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Street Children
You’ve problem heard of the global issue of street children, right? Well, Iceland has them, too. However, these are not helpless, wee bairns left to fend for themselves in the harsh sub-Arctic climate by their parents; rather, they are quite … Continue reading
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Candlelit Breakfast
There are far too few places in this world where one can enjoy a candlelit breakfast, whilst watching the sun rise at 11:15. Who the hell needs daylight, anyway? I bought two albums by Ragnheiður Gröndal today, after listening to … Continue reading
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Halfway Home
We made it to Reykjavík early this morning, after a surprisingly short 4h 40m flight from Boston. Eloïse shocked us by sleeping all the way there; then by not grumbling when she had to walk off the plane, through passport … Continue reading
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Another year, another €
It’s been some time since my last entry (an obviously true statement, if ever there was one). After Fenella, Tim and the junior Oatleys departed, there was nary a moment to spare before we, ourselves, embarked on the annual Christmas … Continue reading
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New version of MythTV grabber
Another thing that kept me busy over the last few days was enhancing, tv_grab_nl_upc, my program for fetching television guide data for UPC’s digital cable network in The Netherlands and outputting the results in XMLTV format. Of all the stuff … Continue reading
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