This post in three months overdue. My original plan was to finalize my list of 40 books to read before my 40th birthday on my 30th birthday, so that I would have exactly ten years to complete them. But then life happened. Anyway, the list. (Those books I’ve read are bold.) J.M. Barrie – Peter [...]
Category Archives: Lists
What I've Been Playing
April 1, 2010 – 23:28
The first quarter of 2010 is over. What have I been listening too? Of course, Last.fm knows the answer. Here’s the top 20 with the number of plays in parentheses: Daniël Lohues (136) Bløf (110) mr. a balladeer (106) Melissa Etheridge (97) Acda en De Munnik (93) Van Dik Hout (89) Savatage (83) Bruce Dickinson [...]
Last Post of the Decade
December 31, 2009 – 14:16
2009 is almost done, so here is my annual best of list. (see also: 2003, ’04, ’05, ’06 and ’07, ’08) I won’t bore you all with a best of the past decade list, but there will be some website statistics later on. Watch your fingers, and I’ll see you on the other side. Music [...]
Ten tips for successful blogging
July 7, 2009 – 23:09
Lately, I’ve been a bit busy. Too busy to write much, either with this site’s impending redesign (coming along nicely), playing beach volleyball (I suck), sending tweets instead of making stuff up for my blog—or I just couldn’t be bothered. So, now that I found a hole in my schedule, I thought I might just [...]
New music
June 29, 2009 – 22:47
We’re about halfway through 2009, and I’ve added 52 albums to my collection. That’s not counting free (and legal) downloads, singles, EPs and vinyl (which I can’t play anyway since I’m still waiting for my pick-up to return). Of those 52 albums, 17 were released this year, and my top five from those goes a [...]
