This week - 5 years ago

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I thought it would be nice to revisit some posts from the past the coming weeks: I start with this top 10 of 5 years ago and I think it is still my top 10 - especially after the airing of the Ramses Shaffy biopic TV series.
Sunday, February 01, 2009

Sundays' best: Top Ten Dutch Songs

  1. Ramses Shaffy - Zing,
    vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder
  2. Astrid Nijgh - Ik
    doe wat ik doe
  3. Willeke Alberti - Telkens
    Weer
  4. Benny Neyman - Waarom
    fluister ik je naam nog
  5. Wim Zonneveld - Het
    Dorp
  6. Jules de Corte - Ik
    zou wel eens willen weten
  7. Het goede Doel - Vriendschap
  8. Jasperina de Jong - Dobbe,
    dobbe, dobbe
  9. Rita Hovink - Laat
    me alleen
  10. Willem Nijholt - Sorry dat ik besta

Back at the VU

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It was a while that I had been at the Vrije University, but today my friend (and co-owner of Heilzaam) Ivan Wolffers had his parting lecture as professor Health and Culture. It was a great  and a very relaxed speech. I am happy that we will be able to enjoy Ivan for a long time to come at Heilzaam.

Same cover idea

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The final(?) end of the Tales

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Well: this is it: the very last volume of "Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin (whom I happened to meet a couple of years ago in SF). I just downloaded "The days of Anna Madrigal" - but didn't start reading yet - I want to enjoy this book as long as I can, just like the ice topping on a cake.

hmmm...

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The day I chose quality above quantity

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There was this article by Jenna Wortham's in The New York Times, wherein she says that twitter has devolved into a platform for self-aggrandizement. We're still sharing the news, she says, but we now are "straining to be the loudest or the most retweeted and referred to as the person who captured the splashiest event of the day in the pithiest way." And that's exactly how I felt about Twitter lately: I got annoyed by the noise and so missed the quality content. 
Almost all companies (and some people) it seems have targets with the number of followers, tweets, retweets, etc. which take away all the fun. So I radically erased more than 200 accounts I followed and am back to follow 25 max. (Which I try to be the best of the best) I like it already :-)

Journey to the center of the earth...

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