David, I would think that you should write stuff that is interesting to you first and foremost. In fact, I think that writing what is interesting to you will generate an audience of similar taste, which will enable you to engage in a meaningful dialogue with your audience. That's my $.02, fwiw.

I appreciate that you'll at least think about it. All I really *need* (well, technically I don't *need* anything, I *could* continue doing my weekly activity reports in MS Word, but that's just such a pain, putting somewhere on the intranet is SO much easier for everyone) is some sort of journaling tool that I can use to document my daily work activities so that the boss can use it for his weekly activity reports to management. Most everyone in the office keeps theirs in Word documents and submits them weekly, but for a while I had set mine up on a web site running on my machine running a PHP based blog tool called pMachine. A network scan discovered that I was running PHP and I was told that PHP was not allowed to run on the local network, so I had to nix that. So basically I'm just looking for an ASP or ASP.NET based web application that will allow me to create categories, and make entries within those categories to keep track of my daily work.



Now, if you've got an entire portal framework that included an events and tasks calendar, something like that could be very useful for our entire group here at work. At the moment we have no way of tracking vacations or time out-of-office that everybody has access to, and everyone pretty much just sends out an e-mail to everyone else letting them know when they'll be out. A bit overkill IMHO.



The only question I would have about how the framework works would be whether or not I could setup the framework at a higher level on the web server than my own personal directory, and then within the framework create a "blog" for myself that would be restricted to just me, and not the entire group. Did that make sense? I hope so, if not, let me know and I think I could clarify it a bit.



So I guess that would be my requirements really. Nothing too elaborate really as far as what I *need* - but I'll take elaborate if it's available, heh.

You need to have an audience to blog? heh. Just kidding. I know what you mean. Personally though, I'm not sure I put that much thought into the things that I blog. Well, I guess sometimes I do, but it's only a small factor for the most part though. In a lot of cases, I am my own audience on my blog. I blog a lot of stuff that's pretty much just so I can reference it again in the future, because I know it's something that I want to remember for myself. For what it's worth, consider me part of your audience, I always read your blog (subscribed), and would love to see some more technical content, specifically .NET stuff. Just a thought.



On a *completely* unrelated note, I wanted to ask a question about your blog app. I'm not quite proficient enough with ASP.NET to have built one of my own yet (although I've started, it's just coming along *very* slowly), but I have a need for a tool to use at work for keeping track of my daily work activities. My options are somewhat limited in which tools I can use, as it must be hosted on IIS, PHP and Perl are not allowed, so that limits me to blog engines written in pretty much either ASP or ASP.NET. .Text won't work here because of a limitation it has with domain name prefixes, and I've not been able to get DasBlog working effectively here. Sssoooo....I was wondering what the possibility would be of maybe getting a copy of your blog engine that I could use. Any possibility of that? I don't need source code, the binaries are fine (couldn't do much with source anyway, as I don't have VS here at work). Thanks.