Year in Review - Most Popular Posts of 2006

Most Popular Posts

The end of the year is always a time for reflection; here’s a list of what people found most popular in 2006 (based on my wordpress.com stats). Listed in order of popularity.

1. The Holy Grail of Synchronization
2. 81 movies for geeks that do not suck
3. IceWeasel
4. The Great Firewall of Canada
5. 107 t-shirts for geeks that do not suck
6. Google Code Project Hosting
7. Life in the Trenches – Getting Out Alive
8. Top Ten Things I Hate About Crunch Time
9. Web Anonymity 101 – Digital Breadcrumbs
10. How to access Gmail when it is blocked at work
11. You Can Be a Good Example or a Horrible Warning – How NOT to be a Successful Blogger
12. Getting to Deadline – Programmer Productivity Tips

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Most Bookmarked on del.icio.us

I’ve purposely left out the bookmarks that already made it to most popular posts.

1. Painless Estimation Tools Evaluated
2. How to fix the Firefox memory leak (Firefox hack)
3. Web 2.0 Time Tracking In a Nutshell (please don’t sue me O’Reilley)
4. Life in the Trenches Part 1 – Getting Out Alive
5. Guide on How to Setup Two or More Gmail Accounts to Use One Account
6. WordPress.com Theme Reviews
7. You Can Be a Good Example or a Horrible Warning – How NOT to be a Successful Blogger
8. Top Ten Things I Hate About Crunch Time at a Startup (Bride of Getting to Deadline)
9. Problems with searching del.icio.us
10. Nokia 6682 Review Part 4 of 5: Freeware Applications
11. I Hate Internet Explorer 7 (Uninstall Guide)
12. Understanding Tagging Folksonomy – How it Relates to Improving PageRank
13. WordPress Tips – Alt-B
14. Web Anonymity 103 – Online Privacy
15. 45 Books I Like More Than a Little
16. 5 Habits for Writing for the Web
17. Web Anonymity 101 – Digital Breadcrumbs
18. The Secret to Blog Success is in the Title
19. Building an Audience or “How I Learned to Stop Posting Inane Crap and Love the Blog”
20. How to be a Programmer with 10 Simple Books
21. Time Tracking Softare: Painless Estimation Tools Evaluated
22. Making a mountain out of a molehill (of bugs)