A couple of days ago, I reposted some of my old posts, those which I personally liked or which got a lot of responses. I dated them with the original date so that they don't show up in the main page. My intention was to keep all of my best blog posts at one location.

What I did not know was that Blogger puts old items on your feed - so everyone got a dose of my old posts again. What was even more surprising was that

• People mailed me questions thinking they were new posts. Nothing in them suggested that they were very, very old.
  
• One of the posts got on reddit and sent me a ton of traffic. Which is ironic since it had already made a round through reddit when it was originally posted.

Here they are - a couple of my greatest hits

• Tyranny of the geeks. I had originally written this two years ago as a response to Adam Bosworth, a rant on the elitism of geeks. When I woke up the morning after, I saw that this post was all over the tech blogosphere. Better than that, Tim Bray himself dropped in and left a comment (I had taken potshots at XML). Unfortunately, I don't have the original comments. No amount of looking through the Wayback Machine helped. The funny thing is how this article is as relevant today as it was 2 years ago.
  
  
• Lisp is Sin. This post got me a ton of traffic from Reddit last time. Better yet, it got me lunch with Don Box :). When I was in Redmond, I desperately wanted to meet Don but I had no idea how to approach him. I remembered that he had linked to this mail. Wasting no time, I shot him a mail saying "Hey, I'm the Lisp is Sin guy. Want to have lunch?".
  
  Don is one of the smartest people I've met. I spent the whole lunch trying to keep up with what he was saying. It was a humbling experience :-)