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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ornthordarson.com&amp;blog=11343140&amp;post=1115&amp;subd=othordarson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about <strong>8,400</strong> times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="/2011/annual-report/">Click here to see the complete report.</a></p>
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		<title>2010 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ornthordarson.com&amp;blog=11343140&amp;post=1111&amp;subd=othordarson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health:</p>
<p><img style="border:1px solid #ddd;background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;" src="http://s0.wp.com/i/annual-recap/meter-healthy5.gif" alt="Healthy blog!" width="250" height="183" /></p>
<p>The <em>Blog-Health-o-Meter™</em> reads Wow.</p>
<h2>Crunchy numbers</h2>
<p><a href="http://othordarson.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ornbluehair.jpg"><img style="max-height:230px;float:right;border:1px solid #ddd;background:#fff;margin:0 0 1em 1em;padding:6px;" src="http://othordarson.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ornbluehair.jpg?w=288" alt="Featured image" /></a></p>
<p>The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers.  This blog was viewed about <strong>15,000</strong> times in 2010.  If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 3 fully loaded ships.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In 2010, there were <strong>98</strong> new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 112 posts. There were <strong>642</strong> pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 131mb. That&#8217;s about 2 pictures per day.</p>
<p>The busiest day of the year was February 19th with <strong>434</strong> views. The most popular post that day was <a style="color:#08c;" href="http://blog.ornthordarson.com/about/">About me</a>.</p>
<h2>Where did they come from?</h2>
<p>The top referring sites in 2010 were <strong>lonelyplanet.com</strong>, <strong>640.is</strong>, <strong>facebook.com</strong>, <strong>bakpokaferdir.com</strong>, and <strong>hallamarin.123.is</strong>.</p>
<p>Some visitors came searching, mostly for <strong>hoi an tailors</strong>, <strong>warren fellows</strong>, <strong>hoi an blog</strong>, <strong>maarten troost blog</strong>, and <strong>tiger kingdom</strong>.</p>
<h2>Attractions in 2010</h2>
<p>These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.</p>
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<p><a style="margin-right:10px;" href="http://blog.ornthordarson.com/about/">About me</a> <span style="color:#999;font-size:8pt;">January 2010</span></p>
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<p><a style="margin-right:10px;" href="http://blog.ornthordarson.com/trips/">The trips on this blog</a> <span style="color:#999;font-size:8pt;">March 2010</span><br />
3 comments</p>
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<p><a style="margin-right:10px;" href="http://blog.ornthordarson.com/2010/03/04/the-hoi-an-tailors/">The Hoi An tailors</a> <span style="color:#999;font-size:8pt;">March 2010</span><br />
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<div style="clear:left;float:left;font-size:24pt;line-height:1em;margin:-5px 10px 20px 0;">4</div>
<p><a style="margin-right:10px;" href="http://blog.ornthordarson.com/2010/05/31/how-much-does-it-cost-to-backpack-in-asia/">How much does it cost to backpack in Asia?</a> <span style="color:#999;font-size:8pt;">May 2010</span><br />
3 comments</p>
<div style="clear:left;float:left;font-size:24pt;line-height:1em;margin:-5px 10px 20px 0;">5</div>
<p><a style="margin-right:10px;" href="http://blog.ornthordarson.com/guest-houses-and-hostels/">Guest houses and hostels</a> <span style="color:#999;font-size:8pt;">February 2010</span><br />
2 comments</p>
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		<title>More on Iceland</title>
		<link>http://blog.ornthordarson.com/2010/08/25/more-on-iceland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that there are 1.47 sheep for every human in Iceland and in 1980 there were 3.65 sheep for every Icelander? There are however 4.14 persons per Icelandic horse and about 12 of us per milking cow.  More along those lines here. On another note, here I saw that the Penis museum in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ornthordarson.com&amp;blog=11343140&amp;post=1108&amp;subd=othordarson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that there are 1.47 sheep for every human in Iceland and in 1980 there were 3.65 sheep for every Icelander?<br />
There are however 4.14 persons per Icelandic horse and about 12 of us per milking cow.  More along those lines <a href="http://datamarket.com/data/set/vmv/livestock-1980-2009#display=charts&amp;ds=vmv|2g8=a.7.2/w9b|q=9b&amp;axis2=" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>On another note, <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_18686_the-7-most-horrifying-museums-earth.html" target="_blank">here</a> I saw that the Penis museum in Húsavík was voted the second mosts horrifying museum in the World.  I checked out the museum <a href="http://blog.ornthordarson.com/2010/06/14/hsavk-the-lodano-of-iceland/">in this post</a> and thought it was kind of cute &#8230;or maybe cute isn&#8217;t the right word&#8230; interesting is more like it &#8211; but definitely not horrifying.</p>
<p>My friend Natasha just posted her first piece on Iceland -<a href="http://www.ndb-agency.ch/blog/?p=1311" target="_blank">Iceland 101, Part 1: Reykjavík</a> &#8211; so check that out!</p>
<p>If anyone is interested in Iceland and has some questions just shoot and I&#8217;ll try to answer any questions in the comments.</p>
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		<title>Photos from around Iceland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>othordarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just came back from another great trip around Iceland where we  were accompanied by a great couple from Switzerland &#8211; Bob and Natasha.  Natasha posted a few fantastic photos from the trip on her blog so go check them out by clicking here! I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll post some more stuff from her trip to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ornthordarson.com&amp;blog=11343140&amp;post=1100&amp;subd=othordarson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;">We just came back from another great trip around Iceland where we  were accompanied by a great couple from Switzerland &#8211; Bob and Natasha.  Natasha posted a few fantastic photos from the trip on <a href="http://www.ndb-agency.ch/blog/?p=1141" target="_blank">her blog</a> so go check them out by clicking <a href="http://www.ndb-agency.ch/blog/?p=1141" target="_blank">here</a>!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll post some more stuff from her trip to Iceland, I&#8217;ll be checking her site and will let you guys know.</p>
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		<title>Photos from Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this is the last chunk of photos from our trip to Asia.&#160; Here are the best photos from Thailand together with some Thai music. Filed under: South East Asia Tagged: blogsherpa, Chang Mai, Koh Phangan, Thailand, Tiger Kingdom, zip wire<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ornthordarson.com&amp;blog=11343140&amp;post=1093&amp;subd=othordarson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think this is the last chunk of photos from our trip to Asia.&#160; Here are the best photos from Thailand together with some Thai music.</p>
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		<title>From north to east</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never got around to finish that round trip of Iceland so here it goes.&#160; We left Húsavík on the north coast, the town I grew up in, and headed towards Egilsstaðir in the east where my mother lives.&#160; The drive from Húsavík to Egilsstaðir is about three and a half hours so we weren&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ornthordarson.com&amp;blog=11343140&amp;post=1092&amp;subd=othordarson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never got around to finish that round trip of Iceland so here it goes.&#160; We left Húsavík on the north coast, the town I grew up in, and headed towards Egilsstaðir in the east where my mother lives.&#160; The drive from Húsavík to Egilsstaðir is about three and a half hours so we weren&#8217;t too stressed with time.&#160; To get us ready for the road we got one of my favorite snacks – a deep fried hot dog with heaps of melted cheese a traditional hot dog bread …ummm delicious!</p>
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<p>Our first stop along the way was at Lake Mývatn, a fantastic area around a beautiful lake.&#160; The area has everything to offer – great bird life, beautiful landscape and it is a volcanic hot spot.&#160; A lot of the area is covered with not-so-old lava and we stared off by visiting the church that stands untouched like an island in the lava field where where we stopped to look at little lambs that were playing in the yard.</p>
<p>Next up was a place the group was really looking forward to – “The Crack”.&#160; The Crack is a crack in the earth with a hot stream running through it where you can take a bath.&#160; There are a couple of cracks that you can bathe in but the one we picked has a steep climb down to the stream but once you are down it is absolutely magical.</p>
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<p>After the bath we spent some time checking out the volcanic craters and the “fake” craters that formed when the lava flowed over the lake and evaporating water exploded up through the lava – so they are not really volcanic but impressive never the less.&#160; We also checked out Bjarnarflag, which is a very active hot-spot with many hot springs filled with volcanic mud.</p>
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<p>After Mývatn the drive takes you into the highlands of Iceland where you have to prepared for anything – weather wise – especially since it was still May.&#160; We left Mývatnssveit in a nice but windy weather but as we gained altitude the snow started coming down.&#160; It wasn’t enough to cause us any problems however and we had an easy ride.&#160; We saw a few reindeers on the way – mostly males sporting majestic horns.&#160;&#160; Unfortunately the reindeers were too far away fro a decent photo. </p>
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