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It wasn't lambrini haha. It was a 1.6 Gallon bottle of Belgium st benards haha. One of only 149 in the entire world. Cost me a fortune. I brought it over on the flight when I first got it. I was just sat on the plane with this ridiculous bottle of beer getting some seriously funny looks. 6 bloody litres of it.

 

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Don't post because I just haven't got the time anymore! give me 2 hours extra a day and I might.

 

Oh mate. You have to get a job in IT. We get 8 hours a day to browse the internets and all that for £60k/year as soon as you finish Advent training.

Sorry. Could not resist

 

Did you do it all in yourself mate? Belgian booze is dangerous, Stella is the weakest stuff you get here!

 

Very nicely said JK! repped

 

Nope, it is still bottled up in its wooden case. It is 15% volume which is nice and strong. I don't think i'll ever open it. I may get it out at a party one night when i'm drunk. Like a dom jolly moment with the gigantic phone.

 

15%, that is crackers!

 

Well, after years of skulking in the shadows I have been inspired and have made the plunge to Premiumness. I guess I don't post as often as I should and this is going to change!! I guess I have not posted much because I am quite low in the IT knowledge food chain, so the least I can do is to part with some hard earned for the pearls I have received over the years. Reppage for Alex399 for showing the way!

 

Do we get commission for drumming up so many new premiums?

 

Well Cheers mate thats the message I intend to send across

so I went green! I went Premium! can you do the same, get enough people going green and we can have some kind of official service in place in terms of advice on IT related stuff then before you know it AJ will have his own Training Provider Buisness set up, hahaha

and yes I was jking... I am just keen to encourage people to go Green as I think its appreciated alot more than people first assume

I don't know AJ personally and I probaly wouldn't have a clue who he is even if he passed me in the street, I did notice that Ferrari in AJ's profile pic though and drooled on my keyboard for a couple of seconds though but none the less I have donated my hard earned cash and I didn't feel like demanding a refund of my membership but felt good to give something to the CF community.

Do I make it sound like a charity...? I'm just saying give something back now and again, not because you feel like you should do to fit in, but because you want too, I felt better for it anyway and I now feel obliged to take part more in discussions on the forum.

 

Probably right. Can't please everyone, especially with the truth. You can offer water to a man dying of thirst, but he's gotta want to drink it.

Thank you for the compliment.

 

Heehee! Thank you for the compliment. In truth, the one thing I do know is that I don't know everything. The old adage is true that the more you learn, the more you realize how much there is yet to learn.

I agree that most people read without posting. It's been that way since the days of dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 80s (and likely before that, though I wasn't part of online chat/forums until '82). So the question of, "How do you get people to post?" has been around for decades.

The answer, in my opinion, is that you can't force it to happen. You can encourage people to post... but they're not gonna post until they have something to say (and a reason to say it) and feel comfortable enough with the community.

There seem to be two types of people: initiators and responders. You can probably guess which I am... I rarely initiate new threads. I don't have questions, and I don't often strike up forum conversations from scratch. I'm that way on other forums as well - and on those forums where I don't have as much knowledge or experience, I don't post much at all (believe it or not! ). I suspect that if I didn't have much experience with IT certification, I probably wouldn't post much here, either. I don't tweet, I don't blog, and I rarely post on Facebook, though I check Facebook every day. On the other hand, initiators start threads and ask questions... with some of them blogging and tweeting every minor occurrence that happens throughout their day. Perhaps there's some sort of psychological information buried in there just waiting to be analyzed... but suffice it to say that a forum needs BOTH types of people.

You know what brings people back to this site? The community. You guys - every one of you - collectively make the forum what it is. As JK correctly states, we all have something different to offer. I can guarantee you that this forum would not be as great if it was just me fielding questions from random passers-by who never stuck around.

Everyone has their own motives for being here. Some need questions answered. Some want to pass their knowledge and experience on to others. Some even want to spam the forums to promote their product or blog or website or company. But you can't MAKE someone do those things. People will post how they will, when they will. Best thing we can do is to be here and actively participate whenever someone posts.

So... feel free to PM me about quantum mechanics. But I would probably fail you with regards to the Spanish Civil War.

 

Looks like the love in has really started now then.....

Seriously though, BM is right (again) as much as we can encourage people to be more active they are under no real pressure to do so so many of them won't. Another thing to take into account is the fact that a lot of the questions which people have when starting on the road to certification have been answered on these fine forums.

I know when I first found this place it answered most of my questions straight off the bat (A+, N+, MCDST)

This place still has more and better active members than some other forums I could mention....

 

I have been a member now for a few years, I check the forum several times a day at work I skip the usual posts which ask the same old thing but I guess the main reason i dont post much is usually because the question the people ask has already been answered or I dont know the answer.

 

I can think of a few reasons why lurkers wouldn't post:

1 - they read the forums, find their answer, and don't need to ask it again
2 - they already participate in forums elsewhere and can't be bothered with another one - this is me! I post a bit, but casually read at least once a day about 4/5 other forums, on varying topics - I never post on them because I simply don't want to spend the time on it.
3 - reading this forum tends to give the impression we are made up of people who know a lot (BM, Qs, craigie etc.), those who have their feet planted in IT but aren't the nuts yet (me being one), and those who know diddley-squat about many things. I find these boundaries to be pretty accurate, and unless you land in one of them, you wouldn't know where you stand and so may not want to post as to be seen too cocky for one, but not big enough nuts to be the next one up.

 

Hilarity (and quite often, a bit of drama) ensues when someone thinks they're in one category when they should be squarely in another. Entertainment galore!

 

Yup, ruthless, intimidating and sarcastic apparently.

 

You're proud of that ain't ya you little rascal you.