Archives: 2007   May

The Schlog and The Schrug have a new home

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 [...]

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Posted in About The Schlog, All, Services, Technology, WordPress on May 28th, 2007, 8:05 pm by David Schrag     

Greetings from N’Awlins

A couple folks have made the point that one shouldn’t evaluate a conference immediately after it ends, because the true impact of the event can only be measured days, weeks, or months later. But I’ve got some time to kill before I have to get a cab to the airport, and chances are I’ll never [...]

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Posted in All, Business, Technology on May 28th, 2007, 11:04 am by David Schrag  1 comment   

Outlook 2007 RSS: I give up

FYI, I’ve officially given up on using Outlook 2007’s native RSS reader, at least until / unless there is a service pack for it. I got too many synchronization errors, slow load times, and who know what other problems that I didn’t even realize I should blame on the RSS feature.
I do this reluctantly, because [...]

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Posted in All, Office 2007, Software, Technology on May 27th, 2007, 11:34 am by David Schrag     

Schrugging it off

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 40th [...]

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Posted in About The Schlog, All, Friends and Family on May 13th, 2007, 6:26 am by David Schrag