No, not Kitchen Stadium. Today, August 22, is the five-year anniversary of the day I started at Avvenu in 2005. At the time it was a tiny, 25-employee Internet media-sharing startup in Palo Alto. In December 2007, we were acquired by Nokia and our Nokia start dates were backdated to match our Avvenu start dates. [...]

No, not Kitchen Stadium.

Today, August 22, is the five-year anniversary of the day I started at Avvenu in 2005. At the time it was a tiny, 25-employee Internet media-sharing startup in Palo Alto. In December 2007, we were acquired by Nokia and our Nokia start dates were backdated to match our Avvenu start dates. So Nokia just reminded me that I’ve been working for them for five years.

I don’t like working for large companies. I was definitely going to stay with Nokia for two years, to fully vest my retention bonus. That was December 2009, and nine months later I’m still there. The huge multinational corporate atmosphere is stifling. It’s soul-deadening. And that probably explains my lack of ambition or energy to start searching for a new job, preferably at a tiny Internet startup.

This anniversary, I’ve now resolved, is going to be the kick in the pants that I need to get my resume in order and get the job search going.

My phone (HTC Mogul) is not just a phone, it's my mobile information/connection hub. Which sounds all hackneyed and Web-2-point-oh but it's true. Without the phone I have no addresses, no phone numbers, no text messaging or Twittering, no Google, no maps, no weather… it's awful. I complain a lot about the miserable experience of [...]

My phone (HTC Mogul) is not just a phone, it's my mobile information/connection hub. Which sounds all hackneyed and Web-2-point-oh but it's true. Without the phone I have no addresses, no phone numbers, no text messaging or Twittering, no Google, no maps, no weather… it's awful. I complain a lot about the miserable experience of Windows Mobile but the truth is it's the best available option for me right now. I'd love an iPhone–if Apple would release one that works on the Sprint network (CDMA/PCS) with a slide-out hard keyboard. I'd love a Nokia N97–same caveat. Neither are likely in the near future.

In conclusion, a day without my phone sucks.

Raymond Chen writes: The great thing about priorities is that you can always go one higher: Over the past few years, I’ve seen a shift in the labelling of priorities in planning documents. A new priority has been introduced: Priority Zero. Nobody has explained to me what Priority 0 means, but I assume somebody invented [...]

Raymond Chen writes: The great thing about priorities is that you can always go one higher:

Over the past few years, I’ve seen a shift in the labelling of priorities in planning documents. A new priority has been introduced: Priority Zero. Nobody has explained to me what Priority 0 means, but I assume somebody invented it to emphasize that the feature is even more critical than priority 1. Mind you, I’m not sure what could be more important to a project than ‘If we don’t do this, we’re all fired.’ Maybe ‘If we don’t do this, the earth will explode.’

As you might expect, priority inflation has a trickle-down effect. People whose features had been assigned priority 1 said, ‘Hey, how come my feature isn’t priority 0? It’s just as critical as that other guy’s feature.’ Soon, everything that was priority 1 got reclassified as priority 0. Nature abhors a vacuum, so all the priority 2 items got reclassified as priority 1, and the priority 3 items got reclassified as priority 2.

This was common towards the end of my days at ISS. We were bombarded with “level zero” issues that had to be fixed now, and there was plainly nothing more important. Except the ever-growing list of other “level zero” issues. Luckily here at Nokia we have a pretty clear P1-P3 system that doesn’t show any signs of inflation.

11:48 After my tweet yesterday afternoon and the quick replies, I had a great idea. Unfortunately it’s already been done. twitter.com/z0rk # 12:58 Going to lunch. # 13:10 Nokia caf_ inexplicably closed for lunch today so I’m at Carl’s Jr. # 13:40 Back from lunch, food coma zzzzzz… # 14:50 Checking Olympic broadcast schedule at [...]

• 11:48 After my tweet yesterday afternoon and the quick replies, I had a great idea. Unfortunately it’s already been done. twitter.com/z0rk #
• 12:58 Going to lunch. #
• 13:10 Nokia caf_ inexplicably closed for lunch today so I’m at Carl’s Jr. #
• 13:40 Back from lunch, food coma zzzzzz… #
• 14:50 Checking Olympic broadcast schedule at www.nbcolympics.com. I can DVR two HD and two SD simultaneously – will it be enough? #
• 15:04 Meeting time. Today run by new guy who occasionally needs to be reminded that I’m not in his chain of command. #
• 19:07 You never know where you’ll see an Obama bumper sticker: www.thenewargument.com/?p=239 #
• 20:26 Experimenting with 1TB eSATA box on DirecTV DVR. If it works, should be enough to comfortably buffer Olympics. #
• 20:26 Also doing some MouseStation recording. #

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It’s been a long hard six months and it’s not over yet, but we’re getting close! Files on Ovi now available in beta: Files on Ovi, which provides access to files on remote computers, is the latest Ovi service and is now available in beta form. After installing a software ‘connector’ on your PC you [...]

It’s been a long hard six months and it’s not over yet, but we’re getting close!

Files on Ovi now available in beta:

Files on Ovi, which provides access to files on remote computers, is the latest Ovi service and is now available in beta form. After installing a software ‘connector’ on your PC you can then access files on your computer from any web enabled device (e.g. another PC or your phone). Files on Ovi is the results of last year’s acquisition of Avevnu by Nokia.

Nokia Launches Files On Ovi Beta (MobileBurn):

Files on Ovi also offers Anytime Files, with online storage of 10GB or 30GB, each with a monthly subscription fee. When users sign up for Files on Ovi, they get 60 days free of 10GB storage. Anytime Files are available even if the desktop connector software is not running, making it perfect for important documents and other files.