I've been toying with the idea of creating a blog for quite some time and finally decided to take the plunge in 2008. I had been looking for blogging platform that I could deploy on my host (www.godaddy.com) and that was written in a .NET language (preferably C#). When I stumbled upon BlogEngine.NET (http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/) I knew it would fit the bill. It was designed with extensibility as a goal, and out of the gate seemed to be quite hackable. So far BlogEngine.NET has been a snap to install and configure. I've been able to tweak the themes and have so far been able to make small code adjustments to the theme master pages. I am going to explore the creation of some small extensions that will help add some additional functionally to BlogEngine.NET that I believe my wife will be able to take advantage of on her instance of BlogEngine.NET.