Dec 2, 2004 | Uncategorized |
MORE SIGNS THAT LET YOU KNOW CHRISTMAS IS COMING The neighbours start baking cookies. Last night, the air in the corridor of our apartment building was thick with the smell of gingerbread. Hot damn! Yet another reminder of YT’s hopeless inadequacy in the...
Dec 1, 2004 | Uncategorized |
Today is the anniversary of Home Rule – the day Iceland obtained sovereignty from Denmark, in 1918. Whoo-hoo! Quick historical briefing, courtesy of Fréttablaðið: “A short and simple celebration took place at the Government House, a brass band played Eldgamla Ísafold...
Nov 30, 2004 | Uncategorized |
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS What the bejesus is happening to The Sopranos?? A full head-scratching episode last night that jumped from one baffling scene to another, beginning with Tony’s girlfriend setting herself on fire and progressing bizarrely to Tony renting a...
Nov 29, 2004 | Uncategorized |
A comment in the editorial of Saturday’s Fréttablaðið caught my eye. It concerned the abduction of the little nine-year old girl last week, the perpetrator of which has not yet been found. “In a large part of the world, including the one which we inhabit, a large...
Nov 27, 2004 | Uncategorized |
Well, Windows XP has come sashaying into my life with all its snazz, flash and (misspent) pizzazz. YT is not impressed. In fact my acquaintance with XP has so far been a brutal disappointment. Whereas me and ME didn’t get along famously, particularly not in the last...
Nov 26, 2004 | Uncategorized |
Was at a gathering last night where somebody described a recent illustration in The Economist (UK), which showed the diagonal lines of the Union Jack being painted over with blue, thereby creating the Icelandic flag – all because Icelanders are systematically invading...
