Category: About The Schlog

Channelpro magazine (“the insider’s guide to SMB”) asked me to write a brief “peer-to-peer” article about an aspect of my business. I wrote about writing – specifically how The Schragazine was launched and eventually morphed into The Schlog and The Schrug. You can read the piece here, but for the full effect (including color photo […]

Thanks for reminding me, Andy Parkes. Yes, The Schlog is now two years (and a day) old. Your good wishes are most gratefully acknowledged.

If you’re getting The Schlog via RSS feed, you probably haven’t noticed anything different. But if you’ve been to www.theschlog.com (a.k.a. www.davidschrag.com/schlog), you’ve seen that there’s been a major makeover. The Schlog has been commercialized. I’m not under the illusion that putting ads on my blog is going to let me quit my day job. […]

A reader recently took me to task for not allowing comments on blog posts by unregistered users. My initial reaction was “Too bad — if you want to post something on my site, at least have the decency to tell me who you are and prove to me that you have a valid e-mail address.” […]

The Schlog’s first post appeared one year ago today. According to Feedburner, I’ve got somewhere between 90 and 115 subscribers. Thanks for being one of them.

I knew that the latest version of Windows Live Writer had a bunch of new features, including the ability to create new WordPress pages as well as posts. But when I tried to create a new page, I found the File menu item grayed out. To fix this, I went to Edit Weblog Settings … […]

This is old news, actually. It was released at the end of May. But WLW doesn’t have the highest profile among Microsoft applications. Because it’s free, perhaps? Anyway, you can read about the new features and download it here. Be sure to read about known issues here. And here’s a picture of the new GUI: […]

All of a sudden, Windows Live Writer was dead. When I tried to post something, I got: Network Connection Error Error attempting to connect to weblog at: http://davidschrag.com/schlog/xmlrpc.php The remote server returned an error: (406) Not Acceptable. I did some research and found this suggestion at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/121259?replies=4: create an empty text file. put this in […]

I don’t demand 100% uptime from web hosts. I expect it, but I understand that things happen. So it took not one, not two, not three, but at least four site-down situations before I gave up on ANHosting / midPhase, the original host of The Schlog and The Schrug. And those were just the outages […]

This is Schlog post #100. Woo-hoo! I have a lot on my mind and I don’t mind saying it publicly, but I have the good sense to realize that most people who come here for technology information don’t give a damn about what is going on with the rest of my life. So as a […]