http://www.smokeybay.net A blog of utter non sense and whatnot. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:00:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/oslo-in-between-aker-brygge-karl-johans-gate/ Finally. I've been waiting that for ages. It's about time to do a break of the office, leave the projects, the meetings and the computer and enjoy some holidays getting some warm southern sun. I've already planned hanging out with M in Oslo if she hasn't forget, ordered a ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/im-off/ Certain people have their period of thoughts at the end of the year along with the famous new year's Eve resolutions. Somehow mine are always during the summer and more particularly at the end of the summer. I guess that's an heritage of the student's years. I'm few days away ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/stuck/ When I stayed an afternoon in a café's terrasse downtown I realize that there was this huge cloud that was behaving weirdly. Of course my focus was on whether it would go west or east and hence hide my precious hydrogen celestial object up there. It was growing and shrinking ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/self-generating-cloud-above-austurvollur/ Stockholm Beat Connection presents a remix contest with Looptroop Rockers (I have never heard of them) for their latest single "Naïve". Both Acapella and Instumental are available for download for this occasion on their website. I think I'm going to give a try for that one. My latest exercise on that ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/looptroop-remix-contest/ Above, the album artwork for the new The Streets, Everything Is Borrowed. It’s due to be in an online store on 15th September. The new album should be a much more positive affair than the previous release, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living. Some of the official blurb says: From ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/the-streets-everything-is-borrowed/ There were concerns that the rapid international expansion of Icelandic banks, financed principally by overseas borrowing, could affect the earnings of Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthings banks as the cost of borrowing has risen during the credit crisis. The Financial times published an article about the situation of the Icelandic banks in ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/icelandic-banks-remain-solids/ I didn't leave the city for Verzlunarmannahelgi (a famous weekend when loads of festivals take places around Iceland). I think I've heard only horrible stuff about it. I already have a clear picture on how Icelanders can turn into barbarians or Vikings, call them as you wish. And being surrounded ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/08/social-management/ I just received one of those phone calls you really don't expect. I was working with a colleague of mine on a diagram. We were deep into technical issues when my phone rang. I just saw the country index and thought of my parents forgetting they are abroad right now. ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/07/a-depressive-phone-call/ Mondays are not the best days of the week. There is worst though: Sundays. Mondays have the benefit to be the first days of a new week made of a series of unknown events. We are rapidly approaching to Verslunarmannahelgin: “Merchants’ Weekend”, celebrated annually during the first weekend of August since ... http://www.smokeybay.net/2008/07/monday-mood/