Now that I'm back home and semi-settled in (I arrived home last night after an 11-day trip) I finally had the chance to get my new rating control (ver 1.0.1.0) up on my blog.  What was reassuring was that it went in seamlessly...not a single hitch.  I simply ran the db script against the server, copied in the new .dll and updated the web.config and just like that it was up and running (in total, it took about 3 minutes).  I also took the time to put the 'Top Rated Posts' control on the home page.  Because I have so few rated articles I set the minimum # of votes to 1, but over time, I'd like to have to increase that number.

Don't forget, the control is free and available for use on your .Text blog site.