Tech Talk at ShieldsGroup

OK — maybe it’s not hidden, but when I was trying to add http://danledford.blogspot.com to my personalized Google page by selecting, “Add by URL”, the system said, “Page not found.”

This made no sense to me since I was able to load Dan’s other page: http://gluttonyisasin.blogspot.com. I looked all over both pages and saw no information about where the rss link might be. I thought, “How do I find the RSS feed on a blogspot page?”

So I guessed. It’s here: http://danledford.blogspot.com/rss.xml. It’s probably the same place for all blogspot pages. Why they don’t place an RSS link on the page is a mystery only Google knows.

Last month I read that Yahoo! was going to give users unlimited email storage. This pleased me as I am currently using about a third of my Gmail account (I delete next-to-nothing) and my usage is growing faster than Gmail’s automatic increase.

Since reading that, when I log into my Yahoo account, I’ve seen the bar-graph at 6%. Today, I looked and it was 30%. That caught my attention and made be stop what I was doing to ponder how I managed to receive that much email overnight. But as I gazed upon the 30% bar-graph, I saw a wire coming from it to a Wile E. Coyote kind of blasting plunger. Within a few moments a fine looking animated man came upon the scene and pressed the plunger, eliminating the bar-graph. Mousing-over it revealed the words, “You now have unlimited storage.”

Woo-hoo!!! Thanks, Yahoo!

This morning, I was greeted by yet another Microsoft error. It came from Outlook 2003 and read like this:

“There was a problem reading one or more of your reminders. Some reminders may not appear. Cannot locate recurrence information for this appointment.”

I found a fix online that instructed me to go through every active and recurring appointment, opening and re-saving each one until I, by chance, found the one giving the system grief.

Here’s what I did:

1. Select the Calendar Folder.
2. On the View menu, point to “Arrange By” then “Current View” and then “Recurring Appointments”.
3. Open each appointment. Open the recurrence. Then save it.

When you try to open the damaged item, it will give you an error message. When you get this error message, delete the damaged appointment. Then close and reopen Outlook and see if the error is gone. I had to do this twice because I had two damaged recurring appointments.

If you have exceptions to appointments (days skipped, etc.) when you re-save them, you’ll get a message that says, “Any exceptions associated with this recurring appointment will be lost. If any of the exceptions are meetings, the attendees will not be notified. Is this OK?” I guess it has to be, huh?