Favourite Posts of 2004

I mentioned in Blog Hits by Age that I would, as others have done recently, list my favourite entries from my blog this year.

Here are the ones that come to mind. Some generated some good discussion in the blogosphere at the time; others disappointingly didn't generate any response at all.

In no particular order...

Conference Reporting

• Richard Garriott and Warren Spector

Questions and Observations

• Why Are There Three Primary Colours?
• Update on the Primary Colours
• 37 is a Psychologically Random Number

Programming Ideas

• Versioned Literate Aspect-Oriented Programming
• Blogs, Annotations, Comments and Trackbacks
• Naked Objects in Sparta
• Wikipedia as a URI Lookup Service
• ReadySET JotSpot
• Programmed Vocabulary Learning as a Travelling Salesman Problem
• Integrating Subversion and Roundup

Little Python Scripts

• Google Auction in Python
• Enumerating the Rationals in Python

Typed Citations Meme

• Google Scholar and Typed Citations
• More on Typed Citations

Aggregation versus Hosting Meme

• DOAP and the Next Advogato
• Aggregation versus Hosting
• OPML Sharing and Polling Security
• More on Aggregation versus Hosting
• PIMs and DLAs
• Amazon Recommendations and Self-Hosting

XML versus RDF Meme

• XML Infoset and XML Schemas versus RDF and RDF Schemas
• More on XML and RDF
• Maximizing the Differences