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  • My code and guide to living well

    Here is my guideline, or code (aka Cake: Rent a Goalie, one AWEsome show!), or as Gretchen calls them my [ten] personal commandments. These I devised as part of my happiness project and will be the ten criteria I will try to use daily to evaluate the many things that occur, people I encounter, situations…

  • Canceling maciagonline.net, and beginning this

    As the title says. In an effort to save money but keep a blog going and keep up to date with all things wordpress (I use drupal in my research at the uni), I’ve opted to dust off my very old wordpress site here.  So, yay! Just to give a brief update, there are lots…

  • 2011 albums of the year

    With a cleanly shaved face (like a babies bottom, oh dear what have I done!!!) and as with tradition, I bring to you my 2011 top 10 albums of the year. This year was like all others, extremely difficult. Without further adieu… 10: Eddie Vedder, Ukulele Songs The first entry of my top 10 of…

  • 2010 albums of the year

    Well it’s that time again for another “albums of the year” post.  This year I had to sort through over 70 albums, sifted it down to about 17, and then began the most difficult of tasks in reducing that 17 down to only 10.  Clearly 2010 was yet another great year for music so, here…

  • 2009 albums of the year

    As promised, and surprisingly before heading back to the worky-work, I was able to do my annual albums of the year {AOTY}.  As with previous years, this year did indeed pose some challenges.  Starting from a population of over 50 albums, I reduced things down to 10, adding some honorable mentions at the end of…

  • 2008 albums of the year

    Well indeed it’s that time again for my album picks of the year. Last year I thought this task was most difficult but this year, oh my! So, here they are from my top 10 down to my top 1 and most favorite album of 2008. 10: The Buttless Chaps; Cartography. I first heard the…