Eclectic Brain Salad

Chris Mills' thoughts on the web, music, life, and more

Chris Mills

Chris Mills

About me

Chris Mills is a developer relationship manager for Opera - he edits and publishes articles on dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com, liaises with the community to raise awareness of Opera and collect feedback, and evangelises about Opera software wherever he can. Outside of work, he is an extremely avid music fan, enjoying playing and listening to a wide variety of music, including metal, folk, hip hop, prog, and more. His main band at the moment is the mighty Conquest of Steel - http://www.conquestofsteel.co.uk.

Fast facts

  • At the movies I like to see:music documentaries, sick comedies, and zombie splatter movies
  • Last movie seen:X Men Origins: Wolverine
  • Music I listen to:Prog, rock, trad metal, death metal, folk, hip hop, electronica, alternative, punk...pretty much anything that isn't trendy rubbish
  • Best album right now:Norma Jean - "Bless the martyr...Kiss the child", First Black Dahlia Murder album
  • Favorite author:Noone immediately springs to mind
  • Last book read:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Best game right now:Fallout 3
  • Favorite sports team:I don't like sport
  • I'm passionate about:Listening to loud music, playing drums and guitar, gaming, travel, my family, good beer
  • I wish I could:make a living out of my music
  • Favorite travel destination:So far? San Francisco and Oslo are joint first
  • On my vacation I..:Toured around Europe with my band
  • If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Blow it all on rock and roll
  • If I were a super hero I would:Turn evil and take over the universe
  • Food I like:Anything, but particularly curry and chinese food
  • I don't like:A lot of things, but I don't want to get all negative here! Lets just say anything that involves fascism and population mind control - draw your own conclusions from there.
  • Software I use:Opera, Camino, Safari, Firefox, Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, Adobe Fireworks, Bluefish code editor, Textwrangler, Audacity, Garageband
  • Hardware I use:24" iMac with bootcamp for Windows, Black MacBook, 10" EEE PC with Ubuntu