Random quotation.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Site news.
- 2nd February, 2010.
- Internet Explorer 6 is now a leper among web browsers . . .
Newest pages.
Of the more than two-hundred pages on this site, here are the most recently added:
- Handling errors in PHP 5.
- How to write custom error handler functions that quietly report errors to you and not your visitors.
- Quantum by Manjit Kumar.
- A book on the history of quantum theory, and the disagreements about how to interpret it.
- PHP 5, SimpleXML and Cache_Lite.
- How to read data from XML feeds using PHP 5 and the SimpleXML extension.
- PHP handler for 404 errors.
- Create a PHP script to deal with malformed requests for pages on your site.
- Belated games reviews.
- A roundup of games that I should have reviewed well before 2009.
- Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 rev 2.
- A review of a mouse that is designed to reduce strain.
- Cologne, Germany.
- Notes and photos of Cologne, a city with its own brand of beer.
- Stockholm, Sweden.
- Notes and photos of Stockholm, a city criss-crossed by waterways.
- Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Notes and photos of Copenhagen, an expensive but charming city.
- Travelling across Europe.
- Shun the plane and adventure across Europe by train and ship.
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
- A novel about a soldier whose tours of duty separate him from everything he used to know.
- Run Spotify in Linux under a separate user account.
- Run Windows applications in Linux under an unprivileged user account.
Popular pages.
The ten most popular pages at Bobulous Central in 2009.
Unique pageviews according to Google Analytics (percentage change compared to 2008, and previous position in chart).
- 1. Audio formats comparison.
- 15,269 (+23.2%, same place in chart).
- 2. Extracting XML data using PHP and regular expressions.
- 8,872 (+139.8%, new entry to the top ten).
- 3. Lossless audio comparison 2006.
- 8,789 (+18.4%, previously 2nd place).
- 4. Replay Gain and Foobar 2000.
- 6,592 (+19.8%, previously 5th place).
- 5. Audio formats comparison 2006.
- 6,286 (+9.5%, previously 4th place).
- 6. Lumie Bodyclock Advanced review.
- 5,700 (-9.3%, previously 3rd place).
- 7. Blender 3D review.
- 4,696 (+20.9%, previously 9th place).
- 8. Nikon Coolscan V review.
- 4,596 (-16.1%, previously 6th place).
- 9. Third-party cookies.
- 4,344 (+294.2%, new entry to the top ten)
- 10. A history of Sutton, London.
- 4,340 (-9.5%, previously 7th place).
All sections.
The content of Bobulous Central is split across various sections. All of them are listed below.
- I.M.H.O.
- Bob's humble opinion on various hardware and software.
- Miscellaneous Pages.
- Informative pages that don't exactly fit anywhere else.
- Coding.
- Pages about programming and web development.
- Travel Destinations.
- Descriptions and photos of places I've visited in the world.
- Articles.
- Articles written from Bob's point of view.
- The Booze Cruise.
- Liable to offend and/or bore. A photographic travel account of a teenage holiday on a canal narrowboat.
- Universal Decimal Time.
- An explanation of the weird little clock applets on this site.
- Ignition game site.
- Years ago, a little racing game appeared. Bob made a site about it.
- Free-Music Review.
- No longer updated. Reviews of non-commercial MP3 tracks.
- Bobulous.
- Find out more than you want to know about the creator of this site.
- Sitemap.
- A bullet-list of all the content pages on Bobulous Central.