Drupal was possibly the the biggest discovery of this year. I may have come across it in 2006, but I only realised how good it was this year. My websites www.herts-lettings.co.uk (about to be made over by Epsilis) and www.mingwei.co.uk. The core functionality is modest, but there is a module to do absolutely everything. There is a brilliant community site where everything is documented and discussed, www.drupal.org. Drupal and siteground (www.siteground.com) make a wonderful combination.
China is the next discovery. I had never been to China before Sept 2007; I have been there twice since and each time I am more impressed by the sheer pace of development there. There is a wealth of the China real estate market, but one I rather like is Stephen Chung's Zeppelin Real Estate site, http://www.real-estate-tech.com/zeppelin_real_estate_tech.htm (this page gives links to recent newsletters, but you can easily navigate to the home page from here). There is a good deal of information on the China real estate market in English. You could do worse than start here on my site, although I must acknowledge that Google actually selects the articles.
The BT Internet Radio was the next discovery. This is probably not the best of the many radios based on the same internals, but it's the one they sell in John Lewis's where my father-in-law bought the radio for my birthday. The main reason I like to listen to this is that I can catch Rush Limbaugh on WABC. The sound quality is not fantastic, but for speech it is very clear.
The next discovery is Econtalk. I now eagerly await the next podcast from Russ Roberts. Listening to this podcast has increased my interest in economic freedom, economics and politics. I strongly urge you to download a few podcasts and enjoy the intelligent conversation that Russ Roberts seems always to manage to have with his guest.
The next discover I made in 2007 is undoubtedly older than all the rest. It is soup. Guided by Francis I discovered that cooking some vegetables, adding stock, can frequently produce a soup that is really quite as good as anything that comes out of a can, with really very little effort.
