Hi, my name is Finnur. I have spent a good chunk of my life online. I'm a parallel entrepreneur, intrigued by social media. Like my coffee strong and whiskey from the cask. More →
Family, Premier, Fame and Projects
Last weekend was 4 days and 4 individuals having lots of fun in London. Gulla brought her girls over for the firs time and we did everything! Zoo, Science Museum, Hairspray musical, London eye, Hyde Park, double decker busses, tube and cabs. It was all good fun and we had some great moments and laughs. [...]
Read more →@media rant
Now I remember why I didn't want to go to this conference in the first place. Disclamer: Those of you who know me know that my glass is mostly half full and it takes a lot to frustrate me, but today I just have to share this. 2 years ago I attended the first @media [...]
Read more →Web Conference fatigue
I'm at the @media conference, I did not get a ticket but there was one extra floating around the office so what the heck. The thing is, at the moment I feel there is a bit of a low in the web Hype. We all understand the importance of accessibility, css, standards, social web etc [...]
Read more →Icelandic names – lesson 101
I recently helped a friend of a client who was struggling with the pronunciation of the name Páll. The quickest way of course being to record it on YouTube. Today I got a similar request from someone I don´t know about how to pronounce my own name; Finnur. In my reply I asked if I [...]
Read more →Mugison – Best thing since salted cod
I went to see Mugison kick off the European tour here in London on Thursday. It was a tiny venue down by Elephant and Castle and was organised as some kind of a PR gig. It didn't matter though, the band is rock solid after the Canada trip and you could see they where having [...]
Read more →Rock star
I'm in a band now. It is called Moss, we have a Japanese guitar player and a Brit on base. Yesterday we had the first rehearsal and it sounded pretty good. The plan is to do a proper gig in 4 weeks time. A roadie at the Joint had a Mínus T-shirt on, so now [...]
Read more →New VYRE site
Just launched the new VYRE site, it is totally different working on you own site as opposed to client projects. I am pretty happy with the grid layout, information architecture and a couple of geeky features like the carousel and integration with SalesForce.This calls for a celebration!!!
Read more →I was blind but now I can see
When cycling into work this morning I passed a building site and my eyes filled up with glass and rocks and shit and I had to make emergency maneuvers not to hit a car. Not really, but I had two grains of sand in one eye and could not blink it out. So I found [...]
Read more →News from Zim
It is frightening to read about the situation in Zimbabwe. This blog has some first hand stories which need your attention. Mugabe has to go, he rigged the elections but it was not enough so he just kept the results for himself. Now there is going to be another run but not before he has [...]
Read more →Photos from the Zambezi now online
I uploaded some 90 photos last week. 05.05.2008 23:14 Days of wine and roses (and rain) To busy chilling with my woman to update this blog. If it doesn't stop raining soon I´m moving south. Like south of the equator.
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