After smoothing a out a few issues that dasBlog has, this blog is now functional. dasBlog requires that the user under whose permissions ASP.Net is running was write permissions to the folders - content, logs and siteconfig. On a win 2003 box ASP.Net runs as \NETWORK SERVICE.

So what you need to do, if you are setting up dasBlog, is to allow wirte permissions to our 3 folders.

This is also fine time to roll out some links:

Channel 9
Some folk at MS have dished out Channel 9. Channel 9 is where you can see into the big borg entity of MS and maybe come away with the feeling that they are not a big borg entity at all.
http://channel9.msdn.com/

IronPython: Python is being shifted to .Net by Jim Hugunin.
He is the same person who developed Jython, the Java implementation of python. .Net has been for sometime considered a difficult platform to shift to for dynamic languages such as Python and Ruby. Ruby might be a tad bit more difficult beacuse of all the tricks it does with continuations, closures, iterators and such.

http://www.hole.fi/jajvirta/weblog/20031210T0901.html
I'd guess that anyone who reads this weblog also reads Jeremy Hylton's weblog (which is in my opinion currently perhaps the best technical Python related weblog), but I still thought it was worthwhile to mention that the great Jim Hugunin has a new project, named IronPython, which is an implementation of Python for the Microsoft Common Language Runtime environment. The remarkable thing is that IronPython runs faster than the Python implementation in C according to the pystone benchmark. (See Hugunin's original message for full details.)