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The Best of Bill - 2006

Sunday, December 31, 2006

It's time for the last post of 2006. On December 31, 2004, I created a "Best of Bill" posting for 2004 and it was quite popular (based on the number of unique hits the posting got). So, I continued the tradition for 2005 and am now doing the same for 2006. My 2006 posting is cumulative, so it includes the best postings from previous years as well.

It's hard to know which posts others find most interesting; however, hit counts and email comments seem to be as good a measure as any. So, a new feature in the summary for this year is that I've flagged (using "[*]" as the "flag") the post that either got the most "hits" on my blog each month or ones that resulted in a significant amount of email to me. In several cases, it was too close to call, so I listed multiple high-ranking posts for some months. An alternative view of which posts might have been most popular is the list of my blog posts that have been put up by others on reddit.com.

But, just because somebody else finds something interesting, that doesn't mean that a particular post isn't of interest to somebody (each posting was interesting at least to me when I posted it!). You can always find my past weblog postings by either drilling down from the monthly summaries (available when you click on the month name in the calendar in the side bar or by clicking on the month name in the summary below) or by using the search utility (also in the side bar); however, New Year's Eve is traditionally a time for thinking back on the past year (see here, here, and here), so I went back through my previous postings and picked out the ones that I thought were my better posts. The posts that I chose are either:

I have deliberately tried to leave out any postings that are personal, or product announcements, or non-Lisp related.

Best wishes for 2007 and here is the summary:

2006:
  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2005:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2004:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2003:

  1. August:
  2. September:
  3. October:
  4. November:
  5. December:

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