Finnur Palmi Magnusson aka Gommit

Does this not bother any of the standards aware geeks out there? If Twitter is a micro blogging service, why can't I embed links in my tweets. At the end of the day, it's HTML. So rather than posting:  Just had beer with Erik and Marcus Bonfante, he is a brilliant musician. I have to [...]

I have touched on this topic a few times and this tweet from Geir linking to Obama's idea for an US CTO sparked a short Googling session with the following results. Denmark has had an IT minister since 2001. The ministry is responsible for the following areas: Research, Information technology (IT), Innovation, Telecommunications, University educations. [...]

During these latest and worst of times (seinustu og verstu) it's very important to pick up some basic skills to increase your fighting chance in the depression. I have always dreamt of making cheese, and let's face it, If you can make cheese your are pretty much covered. Everyone loves cheese and you can exchange [...]

I wonder how much this guy got paid for plastering his car with Icesave and what impact it is having on his bottom line. I recorded this in my street this morning:

I created this nifty tool for us Icelanders living in the UK wondering what the exchange rate is at the moment.

Do the bankers even care about us out here? Luckily my income is in the UK, but my better half can't get her Icelandic currency transferred out here. If you get through to the bank, the answer is "Sorry dear, you just have to wait". So we use the plastic and pray for a good [...]

Everybody needs good neighbours, but mine are better because I can get on their wifi across the street :p Moved in today and it feels like home already. I just got back from a welcoming dinner with said neigbours, Lindsay and Hjörtur, at my new local the Kings Arms. They make a mean Rib eye [...]

I like changes and currently there are a lot of extremely positive changes in my life. I have my woman with me every day now and even through we have spent most of our time searching for a new place to live it has been great. We where thinking about moving to Richmond but after [...]

I'm back in London after having helped Gulla pack her things and paint her flat and we are now living together in Enfield road. The plan is then to move again at the end of this month to Richmond. Recently I have been writing a white paper on the use of social web applications within [...]

Tonight is our 3 year anniversary and I can truly say those have been the best years of my life. It will only get better as I'm going to Iceland on Tuesday and bringing my sweetheart with me back to London. From now on, this remote relationship stuff is over so I'm looking forward to [...]