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GitHub pages is great, but you'll probably want some time to play around with Jekyll. You can always use a hosted platform like Wordpress.com and switch off when you have more free time. Consider using Disqus for comments and Google Analytics for tracking if you want to be slightly more platform agnostic.

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Thanks for the suggestion - in fact, I'll use it! I think I'll setup a wordpress blog tonight and limit myself to about 30 minutes to get content on a vanilla page. Then tomorrow, and in the future as needed, I'll invest the time needed to get a more intensive platform established (like Octopress as mentioned in an earlier comment).

Yup, I enjoy Github Pages a lot - go ahead and download the Jekyll rubygem and muck about with it locally if you want to get grips on it fast.

I have a question - what do you find is the best way of hosting images for a Github Pages blog?

You can just put them in a static images/ folder and use a relative link pointing to '/images/test.jpg'.

In a pinch you can always fall back on http://imgur.com (but they'll delete images that don't get accessed for a long long time).

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