what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?
jhancock: I wanted an easy to admin wordpress site and picked dreamhost.com as its just about as turn-key as I needed.  Backups, upgrades all work seamlessly.  This gave me the added benefit that for a fixed price per year, I can host other people's wordpress sites on the same plan.  Turns out I have several friends that want a site but know nothing about running one, so I do it for them.For a wp theme that looks good and has flexibility and support, I picked http://diythemes.com/thesis/