Whatever glitch I had in my OPML Editor disappeared and my OPML Blog is up - so far it only has a few test posts and a new header graphic (the Wellington Skyline). I'm not sure what I'll use the OPML site for - may just playing around with opml / xml / enclosures.

FYI - OPML is an XML format for Outlines.

From Dave Winers extensive background developing Outliners (More), Scripting Environments (Frontier) and web-authoring tools (Manila, Radio Userland etc) - the new OPML Editor looks very similar to his past work (if you've used Frontier a lot of the OPML Editor is very familiar). Outlining is a great way to structure almost any kind of list or hierarchy which readily lends itself to authoring web pages.

You can even use OPML Editor with your own web server or Wordpress hosted site - details here for Wordpress and here for hosting your own OPML community server.

I love this story of completing a Notes Server upgrade in three hours (most of the time was copying the mail files). Upgrading Exchange is a major nightmare.

On a related note - Ed Brill also points to this weblog by Alan Lepofsky containing useful Notes / Domino hints and tips.

If you didn't already know Word 5 for DOS is a free download from Microsoft. Handy if you want a powerful word processor on your USB toolkit. Although getting it to uncompress and setup does seem to be a hassle. Actually you can still get some classic DOS based word processors - XyWrite still seems to have a following and heres Wordperfect.

If you're after a tool to act as a 'brain-dump' repository try NeoMem - I think I might use it in place of KeyNote which I've used in the past but doesn't seem to handle graphics and password protection very well.

Looks like Firefox 1.5 has been release (no announcement yet) but check one of these mirrors.