Bus riding, culture jamming, ALDI shopping, theology popping hack philosopher wannabe.
Friday 20 March 2009 at 07:01 am
Thanks to everyone in the Maemo community for voting me into another term of the Maemo Community Council. I’m honored to have had Dave Neary‘s nomination and I’m honored to be serving the community once again.
There is a lot happening for Maemo during the next six months. If you’d like to participate, please join the conversation on the maemo-community mailing list!
Monday 02 March 2009 at 09:15 am
After the nominations were opened for the next Maemo Community Council, I wasn’t completely sure that I’d jump back into the mix. While I’ve had an extremely rewarding time being a part of the Council, these things — as you may know — have a tendency of becoming more than originally expected. To explain further, I must divulge a little personal information.
(more)Monday 02 March 2009 at 08:52 am
If you haven’t seen it, check out the spec for the latest iteration of the Maemo user interface. It’s pretty slick and I can’t wait to install the new SDK so I can give it a spin!
Monday 02 February 2009 at 8:55 pm
My son may not be starting as early as Jaffa‘s, but it’s never too late…
Tuesday 06 January 2009 at 2:13 pm
I've been playing around with xFruits -- a new service that allows users to convert RSS feeds into other forms (like RSS to PDF) and vice versa (like email Inbox to RSS). It's pretty darn cool. One of the features is called VocalFruits, which turns text-based RSS feeds into podcast feeds. Listen to this blog's "podcast" feed "here":http://vocalfruits.com/timsamoff/wd7602/.Tuesday 06 January 2009 at 11:28 am
I’ve been playing around with xFruits — a new service that allows users to convert RSS feeds into other forms (like RSS to PDF) and vice versa (like email Inbox to RSS). It’s pretty darn cool. One of the features is called VocalFruits, which turns text-based RSS feeds into a podcast feeds. Listen to this blog’s “podcast” feed here.
Tuesday 30 December 2008 at 11:19 am
A few days ago, I mentioned that I’d be trying to fix the broken commenting functionality on this blog.
(more)Thursday 25 December 2008 at 06:45 am
Yeah, the comments still don’t work. Maybe next year.
Tuesday 16 December 2008 at 10:03 am
In an attempt to fix some of the odd commenting issues that have been happening around here, I’m going to be upgrading the underlying blog software to the latest PivotX release. Because of this, this blog may experience some downtime while I try to upgrade the style templates to match some of the new technology.
Ye are henceforth warned.
Saturday 13 December 2008 at 3:21 pm
So, if you haven’t seen it via Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, or — heaven forbid — word-of-mouth, I’ve recently completed my latest Portfolio Reel…
(more)Saturday 29 November 2008 at 09:43 am
Last year, it snowed on November 21st. We’re eight days later this year. Brrr!
Friday 21 November 2008 at 2:48 pm
The commenting system for this blog has been down for a while now — don’t know why. Unfortunately, I don’t really have the time to look into it. If you need to contact me, please do so by using the Contact form by clicking “Contact” above (or, you can email me at tim at samoff dot com).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Monday 10 November 2008 at 11:11 am
It came as a surprise this morning when I learned that I was laid-off. It’s unfortunate, but with the recent buy-out, understandable. Anyway, if you’re looking to hire a designer/filmmaker/user experience/writer/musician sort of fellow who is creative, innovative, passionate, self-motivated, easily adaptable — someone who makes his bosses look good… Then I am your man. Have a look at my LinkedIn profile, or become friends with me on Facebook. I’ve got over twenty years experience and I still love what I do.
(Also, I understand that this is not Maemo-specific, but I wanted to inform the community that I’m available — thanks for understanding.)
Monday 03 November 2008 at 08:10 am
I’m a little late in posting this but, I only just got the Google Alert the other day.
While at c-base, in Berlin, a few video testimonials were shot of some fellow Maemo community members and I. The idea was that the community may be able to share a perspective on what Maemo is that would be useful to Nokia corporate.
(more)Thursday 30 October 2008 at 12:38 pm
Yesterday, I sat in line for over two and a half hours so that I could vote absentee. I sent the absentee ballot forms in the mail almost a month ago, but I still hadn’t received anything. So, in order that I could vote (since I’ll be in North Carolina next week), I headed down to basement of the Plaza Library and waited my turn.
(more)Saturday 25 October 2008 at 2:46 pm
Here’s a quick video (MP4) of an MRI that I had on Friday showing various angles (and layers) of my right hip).
(more)Friday 26 September 2008 at 2:46 pm
Imagine meeting a distant family member — one whom you may have known something about, but never actually had the chance to meet. The feeling must be extraordinary: seeing a stark resemblance (if not with you, with someone else in your family), sharing similar likes and dislikes (maybe even common paths taken or avoided throughout life), reminiscing about completely disconnected times, but having an odd sense that the two of you are not as different as you might have expected… Now, imagine doing this with almost three hundred people.
(more)Wednesday 17 September 2008 at 04:30 am
At nearly 40,000 feet and almost 600 miles per hour, the N810, my faithful traveling companion, did not let me down.
(more)Monday 15 September 2008 at 1:41 pm
My presentation is finished (will be posted after Maemo Summit) and loaded onto a thumb drive, I’ve got the camera batteries all charged up, I’m almost packed… All I have to do now is get on the plane. Which doesn’t happen until about 1:20p tomorrow.
(more)This is the 'Bare Bones' template for PivotX. It's not much to look at, but it's a good start to write your own templates. It contains most of the usual tags you'd like to have in a template, with a minimum of CSS/HTML.
You can change this text by editing the file '_sub_about.html' in your pivotx/templates/bare_bones/ folder. You can do this by directly editing the file, or you can go to 'Manage Media' » 'Templates' in the PivotX interface.
To change the links in this list, edit the file '_sub_link_list.html' in your PivotX's templates folder. You can do this by directly editing the file, or you can go to 'Manage Media' » 'Templates' in the PivotX interface.