Following on from my post about Ireland’s slowing Celtic tiger economy, today let’s turn to the small nation of Iceland where banking collapse now seems to be triggering increasingly angry protests.
(For an insight into the developing social unrest see this article in today’s UK Guardian newspaper.)
A while back one of my American friends in Japan relocated to Iceland for a dream IT job with an Icelandic computer games company. He’s still there and, as far as I know, still gainfully employed.
Saturday 1 March, spring is in the air and I’m walking to my local train station.
Part of me thinks it’s a crying shame to be working on such a glorious day.
Yet there are benefits too:
- I can take a compensation day off during the week.
- No packed commuter trains at 11am Saturday
My “feeling [...]
Sometimes it’s necessary to give up and let go of ’stuff’.
I’m not talking about “giving up” on a dream – that’s a subject for a different post.
But just look around you at the amount of clutter in the physical space you call ‘home’.
I spent a few days recently doing just that and came across the [...]
As I write this post it’s Tuesday lunchtime Japan time and the World’s stock markets are having another bumpy day – downwards. Anyone with a significant portfolio must be feeling a tad queazy.
And then my thoughts turn to the tech bubble and the Y2K froth of 1999. (Isn’t it amazing how the mind flits around [...]
There’s a lot to be said for having the personal discipline to do what needs to be done.
Take writing this blog, for example.
It’s a key part of staying in touch with my readers, some of whom are also customers, because it helps to build trust and connections over time.
I don’t have a problem with actually [...]
Have you ever woken up after a good night’s sleep, refreshed and ready to go – aware you’d some kind of wonderful dream but not recalling the details?
Me too. It’s a great feeling, isn’t it.
Kindly spare a thought for people who are less fortunate – and have to, for one reason or another, depend on [...]
