Bobulous Central: reviews, articles, and travel stories.

Random quotation.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain

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

Fellowes Powershred DS-1.: A personal shredder which shreds up to eleven sheets of paper at a time.
Phoenix Datacare 2001k.: A fire safe to protect magnetic and digital media such as backup tape, DVDs and hard drives.
Sid Meier's Civilization V.: The latest revision of the PC strategy game which lets you lead an empire through the ages.
Bergen, Norway.: Notes and photographs from a trip to Norway's second-largest city.
Oslo, Norway.: Notes and photographs from a trip to Norway's capital.
Gothenburg, Sweden.: Notes and photographs from a trip to Sweden's second-largest city.
An rsync backup script.: Advice on using rsync to backup your files in Linux.
Digital certificates.: A brief guide to digital certificates for email signing and encryption.

The ten most popular pages at Bobulous Central in 2010.

Unique pageviews according to Google Analytics (percentage change compared to 2009, and previous position in chart).

1. Audio formats comparison.: 19,159 (+25.5%, same place in chart).
2. Reading XML feeds using PHP and regular expressions.: 15,557 (+75.4%, same place in chart).
3. Third-party cookies.: 9,225 (+112.4%, previously 9th place)
4. Lossless audio comparison 2006.: 8,227 (-6.4%, previously 3rd place).
5. Configuring Apache and PHP in CGI mode.: 6,062 (+68.0%, new entry to the top ten).
6. Audio formats comparison 2006.: 5,566 (-11.5%, previously 5th place).
7. XML data extraction using PHP and regular expressions.: 5,523 (+47.3%, new entry to the top ten).
8. Lumie Bodyclock Advanced review.: 5,466 (-4.1%, previously 6th place).
9. Replay Gain and Foobar 2000.: 5,218 (-20.8%, previously 4th place).
10. A history of Sutton, London.: 5,017 (+15.6%, same place in chart).

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.