Bobulous Central: reviews, articles, and travel stories.

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Writing is a dreadful Labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

Of the more than two-hundred pages on this site, here are the most recently added:

Lowepro Toploader Pro 65 AW.: A camera bag which keeps your digital SLR firmly by your side.
Denon AH-D1001 headphones.: Comfortable headphones which offer deep, powerful bass.
Novint Falcon.: A PC game controller which combines fine control with haptic feedback.
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.: A book which examines the abuse of science by the media and product salesmen.
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.

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).

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.