About this website
Welcome to www.sveinbjorn.org, the personal website of me, Sveinbjorn Thordarson. For more information on who I am and what I do, you can read my curriculum vitae.
Functions
This website serves as a...
- weblog
- place to download my software
- place to read some of my writings
- personal organizer and bookmarks manager
Standards
This website, both Hypertext Markup Language and Cascading Style Sheets, is fully compliant with World Wide Web Consortium standards and was created from scratch using a plain text editor. It should be viewed in any browser other than Internet Explorer.
Content Management
In this day and age, nobody uses static HTML any more, and I am no exception. This website runs on a dynamic Perl-based CGI Content Management System designed and programmed by myself. It is called Mentat and it is used to operate a number of other websites.
Copyright
Any and all content herein is protected by international copyright law. I am usually willing to have content republished or reused in any medium, but I ask that you request permission beforehand.
Feeds
The news on this website -- mostly in Icelandic -- are available as an RSS feed, for viewing in a newsreader or Safari 2.0 or later.
Linking
Please do not hotlink the images and files contained on this webserver, e.g. by including a file hosted here in any external HTML. Hotlinking is not only a breach of "netiquette": It is bandwidth theft and will be blocked with extreme prejudice.
Hosting
This website is hosted on a private server in Reykjavík, Iceland. The server is a 1.42 Ghz PowerPC Mac Mini running Mac OS X and the excellent Apache Web Server on an 8 Mbit line.
Contact
If you wish to contact me, you can use this page or, alternately, send me e-mail at the following address:
