So what do you think is the opposite of paper? After this question came up in a family discussion it lead to some deeper thinking. Opposites are often quite obvious: Dark – Light; High – Low; Fat – Thin; Sad – Happy. It seems that with paper for example you can look at various properties […]
Tim McGrath from SackWear just sent me a Land Cruiser T-Shirt. Actually they have 3 types so far. The FJ45lv, FJ55 and FJ40 with other models to come in the near future. Here is a picture of me wearing the “Safari Cruisers” T-Shirt. You can view their t-shirt offerings online at www.sackwear.com (not all of […]
A big earthquake with the magnitude of 6.3 Richter shook our parts of the word yesterday afternoon (2008-05-29 15:46). The earthquake started about 50km south of Reykjavik, where I live. We could clearly feel the earth shaking but no damage here. In Selfoss and Hveragerði, small towns close to where it started, there were some […]
Outsourcing is the current buzz around the net. I’ll start you off with some pointers in how and what I do – just get some details down and add some meat to the bones… Lets be clear about the fact that I am no expert in outsourcing. But simply running my daily live I outsource […]
As you may know I am a great fan of Ken Evoy of SiteSell. His clear thinking and especially his way of transferring those ideas to the people around him is mindboggling. Ken likes to shake up things and get you to look deeper than before. This time Ken set forth a direct attack on […]
Icelandic truckers have been active in protesting the rising cost of fuel as well as recent EU laws on truck drivers rest time. They started earlier this month and have used their big vehicles to close roads. The police have been mild until now. Last Monday the protests got violent when the police started using […]
I was working on 4x4Sale.net and wanted to give an easy access to all 4×4 trucks within a particular US state. I needed a zip code within the state to make searching possible through the BANS system. Since I couldn’t find a single source for this I went through the trouble of collecting this information […]
As you may know, Leifur Eiriksson or Leif Erikson was the first European to discover America. The website www.islendingabok.is (Book of Icelanders) allows me to look up my relation to all Icelanders – living and dead. So I found out how we are related. Our common ancestors Úlfur and Björg where obviously born in Norway, […]
We have never been on a cruise ship before and never to the Caribbean so this is going to be an adventure to remember! Among the thousands of passengers on board the Freedom of the Seas are Webmasters from SBI who organized the cruise on the Caribbean. Freedom of the Seas is currently the largest […]
GPS systems come in various shapes and sizes. In the early days GPS systems were big and bulky and the cost was way out of reach for the average traveler. Now the GPS systems are getting smaller by the year and the functionality and usefulness is constantly growing. The hardest part is now to compare […]