It’s been another great year, and I want to thank everyone who I’ve worked with over the last twelve months. I’ve met some cool new people, and I’ve been excited to see how my code has improved over the last year. I know the economy has been hard on everyone, but I’m excited at the projects that are coming in 2009.

2009 will be an interesting year for Trellis Development as well, as a few special items are coming sometime during the year, some sooner rather than later.

Most folks know how much I listen to music while working, and in keeping with tradition I thought I’d post an quick analysis of music I’ve added to my library this year. I’m currently at 5,562 songs that I’ve collected over the last ten years. That’s about 18 days of straight music without any repeats, consuming a good 33.35 GB of space.

I have not really enjoyed many new-release albums since 2000, so many of my new faves are old albums I’m discovering. However, each year I rank my new top five from the previous year. This year I added some actual math to everything.

I have rated every single song in my library on the iTunes 1-5 scale. Only 100 songs are fives, 600 are fours, etc. It’s hard to really impress me. Here is a list of the top five new-release albums from 2008 with their average rating score:

Seventh Tree – Goldfrapp (1 Five, 9 Fours) /10 = 4.1 (Winner, 7 songs are in top ten play counts of these albums)
11i – Supreme Beings of Leisure (2 Fives, 5 Fours, 4 Threes) /11 = 3.818
Seven Lives Many Faces – Enigma (3 Fives, 6 Fours, 7 Threes, 3 Twos) /19 = 3.47368
Sirens of the Sea – Oceanlab (0 Fives, 6 Fours, 7 Threes) /13 = 3.4615
Viva La Vida – Coldplay (0 Fives, 5 Fours, 7 Threes) /12 = 3.4166
Sehnsucht – Schiller (2 Fives, 5 Fours, 18 Threes, 5 Twos, 1 One) /31 = 3.0645

Overall, I’d highly recommend Seventh Tree. It’s not typical Goldfrapp, but is still great. For those who know my love of 90′s Enigma can see that the latest album scored horribly. Oh well, let’s go 2009!