Professional Resume Using Latex Templates

It is really difficult to typeset a resume. If you are already using Microsoft word (there are some word templates here) for this, and you think your resume is looking better, then this post is not for you. For all others who want to  try some thing new, I have found a good source.

Latex Resume Templates

Latex is a cool software to typeset professional looking document. It is the first choice for many. What’s more? It’s free and beats every other software which in the class by long margin. The only problem being, you need to learn the commands, tips and tricks to make the most of it.

 

Professional looking Resume

 

 

I was not happy with my word resume. I have already some experience in Latex. I used Latex to typeset my thesis. It will take time initially to learn, once you know how, then there is not looking back. So, I decided to redo my resume in Latex and I was going through few sites, in search of Latex templates.

• The CV Inn – This site is full of Latex templates. You can download the TEX source and modify to your need. The best ones are here and here.
• Stefano blog – I finally adopted this template. A two column approach made possible with table approach.

I have to tweak few things for my need. I am happy with the output though. If any one is looking for help in setting Latex and errors with the above templates, let me know, I will help you out.

Information is beautiful – My Week

Inspired by Information is beautiful. The site is maintained by David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. And he says,

I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!

Here is my week.

My week in numbers

I have also pulled up power point charts for some presentation. It is always interesting to see the graphs. But I guess, off late I started hating pie charts and bar charts. They are not more than mere spaghetti some times. There is a famous saying -

Information is beautiful, but it is often presented ugly.

Not with this guy for sure.

Few of the favorites -

• Big money spent on this, on that – a relative picture.
• If twitter was 100 people.

It is lot better then stick charts and pie graphs.

Coorg Trip

We have always planned quite a lot of trips but never made it. Eager to set this trend wrong, we decided to make this trip a reality. The biggest blocker was getting a day leave. We planned three day trip instead of two day trip. This meant, we need to take leave on Monday.

Train Journey to Mysore

We started from Chennai central to Mysore. Our train was Cauvery express scheduled at 2130 hrs. We took local train from Velachery to Central. Saurabh supposed to take train from Thiruvanmiyur. We were greedy in reserving a seat next us, but have to give in once crowd started building up inside. We messaged him after getting into train. We said, we are at the last compartment from front or the first compartment from last. I messaged from Faisel’s mobile at every station. When train stopped at Thiruvanmiyur and started with a jerk, there was no sign of Saurabh. For a brief moment I thought Saurabh missed the train. Later he came from the inter-connection of the coaches and we learned that he boarded the adjacent coach. We reached Park town and then central in quick time. Anyone who watched us would have wondered where we are going, because we were carrying big, thick rain coats in our hand, and it was scorching in Chennai. Geetha argued, we should carry this as he belived it is raining heavily in Coorg. Later we realised what a waste carrying it apart from the lonely use of keeping it for your head support in train.

PAN Card Lost + Found

This is a general post.

PAN Card lost

During the cyclone Nisha, my home was flooded and we have to abandon the room for week end. What happened after that was interesting. All of us lost some thing in process. And I lost my PAN Card.

When I searched net to know the process to get my PAN card duplicate, there were no useful information. So, I decided to contact Income Tax department. Asking what should be done on lost PAN card.

The Chaos – Updated

After long time, I am updating the blogroll. I have added two new links.

Karthikeyan

He is my friend and colleague. He writes mostly on technical topics and personal experiences. He has the strange expertise of writing Oracle and Tamil essays at the same stretch. He is one person who has not written a blog entry till about the Mumbai attack. May be because, he was traveling to Madurai at that time.

So, go ahead and read more.

Vijayendran

He is my colleague and sits next to me (not any more ). He got a new mobile which had feature to write blog through his mobile. He started late, but he has written quite a handful of posts. He writes on movies, books and general events.

You can read his blog at here: http://rvijayendran.blogspot.com. And yeah, he has written about Mumbai attacks.

Stray Dogs, Rigor Mortis & Mathematics

In one of the last October month’s outpour’s, we got an unlikely guest at our door step. When I first heard weak howling, I dismissed it to the sound of vicious wind, later it got intense and this time it is not faint, it is a miserable cry. When I checked the door, I found a week old dog pup. Shivering in the cold and rain, it curled itself to the door mat. I felt so pity of it, so got few old clothes and heaved at it for extra warmth. It was already mid night, I left it and slept.

What happened next day was surprise for me. Eager to see, whether the pup was still there, I opened to door to check. There were two dog pups, not one. The new one seemed to be elder to the old one by a day. But both of them were happy. Now, feeding one dog was fine, but two? It was no easy job. But we kept them feeding for quite some time.