BlogEngine.Net 1.1 has been released. It's quite amazing how fast these guys have churned out the new release.

With my recent experiences in porting, chewing, and digesting dotnet projects, I kind of think that coding for Dotnet Framework V2.0 from scratch is lot easier than porting a complex system and maybe that is one of the few reasons for the quicker releases of the product (of course having an active development community and passionate project lead helps a lot).

Anyhoo, these guys are doing a fantastic job and I am planning to move to BlogEngine.NET after evaluating it out. Good going guys!

Well started with SubText (was done in framework 1.1), then moved to Wordpress (good community but had trouble with MySQL connection), then to DasBlog (still in V1.1) now finally to BlogEngine.NET (finally v2 product with source code, yipee). People! Man evolved from monkey! Any doubts there? :)

I came across this poem somewhere online and it was quite clean and simple in its message. I liked it and so posting it for future reference:

"There Is No Indispensable Man"
by Saxon N. White Kessinger, Copyright 1959

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego's in bloom
Sometime when you take it for granted
You're the best qualified in the room,

Sometime when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these simple instructions
And see how they humble your soul;

Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining
Is a measure of how you will be missed.

You can splash all you wish when you enter,
You may stir up the water galore,
But stop and you'll find that in no time
It looks quite the same as before.

The moral of this quaint example
Is do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.