The Nokia N9 is finally out in the public! This is where I put my blood and sweat in the last three years, and it’s been quite a ride. I’ve met and worked with a lot of great people and some not so great ones, had my hair turn gray, seen and made a lot of mistakes and – I hope – learned a lot. This has certainly been the hardest job I’ve ever encountered and right now I feel that anything else after it will seem easy, if not a little boring.

Was it worth it? Hell yeah.

P.S.: Coming next: Flexo for N9…

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I’ve often thought that Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, got the ideas for some of his comics from a disgruntled Nokia employee, but now I start to worry that the guy is actually sitting very close to me. Last week I had exactly the incident described in today’s strip, although with less dramatic consequences: having just moved to a different floor, I had forgotten to change my printer settings and printed a couple of pages to the wrong place. Mr. Adams, you owe me royalties!

Well, the iPod Touch, that is. I got it as a farewell present from my former colleagues (thanks guys!) and I’m already in love with the damn thing. The interface is so well made that I could spend hours just flipping through album covers and moving icons around for the mere fun of it. And I can record TV shows on the mac with EyeTV, transfer them to the iPod and watch them on the way to work, which is the most sensible implementation of mobile TV I’ve seen so far (of course you can do the same with most phones these days, but it’s the screen size that makes the difference).

Now if only there was something to watch…

I’m writing this post using MaemoWordPy, a blog client for Maemo/Nokia Internet Tablet that seems to work nicely enough. The photo below is one of the stock images that came with the N810, as I couldn’t find a decent subject to shoot with the built-in camera.

Today I received the toy my work is going to be centered around starting from this month. If you don’t know what it is, have a look here. What the link doesn’t say however is that this “full web 2.0 experience” is powered by Linux. My first experience with Linux dates back to 1994, but the earliest proof of it is this post from 1995. If you don’t know italian, in there I’m sheepishly asking how to configure the startup applications in the window manager (which I think was fvwm at the time).