This is my first blog post using BlogEngine.NET 1.5. I've looked at several blog applications including Microsoft's forthcoming Oxite, dasBlog and Wordpress and frankly this just seemed a no-brainer:

• Setup was incredibly easy;
• It supports XML and SQL Server 2000/2005 as data stores;
• The code is open source; and
• It's .NET and I love .NET

So I guess I should mention that ... the offical site is www.dotnetblogengine.net but the ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex.