Category Archives: Lists

Ten tips for successful blogging

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

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 [...]

Planning ahead

So, I’m on Twitter, right? And at the end of the year, I like to do this pretty pointless thing with lists, right? So, a list of my year in tweets might be a fun, no? Well then, wouldn’t it be smart to start shortlisting tweets now, instead of going through them at the end [...]

Link dump sunday

Presented without further comment. On account of my thing for libraries: if I ever visit Yale university, I need to check out the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Independent.ie lists the 10 best bookshops in the world. The title says it all: 10 Christ-like Figures Who Pre-Date Jesus Pixar’s thirteenth movie will finally be [...]

Link dump sunday

After spending most of the afternoon drinking beer, you shouldn’t expect me to do more than post some links. While I’m not a big fan of train models, I can definitely see the appeal of this portable miniature train set. For if I ever feel the need to put up a birdhouse. A very sexy [...]