The story began when my wife asked me "Oh my lord, I want a blog." I was extremely happy to fulfil her request as now she can post her thoughts and save me listening :) . I answered, "My dear queen, I shall grant thee a weblog."
.NET blog engines for non-techies anyone? I found only two, BlogEngine.NET and dasBlog and they both don't suit her royal needs. What do the majority of bloggers use? WordPress? But that is PHP?! I'm not touching PHP, I wouldn't be happy if a mate of mine told me "So, Adam, you are using PHP." I, who spent hours arguing with the open source blokes, from university professors to collegues to online forums to developers in meetings.
I thought, what is more important? Turning down her highness' request or betray my oath to Microsoft and .NET community? And the answer, as you have already guessed, the second option.
And the moral of the story is? Check my wife's blog AboutXena.com with WordPress engine, let me know your thoughts and forgive me if you feel that I have betrayed you as a .NET Developer.