It’s that time of year where every magazine and website does a retrospective, regurgitating old material with no shame. I didn’t want to miss out this year. Digging into my Google Analytics logs I found the following…
Ten most read pages this year:
Installing Oracle 10g XE on CentOS 4. This page was actually 35% more popular this year than last despite the ageing versions of both Linux and Oracle
Sri Lanka. This has been one of my most popular pages for years, although it took a 50% dive in page impressions this year due to the loss of a single referrer
A number of my favourite posts of the year didn’t make the popularity grade. I had a good smattering, with some decent IT articles (12), a large number about developing my iPhone application Yummy (1234567) and I was quite pleased with my movie poster edits (12).
Overall it was a busy year! Thanks for reading. I’m sure I’ll be back with more in 2009. Stay tuned.
Wishing you and your family happiness and peace, turkey ((Or spicy pancake if that’s your preference.)) and chocolate this festive season, whatever your faith or lack thereof.
The above image, by the way, was taken in Reykjavik, Iceland a couple of days before Christmas 2006.
It all started ten thirteen years ago. In November 1998 I went with a friend to Amsterdam, and now every November since I have spent at least a few days out of the country.
It never started as a challenge and you can’t deliberately start a tradition, but I’m keen to keep this one going for as long as I can. Even if it is a little silly.
George W. Bush stars in the latest (and little publicised) in the gory Saw movie franchise. In it he discovers some interesting new “enhanced interrogation” techniques and finds that getting out, with no recourse to legal representation or trial, is, quite literally, torture.
Full news on her own website, but today B said her “Affirmation of allegiance” and gained British Nationality. She was a little unhappy about having to pledge allegiance to the Queen so I’ve made a minor edit to the original picture.
I commented that a lot of our government clearly have not had to make such a pledge themselves. If they too had to respect democracy and freedom I think we’d be hearing rather less about 42 days in gaol without trial and ID cards. (End of rant.)
Somehow the idea of replacing the head of Hellboy with that of the last Deputy Prime Minister and MP for Kingston upon Hull, John Prescott, amused me. Even the slogan kind of works.
Photography, opinions and other random ramblings by Stephen Darlington