crappy sunday

Sunday's almost over, woohoo.

It started out great enough, i caught the Toronto Indy race in the AM. It's probably one of the most challenging race on the circuit with it's various surfaces, blind turns and short track. Turn 3 saw a number of crashes and there were a good number of pass contact taking guys out of the race. Twelve laps were under yellow flag though, great for strategy but not great viewing. A canadian , Paul Tracy i think was in the lead for a few laps but he got a bad pit and was screwed the rest of the race, i think he ended up finishing in 16th or so. Danica Patrick finished 6th, good showing girl ! Go GoDaddy car!

Spent the rest of the day renovating my resume. I've been interested in Infographics for a while and had the idea a while ago to do a resume that was based on Infographics. Problem is i don't think you can protray all the detail in an infographic in a clear and easy to understand manner. The other thing i've been reading up on are QR-Codes, with a cellphone you scan a square QR-Code with it's camera and you get a pop up message on your phone, an SMS message, Contact info or you can dump someone to a website. So after tinkering a bit, I found a mobile website hosting company with some easy to use templates, did a bit of graphics work and built a .mobi webpage and created a QR-Code to link to it. I pulled it up on a visiting friends iphone and it looked good so that's good to go.

So what I think i'm going to do is add a 3rd page to my resume that has an Infographic to show in a visual way key points of my resume and have a QR-Code in the bottom corner someplace. That'll take them to a website with some complimentary information but not any info you'd normally give in a resume so if they don't know how to view a QR-Code no loss. But i think having this page will help illustrate I enjoy technology, the internet and coming up with new ways to use it while not taking away from a more classic resume.

Speaking of a classic resume, i was inspired by InfoGraphics to change the formatting. My resume was already not really normal, the first page was a profile statement and a skill summary list broken into six categories. The 2nd page was more traditional, a historical list of employment, dates, description and contributions. The formatting was really nice but it lacked some flair. So i took the content and plopped it into Excel so i can get some precise formatting abilities of working in a table, did a lot of merging of cells and use some color headings. Also changed it up so that it's landscaped, two pages. Overall it's much more pleasing to the eye now I think and it's got some pizaaz .  Then inserted the tables into Word and did a print to PDF too so i have a .doc and .pdf version since some places are particular on what they want.  So this is done and good to go.

The last piece of the new work of art resume will be the 3rd infographic page. I need to doodle something together and figure out the concept first and our own Caesar has said he will help me take the doodle and do something awesome with it.

HOPEFULLY this will gain me some attention. I'm really sick of being an unpaid professional video gamer, that doesn't pay the bills :lol: