Hello World! Day 2

Haven't done any programming stuff today. Depressing... I know. But I did get my resume updated and am trying to learn a bit of inDesign to try to make the layout a bit less Microsoft Word-y (yeah, it's a real term... suck it).

Needless to say I've been fairly productive today. After digging out the old resume template, I got it updated with my Department of Revenue experience and then made a simple 1-page layout to supplement the full on resume. Apparently, in the business world, people barely have time to read the top third of a resume, not to mention a whole TWO pages.

Since I didn't complete any actual coding work, I figure I should at least put down a resource that I've been suckling on (best phrase EVAR) lately. Most people think of the big four when it comes to web browsers: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. If you're ever craving something a bit different and a bit more forward thinking (than IE), you need to check out Opera (http://www.opera.com/).

The first Opera product I actually used was their web browser for my Wii when it first came out. Fantastic? Nah... but it was functional, which for the time being on the Wii was definitely the best you could hope for. Also used their mobile browser on my old Blackberry Curve and on my HTC Evo as well. Well, apparently they have a full featured browser for a computer too (who knew?).

The real kicker for Opera, though, is their education material. While Mozilla and Google have taken a fancy towards modern web standards, Opera has made it an obsession. Not an obsession where you have to come home and touch every fork in your silverware drawer. It's more like a creating an art portfolio of your life's work in a shoebox diorama. A little crazy, but there's definitely some genius behind the obsessiveness.

Check out their web standards curriculum at http://www.opera.com/developer/wsc/ and see what I mean.   Even if you couldn't give 5 shits about HTML (see what I did there?), you can at least learn a bit about the internet and get a general idea of how it works (or should work if people wouldn't fucking stylize text in their HTML coding).

Also, I photoshopped Reptar's head onto Winston Churchill's body in that photo of him and Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta conference today. Hell yeah...