I'm late - everyone blogs nowadays. But then there is a question on where to host and what tool to use to produce it? Buying domain name was easy, and I already had quite a lot of personal web space to spare. But my personal web space can not contain any kind of active content, just plain old (x)html. So, all of the easy to use blogging tools that rely on active technologies like php or asp (some even require database backend) were out of the question. What's left? Why, good old do-it-youself. Start with the xml schema for the content (this will make editing really easy in a good xml editor), generate xhtml using simple xslt, do the same for rss feed and style your pages with css. Very few files, easy to (re)generate whole site if necessary (with possibly different structure and/or look and feel), easy to backup, easy to maintain. Of course, wife pleasing factor was very low, since I wasted several evenings making the damn thing ;) I'm pleased with the result, though - site works and looks good on all browsers I could try it on (IE, Mozilla Firebird, Opera) which shouldn't come as a surprise considering I've made substantial effort to be standards conformant.