About

About this site

The orginal purpose for this website was to learn HTML coding. I wanted to learn old style HTML coding "by hand just using a text editor", not using modern application specified for web design.

My computer interest can be trased back to eighties when I got my first computer, it was Sinclair Spectrum 48k, then 1988 I bought a second hand BBC Master Compact computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. In the year 1989 I bought a Archimedes A310 computer, also made by Acorn, with RISC OS operating system and ARM processor. Since then I have been using RISC OS operating system on Acorn hardware and later Raspberry Pi computers and Titanium hardware specialy made for operating system for my personal usages. My newest computer is PineBook Pro laptop using both RISC OS and LINUX operating systems.

I decide to use RISC OS and related software to develop my HTML skills and create this homepage.

When I was creating this homepage I got more ideas about material that I could put on the site. The main idea is to put in information about software that I have created, mainly BBC basic programs for RISC OS but also Python programs for Linux operating system. I will also add information about various projects that I have made by 3D design and 3D printing.

Then the idea is to put various information about asset- and maintenance management on this site.

Time must reveal how much material I'm able to put on this site.

The Author


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Name: Gaukur Gardarsson

I grow row up in a small fishing town, Grundarfjordur, on vest site of Iceland. When I was 22 year old I moved to Kopavogur, witch is the biggest town in Iceland and next to Reykjavik the capital city of Iceland.

I have been working in industrial environment since 1995, related to maintenance and asset management, first as an Engineer in fish processing plant with responsibility for maintaining the process equipment and refrigeration systems. In January 1999 I start working in aluminium industry as Maintenance Technician at Rio Tinto Iceland Ltd. In September 2000 I became a leader for the maintenance metrology and since beginning of year 2007 I have been working as a Maintenance Manager at the aluminium plant.

Formal education

  • Graduated as Marine Engineer from the Engineering College of Iceland in 1995.
  • Graduated as a Mechanical technician from the Technical University of Iceland in 1999.
  • Graduated with MSc Maintenance Engineering & Asset Management degree from The University of Manchester in 2007.