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Comment on SBS 2008 Setup Hang while Expanding and Installing Files by AndyParkes

AndyParkes — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:56:51 +0000

Thanks for the comment Rob

Glad you got it sorted!

Comment on SBS 2008 Setup Hang while Expanding and Installing Files by Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:25:53 +0000

That fixed it for me, Thanks! SBS 2011

After checking the SBSSetup.log the updates were at 91% from 3 hours ago, and no progress.

I stop/restarted the Windows Update Service, and presto!

Comment on Do Something That Scares You by Andy’s Techie Blog » Blog Archive » Pecha Kucha Birmingham Volume 5–including me!

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:32:24 +0000

[...] in October last year I wrote a post called “Do Something That Scares You” where I talked about pushing some personal boundaries by speaking at Pecha Kucha [...]

Comment on Robert Crane–Search Server Express and SBS 2011 by Robert Crane

Robert Crane — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:58:14 +0000

Andy,

Appreciate the shout out.

Thanks
Robert

Comment on Robert Crane–Search Server Express and SBS 2011 by Andy Parkes

Andy Parkes — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:59:54 +0000

Shout out for Robert Crane

Comment on Protecting Your Gmail Account with Two Factor Authentication. by Andy Parkes

Andy Parkes — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:23:19 +0000

Thank you

Comment on Protecting Your Gmail Account with Two Factor Authentication. by Richard Tubb

Richard Tubb — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:16:21 +0000

Really good blog post Andy!

Comment on Retro Computer Museum – Event – April 2012 by Richard Tubb

Richard Tubb — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:37:59 +0000

Andy – thanks for the heads-up on this, and I hope to be there to help set the top score for Chuckie Egg!

Comment on How To Spam Friends and Irritate People by Toby

Toby — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:17:07 +0000

I follow a very small number of people and still didn’t know about this blog post until today.

So I am not catered for you in your readership profiling!

Comment on How To Spam Friends and Irritate People by Lufferov

Lufferov — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:01:09 +0000

I run a website and face similar issues. My stance on the matter is I’d much rather have happy, loyal readers like Mr Anderson than have to resort to spam to get Mr Smith’s attention. By reposting the same thing several times I risk annoying Mr Anderson, for me that’s striclty a no go area!

If I write a new article it gets posted once to my sites twitter feed. The site may get 8-10 new articles a day, so I do get quite a lot of posts as each article goes live. This helps with timing, as any one of those posts may hit Mr Smith. But at the same time, each one is a new article for Mr Anderson to see.

I also offer a mailing list, which is scheduled to go out just after 5pm. The idea there being that it will be the first thing people see when they get to work the next day. Hopefully resulting in them reading my content with their morning coffee!

To address Vaughan’s point about it being edification and it not mattering if people read it or not. That’s fine when you do it for a hobby, however, when you are trying to attract advertisers all they care about are visitor numbers! So for me, I want to attract as many people to the site as I can, and in some ways don’t particularly care if they read it or not (though I’d prefer it if they did).

I’m interested about Mozilla’s new idea for opt-in push notifications for websites. So my browser will pop up a little notification if a site I’ve subscribed to posts a new article. A bit like RSS but in real time.

Personally, I just use RSS feeds and sort them. I’ve used that method for years, no other system is as efficient. I don’t miss anything that way and I can choose when I want to read more.