So David Chappel is blogging. No, not that David Chappel.

I’ve seen David speak at several MSFT events – both internal and external. He’s great. Only downer is that he’s using Blogger which doesn’t support RSS. But Web2RSS has created a feed for him.

I downloaded and installed the new NewsGator trial in a VPC to see how it looks. Maybe I’m still getting used to this whole Outlook news reader thing, but I don’t understand why NewsGator continues to flatten my OPML hierarchy. RSS Bandit, SharpReader and intraVnews all respect my hierarchy. I may not read as much as Scoble, but I am reading over 200 blogs these days and I like to categorize them. Favorites, GDN Workspaces, .NET bloggers, MSFT bloggers, Blogs I only scan the headlines of before I delete them, etc. But when I import that same OPML into NewsGator, it gets flattened into one big list of feeds. Apparently, you can manually move the folders around once they are created, but I’m not interested in doing that 200+ times.

Too bad, because the online services looked cool.

My teammate Simon has posted details of his managed SDK for Outlook codenamed Niobe. He’s also created a GDN workspace for it. Coolness.

I see from Jim, Rory and Scoble that there’s a “Weblog Meetup” on Wed. evening. It’s at a bowling alley. I hate bowling. I mean, I really hate it. As in I’d consider lighting myself on fire to get out of bowling. But this bowling alley has good beer and Wed is not karoke night. So I think I can make it.