Mashing Windows

MashingWindows.com Alexa ranking has improved to 1,119,984 from 1,229,116.

Pages Index Report:

• MSN: 2 pages;
• Yahoo: 5 pages;
• Google: 11 pages.

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MSN has finally indexed Mashing Windows, showing 2 pages;  Yahoo remains unchanged with 2 pages indexed, while Google now shows 14 pages indexed.

Alexa ranking is still 1,229,226.

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Google has 11 pages indexed, Yahoo 2, and MSN is still clueless about Mashing Windows.

I resubmitted the site to MSN today, let’s see how long it will take for Mashing Windows to show up there.

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MashingWindows.com has made its appearance on Yahoo

and the number of pages indexed by Google is escalated to 6

while the new Alexa Rank is now 1,229,116.

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Interesting curiosity, Google at one point had indexed 8 pages, while today, 11 blog entries later, there are only 4 pages indexed:

For current Google indexing, click here.

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It’s a challenge, often when it comes to install some hardware/software or emulation like in this case, what’s supposed to take 5 minutes takes half an hour or longer, what’s supposed to take half an hour takes a few hours, and what’s supposed to take an hour or so, takes . . .  who knows!

Error messages continued to plague my install, inexplicably . . . but that’s nothing surprising . . . things go wrong for no reason, no matter how many times you double check the requirement lists . . .

Of course having 2 Windows XP Pro licenses, 2 Windows XP Home licenses, and 1 Windows 2000 licenses (collected from old machines now defunct), I didn’t want to spring an additional $ 283.99 for a new XP Pro license, and I ain’t touching Vista, no way!

Dealing with long issues during the week, with work, meeting and stuff it’s not easy.  Dealing with it on week-end is like collaging 5 minutes here, 10 minutes over there, googling here, technorating there, forums, apple.com, VMware.com, support tickets, reading and re-reading guides . . . then, probably out of desperation, I started contemplating ways to install my XP Pro SP 1 .
Some googling showed up something promising:  Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows, with some nice tricks on how to morph a Win XP Pro SP1 into a SP2 bootable install CD:  neat-o!

Made the Install CD before lunch, started the install after lunch before going out, and . . .  I got back home to a complete Windows XP Professional install on VMware on my PowerBook Pro with OS X 10.5 Leopard:  part 1 of the mission is accomplished.

Next  it’s going to be migrating application from the Dell to:

• web-based solution like Google Apps for email;
• native Mac applications like NeoOffice for Office Suite;
• migrating Windows only applications that I can’t live without like Microsoft Expression Web;
• and of course all the Firefox extensions that I have gotten used to (goodies).

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Somehow the very first entry of this blog (link here) has disappeared from Google, interesting . . .

Will it be back on the next pass?  Googlebot last crawled the site about an hour ago (31 Oct 2007 – 20:44).

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