This is the second article in the series covering fun facts and statistics of 2008. The article of 2007 can be found here.

Friends and Family

Just at the end of the year my brother Erik got a new job at Men_at_Work. At this new job he has the possibility to become a shop manager.
Anky is still doing great at school, well underway in her second year. She was born to be a teacher.
Both Bart and Mischa are in a relationship. I wish them the very best for a long time to come.

Work

The year started as good as 2007 had ended, and work kept flooding in. Until the economy halted in October. The portfolio at Albertz Hendrix is varied enough to prevent going bankrupt, but things are a lot slower at the end of the year. But, against all odds, it seems that we are going to be very busy in 2009.

Spare Time

The Thirdwing choir took a lot more of my spare time this year as I was asked to join the organization committee.
My websites did well. I relaunched Starbase 49 in a drupal form. Made a new site for Phicture, and updated this site.

Great Music

This is the first full year of Last.fm tracking, so I can grab some statistics from their database.
The new discoveries of this year were Elbow and Sigur Rós. They both played at Lowlands, but I skipped Sigur Rós and didn't know about Elbow. I knew I shouldn't have done that after seeing the television recordings afterwards.

5 Most played artists:

1. Voicst (148 plays)
2. Sigur Rós (106 plays)
3. Pink Floyd (106 plays)
4. Elbow (103 plays)
5. Tool (99 plays)

5 Most played albums:

1. Voicst - A Tale of Two Devils (110 tracks played)
2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (65 tracks played)
3. Sigur Rós - Takk... (57 tracks played)
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (52 tracks played)
5. Editors - An End Has a Start (45 tracks played)

New stuff

2008 was the year I went Mac, therefore most big purchases this year were from Apple.

• Apple iMac 20inch
• Various accessories (Elgato EyeTV, WD MyBook Studio)
• iPhone 16GB
• MacBook Unibody 2.4Ghz
• Sigma 10mm F2.8 EX DC FISHEYE HSM