{"id":105,"date":"2011-04-01T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-04-01T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T15:27:00","slug":"nice-to-know-this-blog-is-of-some-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Nice to know this blog is of some use&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that was interesting! &nbsp; Today I was contacted via email by someone working in the UK in a similar related industry who had an HP DeskJet 500 printer at their office and had just solved the problem of getting it to work with Windows 7 (64bit).<\/p>\n<p>They &#8216;googled&#8217; the solution to see if others had done the same and this post came up on my site:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/2010\/01\/hp-designjet-500-and-windows-7-yes-it.html\">&#8220;HP DesignJet 500 and Windows 7: Yes it does work even without the HPGL2 card!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trouble was GeoPlanIT seemed to get his browser (Firefox 3.6) in a refresh loop and didn&#8217;t display the post correctly! &nbsp;It seems it was at this point he did some&nbsp;detective&nbsp;work &nbsp;(not that difficult to find me)&nbsp;and emailed me at work and let me know. &nbsp; It turns out that a module on my blog to do with Amazon Associates was causing the problem. &nbsp;So I have disabled this module (don&#8217;t worry you aren&#8217;t missing anything!). Please accept my apologies to all those who might have experienced this outage (drop me a line if it happens again).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway upon&nbsp;receiving&nbsp;the email I saw that he was in the UK (very important to have an email signature), and since it was Friday (and therefore a bit quiet) I decided to give him a call. &nbsp; We then had a very nice brief chat <b>and <\/b>not just about printers and blogs&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure he wasn&#8217;t expecting a call or then for me to write this blog post, but hey life is full of surprises! &nbsp;Anyway you know who you are so thank you for telling me about my blog issues, and I hope some of my other posts prove useful to you.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the serious point of this post is to highlight the fact that sharing your experiences via a blog (or via any media) can help others and&nbsp;hopefully&nbsp;save us all from &#8216;reinventing the wheel&#8217;. &nbsp; Most of my walkthroughs and blog posts stem from researching the internet and&nbsp;piecing&nbsp;together useful information. &nbsp; I always try to acknowledge where I got it from and hopefully add to it.<\/p>\n<p>If when reading one of my posts you have ideas or further suggestions please post a comment, and I will include the new information within my post (plus acknowledgement of course!).<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: x-small;\">That is all, now have a good weekend&#8230;..<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that was interesting! &nbsp; Today I was contacted via email by someone working in the UK in a similar related industry who had an HP DeskJet 500 printer at their office and had just solved the problem of getting it to work with Windows 7 (64bit). They &#8216;googled&#8217; the solution to see if others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,57,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-offtopic","category-printing","category-win7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}