Technoless

Had a serious case of Techno Blues yesterday. So serious in fact that the laptop had to be carted off to the shop so all those supernice Og Vodafone techie people could operate on it. Which they have – and now everything is hunky dory except for one thing...

FamousYoungIcelandLovingAmericanBritsWho…

In the news: Liv Ullmann is here to scout around for locations to shoot a film she’s directing, based on a novel by Icelandic golden boy Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. Never heard of him? Well then how about Olaf Olafsson? No? Okay, well, I’ll tell you more about him...

Sauna Zen

Right. I shall now proceed to tell you why my cottage country is THE MOST FABULOUS PLACE [for rest and relaxation] in all of Iceland. It’s because of this: Seen from another angle…: And another…: [No, I do not know that man. No, it is not EPI.] Can you guess what it...

Cottage country

Here in Iceland we have a groovy system: labour unions buy summer cottages that their members can rent for a nominal fee. [That’s pretty much every salaried employee, because if you work for someone, you belong to a union]. It’s a pretty cool deal. I’ve been going to...

WARNING: Rant coming up

Oh, f’rgodssakes! Here I had this blog post all carved out with pictures and everything – and when I go to upload the pictures in imagecave so that I can resize and post them, I get stonewalled. [cue nasal-sounding computer-generated voice]”Your...