The Ekpyrotic Universe

Does anyone out there know of blogging software that can be used to integrate a simple blog on an asp-based website? Surely some of you know! I asked before, but am assuming the question was buried in a larger post.

This is the first time I've ever been glad I listened to the fund-raising drivel on NPR. One of the enticements they're offering is a nifty little bit of technology.

It is a flash drive with a button and probably a microphone or perhaps just an internal clock. I'm guessing as to how this works because they certainly didn't explain it. If you're listening to NPR and you hear a story you like and want to go back to later, you push the button. When you next to go a computer, insert the flash drive and you get a list of bookmarks that will take you to the stories you wanted to listen to again or read about on-line.

I figure they're managing this in one of two ways.

1. They're transmitting the url during the story on a frequency you can't hear in computer code and when you press the button it records that bookmark
   
2. When you press the button it makes a note of the time and when you go on-line it matches that time to the station log to see what they were playing at the time and gives you the bookmark.
   

1. Transmission Method
   
   
   
   • Positive
     
     
     
     1. Is more accurate
        
     2. You don't have to go to their site before you find out what the bookmarks are.
        
     
     
   • Negative
     
     
     
     1. There are more technical hurdles
        
     2. There's more to set up and maintain
        
     3. Harder to move to other stations in the NPR network
        
     
     
   
   
2. Clock Method
   
   
   
   • Positive
     
     
     
     1. Flash drive is simpler
        
     2. No transmission needed
        
     3. Easy to pass to other stations
        
     
     
   • Negative
     
     
     
     1. More likely to have mismatches if button is pushed at end or beginning of story
        
     2. Must go to NPR site to see bookmarks
        
     
     
   
   

Either way it is a cool bit of technology. I'm hoping it uses the transmission method 'cause I think that's a little cooler.

Before I get too involved in describing the problem I'm having, let me ask if anyone out there might know what I'm talking about.

I'm attempting to enable PHP under IIS.

When I try to run my (prewritten) php page, I get an error of

PHP Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\HRWiki\pmwiki\pmwiki.php on line 535

I may be setting up the Internet Guest Account improperly. It is pretty clearly a permissions problem, but I'm not sure what I need to do.


Before I go describing this in more detail, does anyone think they can help?