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In the Big Annoyance sweepstakes, computer malfunction is a hands-down winner every time. Which is why I have been stalking around like a raving lunatic for the last couple of hours in a fit of frustration, screaming WHY CAN’T I GET ONLINE??!!! PREQUEL: It all started...

YIPEE!! They let me in! Yours truly has been suffering from itchy finger syndrome today, blog words swishing around in the mind like liquid, desperately needing to be spilled; meanwhile those nice people at Blogspot have spent the day Keeping Me Out. Error messages...

SNOW!! It's what we had this morning, everything covered by a thin layer of the white stuff. There's always something fantastic about the first snowfall of the season, isn't there? Particularly when it's dark outside. Like it's happening for the very first time ever....

Once upon a time the Icelandic nation was blessed with only a single television station - the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Broadcast hours in that faraway time were from approximately 6pm to midnight. There was no television on Thursdays and no television...

So exciting! A volcanic eruption in Vatnajökull glacier! The earth shakes, the ground quakes ... all beneath a layer of ice 100-200 metres thick. How cool is that? Actually flicked on the TV at noon today to catch the extra news report. Killer shots of smoke drifting...

Well, they better start taking Iceland off the top of all those lists of countries with the least corruption. As further details emerge in the oil collaboration scandal, one can only gape in disbelief at the extent of the mafia-like tactics employed by the exalted...

Planned on going on a short errand to Penis mall (a.k.a. Smáralind - wish I had an aerial view picture to stick in here, it looks EXACTLY like one) and got stuck there for over an hour, which was mind-numbing as mall experiences are. Grocery shopping followed, in...

BIG NEWS today - first the headlines: TEACHERS' STRIKE PUT ON HOLD OIL COMPANIES FINED FOR ILLICIT COLLABORATION The details: Indeed, the teachers' strike has been postponed pending the passing of a mediation proposal. State negotiator has introduced the proposal and...

This is awful! I hide my head in shame! Just a couple of hours after merrily declaring my intention to watch the lunar eclipse I completely and totally Forgot! Come midnight my sole concern was getting my butt to bed so I could continue reading the novel I am...

Saved blogging for the evening hours, post- dinner and ER. ER is one of my three must-watch TV shows each week, others being The Sopranos and Six Feet Under - a new series of which started here on Monday night. SFU has some of the most interesting characterization...

Not the most original title, but absolutely spot-on. Temps around the freezing mark plus windchill factor make this a day not to go out without stockings underneath yer jeans unless you want to suffer frozen-thigh syndrome! Set the alarm to wake me this morning as...

Frost on car windshields this morning. The sun is shining, the trees are unmoving, and the sky is streaked with smooth white clouds. Have as yet to venture outside but look forward to it. Hope to get there before clouds cover sky completely, which is what they say...