Tomorrow in Oz 

I wonder if anything could be done about the problem Hil has (and other people on the other side of the planet would have) with the timestamp on her blog. The index page is always a day behind. To see the newest posts you have to take the link for the next day on the calendar. Would there be an easy way to make the time zone a preference? I don't understand what's going on under the hood with this. Maybe it's a server thing for all I know.

I wonder why more Australians haven't checked out the editor. Maybe they have and they just don't make blogs so we wouldn't know about it unless they post on the mailing lists and happen to mention it.

Poor Hil, she lost her birthday once crossing the International Dateline.

Later: it doesn't happen for the whole day, apparently. I just checked it at 1 p.m. Central time on Saturday and it's showing Saturday. She's like, 17 hour ahead of me, so there would be some part of the day, not most of it, when the days would be in sync.

Selling instant outlining 

Donovan said, "i've got my opml editor open and am typing notes into my client outline. once i convince my partner to install the opml editor, we can just subscribe to our own private i/o's and really get things done."

I know. I've tried evangelizing instant outlining at work. It's a tough sell because it's not like anything anyone has even heard of before. It would be so perfect for my workgroup of writers, editors and designers -- to always know where each team member is on each story for each issue for each publication would be so useful for everybody if they could only see it. I want to grab them by the collective collar and shake them into willingness, but that approach might fall flat, mightn't it?

Maybe it's a screencast, for our Grok section, Donovan. Demonstrate a collaboration conversation. I'd play the other party if you wanted to do it.

Domain available 

Schripting dot almost anything. Try saying it. You'll laugh at yourself. It's funny.