02009 Personal Annual Report

Communications

In 02009 I spent a total of (335) phone minutes on skype. Over the 12 months, I topped-up my mobile phone (10) times which cost me 9500 ISK.

jan: 35 Minutes
feb: 71 Minutes
mar: 70 Minutes
apr: 0 Minutes
may: 1 Minutes
jun: 32 Minute
jul: 42 Minutes
aug: 0 Minutes
sep: 61 Minutes
oct: 23 Minutes
nov: 0 Minutes
dec: 50 Minutes

Entertainment

In 02009 I saw a total of (3) movies in the theatre and read or listened to (23) books.

Movies include

The Wrestler
Decoding Iceland
From Turf Cottage to the Cover of Time: The Dramatic Life of Holger Cahil

Books include

Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide, By Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, by David Weinberger
Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
21: Bringing down the house by Ben Mezrich
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few
The Drunkard's Walk: how randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinow
Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss (Audio Book)
Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkins (Audio Book)
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Audio Book)
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins (audio book)
A round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Free by Chris Anderson (audio book)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin (audio book)
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life by Len Fisher
Purple Cow - The prize inside by Seth Godin (Audio Book)
The (Mis)behaviour of Markets: A fractal view of Risk, Ruin and Reward by Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers by William Poundstone
Íslensk sjónabók, Ornaments and Patterns found in Iceland
The Paradox of Choice, why more is less by Barry Schwartz
Predictably Irrational by Dan Arely
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim, Renée Maborgne
Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State by Steven Heller
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, Translated by Meredith McKinney
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
The image of the city by Kevin Lynch

Travel

In total I spent approximately (1780) minutes in the air on various flights and the following days in different cities.

Reykjavík, Iceland: (334) Days
Berlin, Germany: (1) Day
Wismar, Germany: (3) Days
Lueven, Brussels: (2) Days
Brighton, England: (10) Days
London, England: (3) Day
Glasgow, Scotland: (8) Days
Lisbon, Portugal: (4) Days

Ecosystem

All this travel equated to approximately 2,407 kg CO₂. There were also several short train journeys and a EuroStar trip from London to Brussels which are not accounted for.

Conferences

This is a list of conferences I attended in 02009.

SVEF half-day conference and Web awards
CeBit
Rewired State
Twiist.be
dConstruct 2009
999 Conf
SKÝ lunch presentation
Codebits 2009

Museums

In order to gain culture points, this is a list of museums visited in 02009.

Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Music

At the Start of 02009, my iTunes library had (1218) items. At the start of 02008 there were (1440) items in my library, for a change of (222) items.

Photos

At the Start of 02009, my iPhoto library had (3245) images. At the start of 02008 there were (4060) images in my library, for a change of (815) images.