Month: September 2022

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2000s Blogging Computers Internet Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2002

Hello again retro music fans. Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 15, 20, 25, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday September 08TH 2002:

And here’s an actual snapshot of my Top 5 exactly the way it appeared on my web site at the time:

That’s from the 365TH online edition of my “Weekly Top 40” at the time. That was right in the middle of the 2ND era of my chart that lasted a little over 14 years from October 1995 to January 2010. For a little over 2 years from 2002 to 2004 I was immersed in the #EDM culture, and my weekly hit music chart was a pure dance chart. It was quite the experience !

My web site at the time defied expectations, and it was huge worldwide – particularly in Europe and Australia / New Zealand. You can see the way it looked back then. It was quite simple HTML with minimal graphics. It’s essentially the HTML that I learned in 1995 when I first brought my weekly hobby online and made it public to the world.

I mentioned 4 Strings’ “Take Me Away (Into The Night)” last week. It entered my chart in May 2002, and it stayed on continuously for 70 weeks through September 2003. I believe that it’s the longest-running and biggest overall smash in the entire history of my weekly chart.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 25 years ago to September 1997. It’s when a certain party song was spending its 2ND week at # 1 on my chart. It would go on to spend 18 weeks in a row at # 1 – making it the longest-running # 1 smash in the history of my chart.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going retro with me !

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Blogging Geography Military Travel

Yunnan China

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. This month I’m virtually visiting 5 continents in 5 weeks. Last week I wrote about Luxembourg in Europe. This week it’s eastward to Asia.

Asia is a vast continent that spans over 17.2 million square miles (over 44.5 million square kilometers). That’s almost 9% of the total surface area of the world, and about 30% of the total land area. About 60% of the world’s population lives in Asia.

I’ve only set foot in one small part of Asia, and I actually lived there for a couple of months – in Saudi Arabia during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1991. On the eastern end of the continent my Mom was born in the Philippines in the mid-1940s.

When trying to figure out where I wanted to write about for this edition of #TravelThursday I chose a unique physical location rather than somewhere I’ve been, or somewhere I’d like to visit someday (such as Tokyo, Seoul, or Singapore).

I took my current latitude (roughly 25.5° north), and I extended it to the longitude that is 180° from my current longitude (roughly 80.5° west). That places “the other side of the world” – at 25.5° north latitude and 99.5° east longitude – or in far-southwestern China very near the border with Myanmar. It’s near the village of Maliaotian (or Ma Liao Tian) in the county of Yongping in the autonomous prefecture of Dali Bai in the province of Yunnan.

Yunnan has a population of over 48 million, and the land is mostly mountainous and rural. The capital and largest city of Yunnan is Kunming – also known as Yunnan-Fu – with over 8 million residents. Its new and modern International Airport is actually one of the busiest in the world – serving millions of tourists – particularly from nearby India. It’s known as “The City Of Eternal Spring” and “The Flower City”. It stays mostly cool year-round despite its latitude near the Tropic Of Cancer, as it’s a high mountain valley city (over 6,200 feet above sea level).

Kunming Yunnan China

From Asia to Australia. Next #TravelThursday I’m visiting my favorite city in Australia that I have a unique 25-year connection to – Perth. I’ve never been there, but I feel like I know the city. I’ll explain next week. Let’s keep traveling together.

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 290

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday September 04TH 2022 – the 290TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 12 Hold You Tight
[3RD week @ # 1]		 Dan Bremnes
2 2 11 Thank God For Sunday Morning Cochren & Co.
3 3 4 Good Morning Mercy Jason Crabb
4 5 3 New Creation Mac Powell
5 4 5 Don’t Lose Heart Steven Curtis Chapman
6 6 8 Good Lord David Leonard
7 9 2 Build A Boat Colton Dixon
8 7 7 We All Need Jesus Danny Gokey Ft. Koryn Hawthorne
9 8 4 All My Praise Ryan Ellis
10 10 2 Always Chris Tomlin

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Into The Wild” – Josh Baldwin
2020 – “Miracles” – Colton Dixon
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

END-OF-SUMMER – This is the 15TH and final week of summer here in the U.S.A. – that time-period that starts with U.S. Memorial Day Weekend and ends with U.S. Labor Day Weekend. As is tradition for me I’ll present a special #CountUp of my Top 10 hits of the summer. I’ll post that in 3 weeks on Monday September 26TH 2022.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 4 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, and #Top10Monday.

Your likes, follows, and comments are always appreciated. Thank You for being part of my online ministry to share God’s Good News and win souls for Christ through His music. I’m also on Twitter and Flickr.

Be blessed my friends !  May our God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Astronomy Blogging Holidays

Labor Day

It’s #LaborDay here in the U.S.A. – a day set aside to honor all working Americans. If you work for a living – then this day is for you.

It’s also the unofficial end of summer and the start of Fall; although, astronomically Fall is still 2½ weeks away. (This year’s Autumnal Equinox occurs on September 22ND 2022 at 9:03 PM EDT.)

Enjoy this day off (for many of us), and get ready to go back to work tomorrow.

#Top10Monday will be presented tomorrow – Tuesday.

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