Comment Spam

Over the time I was away, d4d™ got hit by a small deluge of comment spam. I didn’t know Haloscan was prone to it, but yes, it got some. I almost feel now like I’m popular, or accepted. Most sad, but true.

Anyway, the IPs have been banned, and I’ll keep an eye on it in the future. Must sort out WordPress. Must.

Back

OK, normal service will be resumed – but probably tomorrow. When I said photos on Tuesday, fuck it, I lied. There’s 160 to go through, so it’ll be tomorrow. For now, suffice it to say that the weekend’s been ace, Iceland’s fantastic (but expensive) and I want to go there again. I’m back in Manchester, and putting my thoughts back together, as well as wading through a veritable shitload of email. More later, or tomorrow. But yes, normal service.

Insofar as d4d™ is ever normal.

Update

No, it´s not all rotted shark-meat as food – although you can have that if you want. However, it´s nothing short of “Fuck me dead!” expensive. Four beers – £24. Four bowls of soup with rolls (admittedly, at the top of one of the most fantastic waterfalls I´ve seen – and yes, lots of photos later…) – £36. There´s roughly one hundred Icelandic Kroner to the pound. So in theory the exchange rate is equivalent – 1Kroner = 1p. Then realise that even a pizza will run to 2,000 Kroner. Let alone anything fancy. It´s an expensive place.

It´s still fantastic though. 120 photos so far, and I´ve just dumped the memory card to the laptop, so there´s plenty more to come.

Arrival

Well, a blog entry from Reyjavik. What more could you want. I´m even mastering a bloody Icelandic keyboard. Haven´t quite worked out what´s missing yet, but several buttons have moved. Ah, including the < signs. Tags may get interesting.

Got them. Yes, I´m in love with this place – it´s small, but perfectly formed. Arrived yesterday, and on a coach tour today, with whale-watching tomorrow. Back on Monday. Photos on Tuesday.

Away

No, not a hiatus – but there’s not likely to be any posts here now ’til next Tuesday. The simple reason? I’m away – in Iceland from Tomorrow ’til Monday, but not coming home ’til Tuesday. So there.

I’m sure there’ll be plenty added on Tuesday night, but until then have a good one, and go read the other sites on the blogroll. They’re worth it.

NY-LON revisited

A couple of weeks ago I talked about NY-LON on Channel4, and gave it the benefit of the doubt. It hadn’t started overly well, but there we go, some things don’t. However, we’re now nearly halfway through it and I can honestly say, I’m not going to keep on.

I don’t care if they stay together, or split up. I don’t care who does what, or why. There’s a problem with dramas based entirely around love, regardless of whether it’s seperated by a wall or an ocean, and that is purely that to keep the drama going, it’s going to be much the same in each episode – they’re in love, they argue, they split up, they make up, they’re in love. This kind of drama is fine for a one-off single episode thing, but over time and episodes, frankly it fucking drags. No two ways about it.

So I’m sorry Stuart and Edie, but you’ve lost me. And as a result, so have you, Channel 4.

Marie Celeste

Is it just me, or have the blogging contingent been very quiet today? It seems like hardly anyone I read has updated at all…