I was invited by Conor McBride to give a talk MSFP 2008 in Reykjavik. I've put the slides online here . While rehearsing I wrote a 'script' that I've put here . That's not actually what I said but I felt I needed to write something out beforehand just so I could make sure I had an appropriate amount of material. Apologies for the silly chatty style in a written document but that's the sort of thing that came to mind while sitting in a hotel room. I got to meet in person a bunch of people whose papers I'd read including Thorsten Altenkirch, Tarmo Uustalu and Jeremy Gibbons.I had an opportunity to explore around Reykjavik so I also put some photos online, including a terrible one of Conor and Tarmo Uustalu (sorry!). By curious coincidence I bumped into, and got to hang out with, an old work colleague as well as a friend of the person who sits one office down from me at work, and Eben Moglen . Small world.