Do Know Evil – Tyler Mulligan’s Tips and Tricks

With more and more people using the Internet as a way to market themselves or find employees, it’s only a matter of time before it becomes the norm. As an employee, I find it an easy way to convey information about myself to employers. As an employer, it gives me an idea of a person’s professionalism and understanding of the age that I can easily reference or ask a friend for an opinion on.

I present to you my first two pieces of work released under the creative commons, 100% XHTML/CSS valid resume templates.

Resume Template – Modern v1 by Tyler Mulligan

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Released under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License you may freely use and modify this resume template as long as you leave in the credit to me in footer, don’t sell it and release it under the same or similar license (see the link for details).

To use it Download the zip from the Resume link in the footer, extract the files, edit them for your liking and information, upload them to your server and then upload the zip so others may easily download the template from your footer.

Resume Template – Neo v1 by Tyler Mulligan

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Released under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License you may freely use and modify this resume template as long as you leave in the credit to me in footer, don’t sell it and release it under the same or similar license (see the link for details).

To use it Download the zip from the Resume link in the footer, extract the files, edit them for your liking and information, upload them to your server and then upload the zip so others may easily download the template from your footer.

If you make any changes to these, I’d be glad if you told me. The XHTML is pretty solid but I was pretty conservative when it came to the CSS to keep the classic look and feel of a document.

I just trashed my Logitech MX Duo. Which I haven’t even used the mouse with in over a year. Not that I could, I ended up throwing that thing at a wall and stomping it to death after all the frustration it has caused me. Mind you, I’m not normally a violent person but this keyboard duo… boy howdy. The design is flawed in the fact that you have to DOCK THE MOUSE if you want to charge it. That means, you can’t use the mouse when it’s charging. Sure if I was more disciplined in the art of mouse charging, you could argue that the device gives me ample time to charge while I sleep for the usual 6-8 hours… but aside from the fact that getting the contacts to align properly meant 3 minutes of jiggling the damn thing in the dock, why not just use A STANDARD AC ADAPTER? This way, you can use your mouse when it’s charging. Is that not common sense?

A few other things I disliked:

- when it starts dying it exhibits random behavior that initial begs the question “what’s wrong with my computer?” — oh the keyboard’s just dying.. duh!
- the keyboard just started to randomly scroll documents when I was typing (not fun when trying to write final papers)
- KVM compatibility? HAHAHHAHAHA… AHAHAHAHAHA. no.
- You plug a big AC adapter that covers 2 plugs on a power strip, then an additional USB connection (st00p1d)
- don’t press the logout button by mistake!

Things I liked:

- wheel for volume, god yes
- simple, (arguably) helpful media buttons
- the insert, home, page up, delete, end and page down buttons are layed out the classic way

As a programmer, I prefer the classic:

Which my Dell Quiet Key I’ve been using to bridge the gap after I made the decision to abolish the evil MX Duo and receive thy bounty from Trust has .

Anywho, the mainstream keyboards couldn’t seem to meet my expectations. Logitech came close but I don’t think I’ll ever buy Logitech again. I’m happy with my DiamondBack Razer mouse (the copperhead was a joke and broke rather quickly).

After some careful research, I found a brand that fit my picky needs, the Trust Multimedia Scroll KB-2200 which I was able to pick up for a mere $33.50 on Amazon. I’ve been using it for a little over a day now and I’m very pleased.

It feels like a very solid keyboard, I like the way it types. My only complaint is the backspace button. It’s the size of a letter key, that’s going to take some getting used to.