Archive for the ‘Work’ Category

Comic of the week: Dilbert is my coworker

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

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!

I’ve got the Touch

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

an iphone without the phone

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…

Posting with MaemoWordPy on N810

Monday, May 19th, 2008

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.