Omar, Scott Hanselman and the other contributors to the dasBlog project have released version 1.7, just in the nick of time for me to setup a blog.  

I had used a previous version with a lot of problems.   I read Scott Hanselman's blog on a daily basis and was amazed at the performance improvements he was able to get in the 1.7 enhancements.  I decided to wait as long as I could to get the 1.7 release, and if not then install 1.6.   At the last possible moment I noticed that 1.7 was out.