markuspolus.com

Spam

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:02:50 +0000

The site has been under spam attack since for the last 2-3 months, so I had to take actions. Some 18,000 span comment entries were removed.

From now on your comment will not appear on the site until it has been reviewed and accepted.

This photo was take in Cuba during my trip there last year. It is the typical for the ornament on some 1950s cars still being used in Cuba.

Busy schedule

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:12:03 +0000

Can't say I have much time for personal life these days. There are some pretty interesting stuff in the pipeline and it seems that when you think you have more than plenty to do, the opportunities are flowing in! So I must juggle my time between paid contractor work and unpaid development, marketing and sales work. On top of all of this I am organizing a conference to be held in the second week of August.

I am looking forward to a semi-relaxed weekend. Tonight I will have a lobster meal with a good glass of wine :-)

It's been a while

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:42:20 +0000

It's been a while since I wrote the last blog entry here. Well, I am still alive, but I must say I have been extremely busy building up my software company. Now that the foundations are there, I will just have to sit back and wait for the money to start flowing in. Cash machine! Seriously, I will have to keep up the hard work to make things happen, but things look quite good and there are tremendous possiblities.

If you are interested in electronic business, please visit the Unimaze Software web site. A bit technical at the moment, but later this year, we will shift our marketing focus to solutions. If you would like me to answer some questions regarding this subject, this blog might be the right place to to so. What is e-business? What is it good for? How will it help me? Why is this better than that? I can try to answer these kind of questions.

If I get some feedback on this blog, I might even continue to write here. Since I will not be talking about travel here I guess I will have to change gears. I would rather not bore people with stuff that is too technical, so hopefully I can come up with interesting subjects.

Todo bien

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:53:01 +0000

Estoy vivo, haciendo mi trabajo. No he tenido mucho tiempo para disfrutarme en los ultimos semanas, aunque me quede bien. Estoy a punto de terminar la primera version de mi software y en unas dos semanas puedo mostrarlo.

Todavía hay mas frío y nueve en las montañas alrededor de Reykjavík. Todo tranquilo y mañanas hermosas.

¡Espero que todo el mundo se vayan bien!

Islandia

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:09:25 +0000

So as not to forget my spanish totally I made this crappy poem this morning:

Los colores se brillan a traves de las sombras largas.
El frio me hace escalofrio si no traje bastante ropa.
El viento se calla y el aire es fresca.
Todavia hay otoño en el norte.

Next week I will start classes in speaking spanish, hopefully I will get something out of it.

Þórsmörk

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:15:39 +0000

Þórsmörk (c) Markús Pólus

On the way across Fimmvörðuháls you pass 50 striking waterfalls and when you are about to finish you are rewared with the view of Þórsmörk, a haven between glaciers.

Glacier on Fimmvörðuháls

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:12:25 +0000

Glacier(c) Markús Pólus

This photo is taken on Fimmvörðuháls, the popular hiking route in south Iceland. On the pass you will experience some snow, which usually is not too much late summer.

When there is less snow, there is more going up and down and as long as the snow is not to soft walking across it is not too bad, so it is recommended passing early in the mornings.

Lighthouse

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:04:18 +0000

Lighthouse (c) Markús Pólus

My enthusiasm for photography has awaken. After Costa Rica at the end of last year I regretted not having good camera equipment to take photos of wildlife. Therefore I replaced my Sony Cybershot with a brand new SLR Digital Canon Rebel XT camera and two splendid zoom lenses. I love everything about picture taking and the new digital technology makes it so much more fun than when I had my old Olympus SLR camera.

I always hope to take nice photos and I like to experiment. I also like to get visitors to Iceland, so I will try to impress my friends with pictures from Iceland. Here is the first one specifically with that in mind, taken at Grótta lighthouse on the outskirts of sleep town Seltjarnarnes, a few minutes drive from downtown Reykjavík.

Reality bites the engineer

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:43:53 +0000

Iceland nature, from top of a lighthouse (c) Markús Pólus

I am a problemsolver by nature and I am very good at it. I guess the engineering program at the University of Iceland has implanted the problemsolver genes. As I grow older, I realize my techniques can be applied to daily life.

This way, life becomes a set of tasks which are never a hazzle.

Books, books

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:18:14 +0000

I have a faint of heart for books. I must admit it. Every time I enter a bookstore I return with at least one book in my hand. Some of these books are highly useful and important and after staying on my nightstand for two weeks, end up in myn bookcase where they wait for their useful moments, which never come.

Some books are quite funny, like the one I bought in Gibraltar two months ago about 500 things you can do to make the world a better place. I browsed it a few times, read some of the articles, but now I seem to be too busy to open it.

This weekend I bought 3 books; "Cuentos populares de Islandia", folk stories from Iceland in spanish. This is probably the fifth copy I buy of this book. The others serve good purpose educating people of Central America; now I am finally able to read it and enjoy it. At the same time I bought a highly useful book on vitamins and minerals and what they do you good. If someone sees me looking pale and white, please tell me to go home read it.

Yesterday I could not help buy a book from the "Teach yourself" series. I did not know they had anything else but language books, but there was this books on understanding ethics. The cover said; BUY ME; so I had to walk out with it.

Iceland is cool

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:35:54 +0000

My daughter with kitten (c) Markús Pólus

Well, some things have changed now, since I decided to stay in Iceland at least until the end of this year to work on my projects. My friends offered me to join them and share their office space, so it will be much more fun than working from home or in a faraway place like Spain or Argentina and I will have a chance to discuss my ideas with them. The downside of course, it that I will have to put down the fun-loving thing called travelling for a while and I can not practice my spanish with the locals.

Other than that I managed to hurt my thigh by playing "chase", something an old guy like me should not do. The doctor gave me Ibufen so the pain is gone and hopefully the swollen muscle will be gone in a few days too.

Luckily I had the chance to do some hiking before hurting myself, so I will have some picture of beautiful Iceland coming up soon.

Ciao.

Í nýju ljósi

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:37:10 +0000

Góður vinur minn sagði við mig í síðustu viku að ég væri bara hálfur maður og það færi mér alls ekki. Þennan sama miðvikudag hætti ég að vera bara hálfur maður, merkilegt nokk.

Markús Pólus er sem sagt kominn með kærustu sem er best í heimi og sem betur fer er hún líka með ferðagenið og því verður áfram skrifað um ferðalög hér. Það sem breytist er að þankar verða meira í fyrirrúmi en áður.

Í sól og sumaryl

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:24:38 +0000

Í sól og sumaryl (c) Markús Pólus

Er sem stendur á Kaffi París með milljón brosandi Íslendinga allt í kringum mig. Lyftist aldeilis brúnin á okkar fólki þegar sú gula birtist. Skemmtileg stemming, allir að sýna nýju flottu sólgleraugun sín.

Mér varð sá heiður aðnjótandi að einhver gaur út í heimi bað mig um leyfi að fá að nota þessa mynd í auglýsingabæklinga, vefsíður og fleira. Ég sagði auðvitað bara gjörðu svo vel, hann má sko nota hana eins og hann vill!

Ernest Pólus

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:09:25 +0000

Þú getur litið á mig sem Markó Póló eða Ernest Hemingway. Báðir voru flökkukindur.

Markó Póló var landkönnuður, vissi hvert hann stefndi, en ekki hvað beið hans og hvað hann myndi staðnæmast lengi á hverjum stað. Hans markmið var að kanna nýjar lendur, vinna sér nafn og að veita upplýsingar um nýjar og hagkvæmar leiðir til að flytja aðföng.

Ernest Hemingway var rithöfundur, sem vissi ekkert hvert hann stefndi, en hann vildi fara á nýjar slóðir og setjast að um tíma þar sem honum liði vel. Hann vildi líka kynna sér menningu og menningarheima og hann vildi færa þessa heima til fólksins sem hann skrifaði fyrir.

Nú veit ég ekkert hvert ég stefni né hvað bíður mín.

Kominn á Klakann

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:46:35 +0000

Kominn til Íslands eftir fríið með fjölskyldunni. Við kíktum bæði til Gíbraltar og Marokkó og slöppuðum vel af. Fékk þann óvænta heiður að vera boðið upp í dans af magadansmær í Marokkó og gerði mig af fífli fyrir framan bunka af Íslendingum, alltaf gaman að því :-)