I am taking a third stab at this whole blogging thing. I am no novice this time around and I think I know what I want out of my blogging setup. The first foray was with .Text a couple years back and was fun but got frustrating since the comments system didn't have built-in Captcha support.
I decided to switch to Windows Live Spaces. That was also fun, but had its drawbacks as well. Eventually, I ran out of image space (which I realized when old posts started showing images from newer ones). Having moved out to Washington state to work for MS, settling in and getting into the thick of things at work took priority over blogging.
Here's the third foray. DasBlog gets contributed to and used by the never sleeping Scott Hanselman, which gives me plenty of confidence that it works well for even high volume blogging.
So I hope third time's the charm....