Ryan Hellyer

Tag: picsofme

  • WordCamp Lisboa

    I attended/spoke at WordCamp Lisboa 2012 in Portugal. It was a great time. Thanks to Zé and the other organisers for putting on such an excellent event.

    From left: Ryan Hellyer (me), Zé Fontainhas, Siobhan McKeown, Remkus de Vries, Hanni Ross, Daan Kortenbach and Rocío Valdivia
    From left: Daan Kortenbach, Noel Tock, Marko Heijnen, Siobhan McKeown and Remkus de Vries.
    Daan and Roccio engrossed in something fascinating WordPress geekery.
    View of WordCamp Lisboa hackday
    Chilling out during a break at WordCamp Lisboa

  • Public urination in Norway

    I’ve seen some weird shit in my travels around the world, but close to the top has to be the public urination in Norway. I always assumed that going to the toilet in public was something relegated to third world countries, but it seems that it is totally acceptable in Norway! They even have little stall thingies kicking about so you can just flop your wang out and take a slash in the middle of the city. I don’t think they poo in these things, but I didn’t stick around to find out.

    The following photo was taken in the Oslo city center at the finishing line for the Oslo Marathon.

    Thanks to Yelitza Magarita for taking the photo.

  • Ørfiske with Marte

    I went cycling around Ørfiske north of Oslo, Norway with my friend Marte.

    Marte looking stylish on her bike
    Marte and I doing our best to avoid the classic duckface pose

  • Cycling above Maridalsvannet

    More photos from my cycling trips 🙂 This time it’s Maridalsvannet from above.

    Small island in the middle of Maridalsvannet
    Train tunnel beside Maridalsvannet
    Me, above Maridalsvannet
    This was taken on a completely different day and was take at the one of the rivers feeding into Maridalsvannet.

  • Movatn with Ingvild and Marte

    The lovely Ingvild and Marte invited me to stay at their awesome little cottage in the woods. It overlooks a beautiful little lake called Movatn. The weather gods were angry that evening, but we were nice and cosy and downed some yummy seafood chowder followed by a healthy dose of ice cream and chocolate sauce 🙂

    Chilling out with Ingvild

  • WordCamp Edinburgh

    In case anyone wasn’t already aware, I’m somewhat obsessed with a piece of software called “WordPress”. My occupation now revolves around WordPress and I voluntarily let it suck up an inordinate amount of my time. I attended a conference called “WordCamp Edinburgh”, which is by far the biggest WordPress conference I’ve ever attended.

    I met in person many people who I had only known in the online world for many years. It was amusing asking people what differences they perceived between the “real me” and the “virtual me”. Apparently I am much taller in person than they expected. Having the only video footage of you online be of you standing beside a giant does not help with such perceptions it seems 😉

    It was particularly great to finally meet the co-founder of WordPress Mike Little, who it turns out is one of the most modest down to earth people I have ever met.

    WordPress founder Mike Little and yours truly outside the conference venue
    BuddyPress guru Paul Gibbs and design guru Tammie Lister
    Me presenting our talk
    Nadia, Simen, Arnstein, Zozela and Magdalini
    Admin panel extraordinaire Noel Tock giving his presentation
    Core security dude Jon Cave, myself and self-professed screaming code monkey Jeff Ghazally
    WordPress founder Mike Little and domain master Donnacha Mac Gloinn outside the conference venue
    Fellow Metronite Simen Thorsrud

  • Greeks invade Edinburgh

    I made two very awesome new friends whilst in Edinburgh recently, Zozela and Magdalini from Greece. Here are some photos from our travels about Edinburgh including to the Edinburgh Castle.

  • WordCamp Romania

    Geir Ellefsen, Kaspars Dambis, Ryan Hellyer (me), Frederick Townes and Joost de Valk at WordCamp Romania
    WordCamp Romania crew at laser tag
    Geir Ellefsen and Kaspars Dambis
    Kaspars Dambis and Geir Ellefsen having a few beers
    Cristi Burcă (Scribu) and Joost de Valk at laser tag.
    Cristi Burcă (Scribu), Joost de Valk and Ryan Hellyer (me) having a few beers
    Kaspars Dambis, Geir Ellefsen, Joost de Valk and Ryan Hellyer (me) in Bucharest, Romania
    From left: Auras, Geir, Turcu, Scribu, me and Kaspars. Thanks to Joost for the photo.
    From left: Auras, Geir, Turcu, Scribu, me and Kaspars. Thanks to Joost for the photo.

  • Visit from Kerry

    My lovely friend Kerry came to visit me in Oslo 🙂 We went to the local ski jump, but were met with a gloriously wonderful array of fog, fog and a little more fog.

  • Arctic explorers

    Harriet and I, ready to embark on our great arctic adventure into the untouched wilderness of the Tromsø city center.