• March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry – Bizarre.
• Twitter fixes oAuth for desktop and mobile with xAuth – Just as I add Twitter support to Yummy, they change something. Typical.
• Famous Movie Quotes – Movie quotes visualised. (via @kottke)

It’s that time of year where all the papers, magazines and websites devolve into the best of the year articles rather than actually generate new content. I didn’t want to feel left out so here’s my contribution.

Of course “best” can mean any number of different things, so I’m going to pick a few top fives.

Here are the most popular pages viewed this year:

1. Installing Oracle 10g Express Edition on CentOS 4
2. Professionalism
3. Oracle 8i for Linux Installation HOWTO
4. Minolta Dual Scan II
5. Review: Belkin Wi-Fi Phone

It continues to surprise me how popular the Oracle pages are. They are now very old products and the pages have not been updated for quite some time now.

• Separating Explosives from the Detonator – A sensible response to the pants bomber…
• Google ‘open’ memo betrays deep corporate delusion – “Aside from Apple, no tech outfit is more secretive about what goes on inside the company.”
• Q: “Once in a blue moon” is a rare event. But what does “blue moon” really mean? – These things are never as simple as you think they should be…

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:

1. 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
2. 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
3. Oracle on Linux Installation Howto
4. Minolta Dual Scan II film scanner review. Another surprise given the age of the scanner and the rise of digital cameras
5. Belkin WiFi (Skype) Phone review
6. Photobook Group Test (Part 1)
7. Printing-1 Photobook Review (Part 1)
8. Photobook Group Test (Part 3)
9. Sophia Smith
10. Photobook Group Test (Part 4)

Somehow part two of my photobook group test slipped out of the top ten.