LaTeX and typesetting goodness
As I progressively include more and more math in my research and the documents I write become larger and larger, I have been gradually learning the LaTeX typesetting system. Simply put, there is no better method for creating distinctive documents that don’t shout ‘I’m Times New Roman!’, or worse, ‘I’m Comic Sans!’ (don’t even get me started on Papyrus!).
A great way to learn the ins and outs of LaTeX was to put it to use updating my resume, as hand-formatting those beasts in the past has lead me to no end of ‘why can’t Word just do this…’-syndrome. In case you like LaTeX and want to use my resume and cv class, feel free (and browse the repository for my examples). It was originally based on the moderncv class but I found that too casual and clunky, so a good deal has been rewritten and I have not yet updated the license or documentation.