I have used MSN Spaces for a while now, and it is pretty cool. I like the photo albums and the lists, and of course the integration with MSN Messenger so people can see when it has been updated.
However, I am trying this as an experiment; I wanted to try out a proper grown up blogging tool. :-)
Had some fun setting it up. For a while I couldn't get a lot of the sub-pieces working (comments, permalinks) etc. This is because dasBlog re-writes URLs and has an HTTP Handler to cope with that. This means that the URL you visit doesn't really exist and is mapped by some code. Unfortunately my hosting provider doesn't allow "non-existant" URLs and instead returns a 404 before the handler kicks in. So, I took a look through the source code and realised I had missed a really obvious dasBlog config setting to turn off URL rewriting! Now it all seems to be working...
