Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com

I've officially been blogging for six years this week. Yikes! It didn't all suck, but it was pretty rough there early on and I've finally found my blog's heartbeat.

Here's a little about me if you're interested, but more importantly, here's some posts that are the most often-read according to the last several year's web server logs. If you enjoy them, consider subscribing via RSS or email. I also do a weekly podcast that you might like. It's available on iTunes and Zune and you can get the complete MP3 here. I publish an Ultimate Tools List each year at http://www.hanselman.com/tools that you might like.

Blogging

• Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking
• 7 Blogging Statistics Rules - There is Life After Page Views
• Are Blog URLs important?
• Blog Stats are Confusing - GETs, Views, User-Agents, Readers, Eyeballs
• Google GuestMap 2007 and adding Google Maps to your Site
• RFC: How FeedReaders and MacGyver report blog subscribers - Tunneled User-Agent Data
• FavIcon.ico can be a bandwidth hog
• Tips for Preparing for a Technical Presentation

Twitter

• How To Twitter - First Steps and a Twitter Glossary 
• Twitter: The Uselessfulness of Micro-blogging 
• Twittering my Diabetes and Twittering my Diabetes - Conclusion and Complete Transcript
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You  

Programming

• The Weekly Source Code 33 - Microsoft Open Source inside Google Chrome
• Be a Better Developer in Six Months
• Is rooting for Visual Basic like rooting for the Red Sox?
• Managed Snobism
• How do you organize your code?
• You Can't Teach Height - Measuring Programmer Competence via FizzBuzz
• If your method can't do what it's name promises it can, throw
• Good Exception Management Rules of Thumb
• The Importance of being UTF-8
• A reminder on "Three/Multi Tier/Layer Architecture/Design" brought to you by my late night frustrations.
• Update on the dasBlog Turkish-I bug and a reminder to me on Globalization
• Programmer Intent or What you're not getting about Ruby and why it's the tits
• The (Programming) Language Explosion
• The Programmer Phases of Grief: or Language Translation is Harder Than It Looks
• Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn
• 5:01 Developers, Family, and Excitement about the Craft
• Sharpen the Saw for Developers
• Reading to Be a Better Developer
• Assembly Fiefdoms: What's the Right Number of Assemblies/Libraries?
• Some Guiding Principles for Software Development
• Rescuing the Tiny OS in C#
• Sez You Architecture and the Architecture Ninja
• PDC: Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies

.NET

• How to set an IIS Application or AppPool to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than 2.0
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File
• Troubleshooting Expired ASP.NET Session State and Your Options
• Release IS NOT Debug: 64bit Optimizations and C# Method Inlining in Release Build Call Stacks
• Catching RedBits differences in .NET 2.0 and .NET 2.0SP1
• 32bitness and 64bitness and migrating DasBlog on IIS7 and ASP.NET under Vista64
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Screencast Tutorials
• WPF Sample in IronRuby talking via C# to Wesabe
• ASP.NET Interview Questions
• List of .NET Dependency Injection Containers (IOC)
• How to Force IIS to load a certain version of the .NET CLR
• C# and VB .NET Libraries to Digg, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Live Services, Google and other Web 2.0 APIs

Gadgets

• The Case of the Failing Disk Drive or Windows Home Server Saved My Marriage
• My stark realization that I may be an early adopter
• 2006 Resolution - Prepare
• Geek Developer Cribs on10
• Wiring the house for a Home Network (series)
  • Part 2 - Design Q&A
  • Part 3 - ISP Hookup
  • Part 4 - Thank You Cat 6 Gigabit Ethernet
  • Part 5 - Gigabit Throughput and Vista
  • Part 6 - Identifying Performance Factors of Home Gigabit Networks
• Xbox 360 as Media Hub
• Verizon FIOS TV - Review and Photo Gallery
• Best Mobile Websites for Tiny Browsers
• Gone Quad - Day 0 with the Ultimate Developer PC (series)
  • The CodingHorror Ultimate Developer Rig Throwdown: Part 1 
  • The CodingHorror Ultimate Developer Rig Throwdown: Part 2 
  • The CodingHorror Ultimate Developer Rig Throwdown: Part 3
  • Hanselminutes Podcast 69 - Building a Developer PC
  • Hanselminutes Podcast 74 - Jeff Atwood overclocks the Ultimate PC
• The State of (My) Digital Media
• Logitech Harmony 880 Remote Control Review

Africa, Travel and Language

• Memories of Zimbabwe - You can't afford to go home
• Arusha Tanzania 2006 - Trip Rollup, we're back
• The 2004 Africa Trip in Pictures
• Waiting for death's sweet release
• WinForms Font Embedding Code with Ethiopian Amharic for Vista and XP
• Learning Languages Fast - Can you Flush the Toilet in Zulu?
• 10 Guerilla Airline Travel Tips for the Geek-Minded Person
• Packing Light for Travel with Power and Geek Style
• Hanselminutes Podcast 142 - Week One in South Africa - Vusi

Books and Music

• 2007 African Music List
• March 2007 My Reading List - Home
• October 2006 - My Reading List - Home
• October 2005 - My Reading List - Home
• My Top Ten Albums for Chris Brooks

Diabetes

• Twittering my Diabetes - Conclusion and Complete Transcript
• Scott's Diabetes Explanation: The Airplane Analogy
• Travelling as a Diabetic

Babies and Children

• Zero to Three Month Baby Ultimate Tools List
• FAQ About Raising Multilingual Children
• Babies sleeping through the night
• Baby Sign Language
  • Baby Sign Language - Update at 14 months
  • Baby Sign Language - Update at 2 years

Family

• Standing on their shoulders and paying it forward
• Raising Geeks with Scott's Dad
• Grandpa and Grandma
• Five Things You (Seriously) Didn't Know About Me
• Baby Thabo arrives and Zenzo Quincy

General Coolness

• Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery
• Life Beyond Pie Charts: The right visualization for the right job
• How to contribute a patch to an Open Source Project like DasBlog
• The Five Second Rule - Does it Apply Internationally?
• First, turn off everything that beeps
• Caught in the Act
• Hanselminutes on 9 - What Laptop do Alpha Geeks Use?

Staying Organized and Home Office

• ZEB (Zero Email Bounce) and a new Outlook Rule
• New Job, New House, New Baby, and Designing a Totally New Home Office
• Saving Money on Lighting the New House
• Power Consumption of the HP MediaSmart HP Home Server

Reviews

• Zune vs. iPod Video vs. iRiver Clix
• Doom 3 vs. FarCry vs. Half-Life 2 vs. Halo 2
• Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth Headset Review and Audio Sample
• Review: Pleo gets sent back to the Dinosaur Pound
• Amazon Kindle