I experienced the power of the Blog for the first time last week.  An entry I wrote concerning HTTP Send Port timeouts and message re-transmits came home.  I got an email from somebody in my employer's government division regarding my post.  The 3rd party vendor they use for a procurement system has BizTalk as part of the solution.  they were seeing multiple message posts to a web service.  The tech support guy at the 3rd party vendor sent them a link to my blog.  The government division folks recognized my name and emailed me.  A short teleconference later and the problem was understood and solved.  Small wide world.

When I decided to start a blog, I looked around at what other people were doing.  I visited the community sites like Blogger and TypePad but always had it in the back of my mind to host my own.  Since I wanted my own domain and already had a shared hosting site, I settled on DasBlog.  Since it is file based, I didn't have to mess with SQL.  Just dropped the files in and modified some configs and it worked like a charm.  Within a few hours, I had modified the template to do a few things the way I wanted.  The documentation had a direct answer for every question I had and was clear enoug to allo wme to execute the mod in short order.

Anyone interested in DasBlog will be happy to know that version 1.9 is coming soon!