Archives by Popularity

Album Cover: No Line On The Horizon

"I'm running down the road like loose electricity while the band in my head plays a striptease."
U2 / Breathe

Every year, certain blog entries float their way to the top in terms of popularity. The following lists provide a glimpse of the most popular blog entries by year. Rankings are based on unique permalink visits, which have been tracked since August of 2004.

2003

  1. URI vs. URL
  2. What is a 'Back Door Man?'
  3. An Analysis of 'Bernie'
  4. XHTML and Table Height
  5. XHTML Image Maps
  6. Camino vs. Safari
  7. No More Summer Vacation
  8. Memories of Sixth Grade Camp
  9. Textarea Scrolling in Mozilla
  10. Box Model Enlightenment
  11. Another Reason to Hate UCLA
  12. A Dime a Dozen
  13. Fighting Spam with Mozilla Thunderbird
  14. Six Feet Under
  15. Smoke
  16. Browser Articles Galore
  17. Harry Potter and Star Wars Talk
  18. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  19. Mozilla T-Shirts
  20. Unfortunate Baggage

2004

  1. The Difference Between Gray and Grey
  2. The Difference Between Who and Whom
  3. MySQL's LEFT() Function
  4. Gmail Problems
  5. To Clone or Not to Clone
  6. Extracting Unique Values with XSL
  7. Tableless Tables
  8. XHTML and Table Height Revisited
  9. Almost There
  10. The Difference Between Farther and Further
  11. Thunderbird and Norton AntiVirus
  12. Sea Change
  13. Blogging Bottleneck
  14. Firefox's Default Browser Setting
  15. GrayModern 0.6.2
  16. Aggressive Stylesheet Caching in Firefox
  17. Sonic the Hedgehog
  18. Gmail Notifier Problems
  19. Ford vs. Mercedes?
  20. Crispy New Freestyle

2005

  1. The Difference Between Class and ID in CSS
  2. The Difference Between Sympathy and Empathy
  3. Installing Subversion on Fedora Core 3
  4. Sending Email in Perl Using MIME-Lite
  5. Three Tickets
  6. Stupid Turkish Hackers
  7. The State of the Browsersphere - Part 1: Safari
  8. New Music Releases RSS Feed
  9. Disabled Form Fields in Internet Explorer
  10. Why Won't Netscape Just Go Away?
  11. Installing PHP 4 or PHP 5 on IIS
  12. The New Bond
  13. Comment Spammers are Nuggets
  14. Downloading Music Legally is Hard
  15. Back On Top
  16. Domain Renewal Scam
  17. Firefox Secrets
  18. A New Anti-Spam Measure?
  19. Fedora Core KVM Issues
  20. Installing Apache2, MySQL and PHP on Redhat Linux 9

2006

  1. How to Restart Windows via Remote Desktop
  2. Embedding YouTube Videos as Valid XHTML 1.0
  3. Getting :hover to Work in IE7
  4. Installing the Subversion Client with SSL Support on Linux
  5. Finally
  6. Strange Cursor Artifact in Firefox
  7. Incrementing a Date in Perl
  8. Getting Around the COUNT DISTINCT Problem in SQLite
  9. Setting the DOCTYPE in XSL
  10. Changelog Between Two Tags in Subversion
  11. On the Same Page
  12. Embedding Dailymotion Videos as Valid XHTML 1.0
  13. Multiple-Value Returns in JavaScript
  14. Bernzilla Redesign 2006: Requiem
  15. Converting to MySQL-Friendly Timestamps in Perl
  16. Renaming MP3 Files Based on ID3 Tags on Windows
  17. Pink for October
  18. Constants in CSS Revisited
  19. For Ajax, Subdomains are Cross-Domain
  20. How Do I Include YouTube Enclosures in My RSS Feed?

2007

  1. Fixing the Green Bar Problem in Windows Movie Maker
  2. Copying Firefox Bookmarks from XP to Vista
  3. Dynamic YouTube Image Thumbnails
  4. Ripping CDs to MP3 in Windows Media Player 11
  5. Connecting to a Remote Oracle Database with PHP and the Oracle Instant Client
  6. Uninstalling Gnash in Ubuntu
  7. Adding a Second Hard Drive in Ubuntu
  8. 10 Solid WordPress Themes
  9. X, Y or Z
  10. Vixy.net and Windows Movie Maker
  11. Avoiding Email Header Injection in PHP
  12. Firefox's Strange 'Save File' Behavior
  13. How to Contribute to Firefox
  14. How to Make 'apt-get install' Stop Requiring Your Ubuntu DVD
  15. IE7 Can't Handle 'table-row'
  16. Jay-Z and Nine Inch Nails Mashup
  17. Google Reader Mangled in Opera 9.5 Alpha
  18. MTV Returns to HTML
  19. Bobby Engram
  20. $5,000 Web Design Scholarship

2008

  1. How to Make a Slow USB Flash Drive Faster
  2. The Joys of Using a Comcast DVR
  3. Windows Live Hotmail and the Firefox 3 Betas
  4. Utilizing cdata-section-elements in XSL
  5. Getting Wireless Networking to Work in Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude D630
  6. Overlaying an Image on a Video Using FFmpeg on Ubuntu
  7. Ferrari F430 Scuderia
  8. Belkin F5D7132: The Bane of My Existence
  9. How WordPress Post Slugs Work
  10. Generating Video Thumbnail Storyboards
  11. Managing Multiple Gmail Accounts from a Single Gmail Account
  12. I Know English Very Good
  13. Selecting a Random Row from an SQLite Table
  14. Is John Oliver's Grandma Young at Heart?
  15. A Good Month to be #1
  16. Better Thumbnails for MKV Files in Windows Media Center
  17. Big Pussy on Celebrity Apprentice
  18. What to Expect from a Root Canal
  19. 'Unable to access jar file' from a Cygwin Bash Script
  20. WordPress on the Verge of Valid YouTube Embeds?

2009

  1. Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 on Windows 7
  2. From Hardy to Jaunty
  3. How to Make an Animated GIF from Video
  4. Adware in My Firefox Status Bar?
  5. Pearl Jam at Key Arena in Seattle on September 21, 2009
  6. How to Get the Height of a Hidden Div
  7. How Namespaces Can Hose Your XPath Queries in C#
  8. Pearl Jam at Key Arena in Seattle on September 22, 2009
  9. Problems with Google Gears and Google Reader
  10. How I Fixed Flash in Firefox on Ubunty Jaunty Jackalope
  11. Logging On to Windows 7 with LogMeIn
  12. Second Annual Bobby Engram Celebrity Softball Game
  13. Dawg Day
  14. Christian Wargo
  15. Editing a Video by Generating and Using an EDL File on Windows
  16. Three Thoughts on a Loss to the Bruins
  17. Losing Unread Items in Google Reader Again
  18. Deja Vu in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
  19. On Switching to 64-bit
  20. Some Thoughts on the 2009 Seattle Seahawks

2010

  1. When Calls to a CheckedListBox's SetItemChecked Method Don't Work
  2. My Mom Went to College
  3. Western Digital/Seagate Switcharoo
  4. The Worst Kind of Sports Fan
  5. A Moment of Zen
  6. Banned for Using Google Reader's Email Feature
  7. Poochinski
  8. The Night I Met Eddie Vedder
  9. Aloft
  10. The Effects of Innovation on Inclination