One of my passions besides technology is the guitar. I've played guitar off
and on for the past 15 years (even taking 2 years of classical guitar lessons in
college), but have recently started playing quite a bit again. To coincide with
playing again, I've started a blog for guitar-related news and information: www.theguitarblog.com. There isn't much
content there right now, but I'll be adding content over the next few weeks. I'd
love to hear other guitar players' thoughts on the site, such as what type of
info you'd like to see, etc. So, if you play guitar, then let me know what you
think.
As far as site technology goes, I decided to try Wordpress for the site. Although I love .NET
and won't be abandoning it any time soon, I was intrigued by the recent 1.5 release and
wanted to check it out. I also wanted a reason to play around with MySQL, which Wordpress uses for the back-end
database. I found installing Wordpress to be extremely simple; the 5-minute install
lived up to its name. Additionally, Wordpress provides a pretty robust
administration console that is easy to use. If you're looking for an easy-to-use
blogging system and you don't have access to SQL Server or .NET, then I would
recommend looking into Wordpress.