It’s hard to believe, but it was five years ago today that I first began blogging. As a way of celebrating my longevity in the blogosphere I’m going to highlight some of my better posts over the years. You may think this a rather self-indulgent post, but the fact is, unless prompted, most people will not take a look at a blog’s old posts. Regardless, it’s without question a very long post, so you may want to scan the subheadings for a topic you’re particularly interested in. I’ll start by giving you a history of why I began blogging in the first place and move on from there. At the end I’ll select my five favorite posts from the past five years.
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
All December I was excited to write this article. Sadly, my site was disabled around the beginning of the year so this post was delayed until now. Last year at about this time I created this soundtrack for 2007 packed with the twelve songs that impacted me the most during that year. It’s been one of my most viewed posts since, so I figured I’d create a new one for 2008.
I have a few rules when picking the songs for my soundtrack. First, I limit myself to twelve songs, which was done last year somewhat arbitrarily and this year for consistency. Second, I limited myself to one song per artist. This made for a couple of really difficult decisions, as you’ll soon discover. Third, I used both quantitative and qualitative data to make my decision. The quantitative data is how many times I played the song (I used Last.fm to keep these stats). The qualitative data is how the song impacted me personally. And I added one new rule: I didn’t allow myself to repeat a song from my previous soundtrack. Something else to keep in mind is that these songs weren’t necessarily released in 2008; they are songs that impacted me in 2008.
Last night was the season premiere for Scrubs, now in its eighth season and now on ABC. Since this is one of my favorite shows I’m going to be a little self-indulgent and share with you some links, including some spoiler clips from upcoming episodes. UPDATE: Both of the videos in this post are from episodes that have now aired.
Continue reading ‘Scrubs Season Eight (Includes Spoiler Videos)’
Due to a fantastic set of circumstances I was out of the state of Florida for three whole weeks, finally returning to Tallahassee on January 3. For the first week I was in Missouri and for the following two weeks I was in Connecticut. I also took an unintended vacation from the blogosphere, which I’ll address at the end.
