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Another, less colorful, way to put this is "don't put anything on your resume you don't want to do more of".

I know folks who have taken old technologies (perl, ASP.NET) off their resume so that they don't get approached by employers looking to hire for technologies they don't want to work in.

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Yes, one such example here.

A golden rule is to fit your resume into one or two pages max.

Have the private copy as big as one wants, however take the effort to sell oneself to the actual position.

HR is looking for reasons to throw away resumes out from the pile, anything that makes their work harder will contribute for that.

Yeah my rule when considering taking on a freelance project is ‘do I want to become an expert in this, and do I thus want my phone to ring for this for the next 2 years?’

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