Well, that was a year…
Top Music in 2010
(play count of the last 12 months according to last.fm)
Artists
- Dropkick Murphys
- Flogging Molly
- Fatboy Roberts
- Danny Michel
- Jonathan Coulton
- Meat Loaf
- Enter the Haggis
- Weezer
- The Lonely Island
- Arcade Fire
- Corb Lund
- Captain Tractor
- Gogol Bordello
- Kim Boekbinder
- Great Big Sea
- The Kleptones
- Dust Rhinos
- Queen
- CAKE
- Pixies
Tracks
- Enter the Haggis – One Last Drink
- Mudmen – 5 O’clock
- Kim Boekbinder – Impossible Girl #1
- Weezer – Troublemaker
- The Prodigals – Happy Man
- Joel Plaskett Emergency – Nowhere With You
- Enter the Haggis – Gasoline
- Flogging Molly – Rebels of the Sacred Heart
- The Salads – Get Loose
- Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon
- Dropkick Murphys – The Dirty Glass
- Dropkick Murphys – Captain Kelly’s Kitchen
- Frank Mackey and the Keltic Cowboys – Kiss My Irish A*s
- Flogging Molly – What’s Left of the Flag
- Big Audio Dynamite – Rush
- Jonathan Coulton – Still Alive
- Tricks Upon Travellers – Knocker Boys
- Dropkick Murphys – The Auld Triangle
- Corb Lund – I Wanna Be In The Cavalry
- The Bloody Irish Boys – Drunk Tonight
- Dropkick Murphys – Sunshine Highway
- Jonathan Coulton – I Feel Fantastic
- Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey
- Jonathan Coulton – Mr. Fancy Pants
- Great Big Sea – The Night Pat Murphy Died
Twitter
I see "mountain", "awesome", and "happy". Good sign.
Facebook
"awesome", "beer", "happy"... "hurts"
Top words (in order) were awesome, happy, may (?), time, morning, hurts, weekend, snow, halloween, facebook, find, mountain, anyone, room, really, mountains (plural should count together IMO). Not sure if the word cloud or that list includes captions on posted links/pics/videos, comments, or just straight status updates.
Bookmark Tags
I tag a lot of videos
Not feeling like writing a heck of a lot right now, so I’ll just end with a sentiment I agree with whole-heartedly:
I just finished writing a short end-of-year/happy-holidays type message for my work blog (The Financial Benefits Group), and I’m kind of proud of it. So I’m going to re-post it here.
Tonight we will have the first full lunar eclipse to take place on the Winter Solstice in nearly 400 years. It will be another four centuries before it happens again.
The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year (less than 7.5 hours of sunlight for Edmonton!), and holds great significance for nearly every culture, religion, and community in the world. For us in the Northern hemisphere, it marks the turning point when days start getting longer again. When we start getting more sun, more light, when we can start looking forward to Spring.
This is a time of year for optimism and hope, for being grateful for everything and everyone we have around us, and for looking forward to the future. This is a time to make plans, and get excited about the new year.
Tonight we can watch the Earth’s shadow fall across the Moon. Literal cosmic events. People around the world will look up and watch this happen. This transcends any man-made borders, geographical or philosophical.
Some people would look at an eclipse and see how small and insignificant they are. Some would look at the longest night of the year and see only darkness and cold. I would offer instead togetherness, community, family: “We’re all in this together.†Be grateful that we have made it this far and look with confidence and excitement at the future ahead. The sun will come up tomorrow, the world will keep turning, it’s up to us to make the most of the ride.
All the best from our team and families to you and yours; may you have a warm, safe, and happy Winter, and a joyful and prosperous 2011. We’re looking forward to it.
If I can add a more personal lesson: Be happy in your life. Work for it. Fight for it. Don’t depend on things or circumstances or people to make you happy. Make joy in your own life, and get change or be rid of anything that is taking it from you. Good luck.
