After running my blog for the past two years on Subtext, I finally decided to move everything over to the new BlogEngine 1.4 platform.  What a great idea that was!

Check out the new look!  Marvel at the clean lines and smooth transitions!  See how responsive the pages are?  Nice.  

The main reason I'm excited about this product (other than the fact that it's free) is the elegant simplicity of the BlogEngine design, which makes it a breeze to customize and add your own extensions.  Kudos to Mads Kristensen and the entire BlogEngine team for producing a truly great blogging platform.    

If you haven't heard of BlogEngine, and you host your own blog, then you should definitely check it out.  It's based on ASP.NET 2.0, and therefore takes full advantage of all the latest .NET features, like master pages, page caching, etc.  It also uses XML files to store the blog posts, which makes it much easier to manage since it doesn't rely on a SQL database.  It also has a drag-and-drop "widget" framework (a lot like web parts), and built-in support for semantic processing via APML and other similar formats.   There are lots of other features that I won't go into here, but you get the idea - I like it much!

You'll notice that things have moved around a bit and I've streamlined some of the pages to make it easier to navigate the site.  If you find something is amiss - broken links, or other problems, please drop me a line so I can straighten it out.  I'm planning quite a bit of new content for the coming months, so I need to make sure everything is working the way it should.  So far, it's looking pretty good.