2008 Personal Annual Report

Communications

In 2008 I spent a total of (639) minutes on skype. Over the 12 months, I topped-up my mobile phone (13) times which cost me 8500 ISK. I also had several roaming charges for using my phone abroad totaling 3056 ISK, plus the $20 in Skype top-up brings my overall tele-communications bill for 2008 to ~$105

jan: 17 Minutes
feb: 0 Minutes
mar: 127 Minutes
apr: 0 Minutes
may: 11 Minutes
jun: 1 Minute
jul: 35 Minutes
aug: 142 Minutes
sep: 46 Minutes
oct: 73 Minutes
nov: 82 Minutes
dec: 105 Minutes

Entertainment

In 2008 I saw a total of (4) movies in the theatre, read or listened to (15) books, attended (2) concerts and went to (1) sporting event.

Movies include

Books include

Pictograms, Icons and Signs, by Rayan Abdullah, Roger Hubner
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, by Robert Hoekman Jr.
A History of the World in Six Glasses, by Tom Standage
Pitch Invasion: Adidas & the Making of Modern Sport, by Barbara Smit
The Norse Myths, introduced and retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial, by Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst
Long Tail, by Chris Anderson
Freakonomics, by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson
Tipping Point (audio book), By Malcolm Gladwell
Love+Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human/Robot relationships, by David Levy
Flatland, By Edward Abbott
Metamorphosis, By Franz Kafka
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America, Translated By Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson
The Prince, By Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by Peter Constantine

Concerts

Björk, Sigur Rós
Stereo Total

Sporting Events

FH vs. Aston Villa

Travel

In total I spent approximately (1990) minutes in the air on various flights and the following days in different cities. According to my Dopplr profile, my average velocity is 2.14 km/h which is the same as the NASA shuttle crawler

Reykjavík, Iceland: (339) Days
Dublin, Ireland: (7) Day
Copenhagen, Denmark: (2) Days
London, England: (2) Days
Brighton, England: (5) Days
Lisbon, Portugal: (6) Days
Berlin, Germany: (5) Days

Getting to and from work on the bus requires a travel card. For the first half of the year I used my student card to travel for free. When that expired, I purchased 3 month travel cards. I did this 3 times at a cost of 12,700 ISK each.

Several friends visiting in 2008 and we managed to racked-up (1) speeding ticket which I paid 7500 ISK for the infraction.

Throughout the year, I took taxis only twice, totaling a cost of 1180 ISK

This brought my annual general travel expenses to 46,780 ISK which is ~$380.

Conferences

This is a list of conferences I attended in 2008.

Ráðstefna um vefmál 2008
XTECH08
Reboot10
dConstruct 2008
SHiFT08
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
<head> conference
IceWeb08

Guest Book

In 2008, we recorded everyone who stayed at our flat as a guest and for how many nights they had come to visit. We were paid (32) visits by (17) different people staying an average of 3.25 days per person.

Food & Drink

Dinning out

Over the course of 2008, I ate out (26) times in Iceland. We also ordered in food (6) times. This is not counting my trips abroad which I would have eaten out just about everyday.

Milk Meter

Over twelve months I purchased (7) litters of Milk (~1.5 Gallons) and spent 892 ISK (~ $7.35/£5/€5.27 ) on drinking milk.

Atom Feed of Milk Purchases in 2008

Music

At the Start of 2008, my iTunes library had (227) items. At the start of 2009 there were (1218) items in my library, for a change of (991) items.

Photos

At the Start of 2008, my iPhoto library had (1844) images. At the start of 2009 there were (3245) images in my library, for a change of (1401) images.

Guilty Pleasures

This is a short list of some of the things I enjoyed probably more than I should have.