Blog Implementation

Rather than writing my own blog software from scratch I'm using BlogEngine.NET. This seemed like a natural choice because its both open source and written in ASP.NET. This solves all the little problems that I would have to solve were I to write my own from scratch plus it leaves the door open for me to customize since its open source. The initial setup is very easy and it basically works out of the box once uploaded to a server and after configuring a couple things.  I'm using Windows Live Writer to author the posts and a code snippet plugin to format code.