Finally
10 months after I bought this domain name and starting paying for webhosting, I'm up and running. The blog publishing software is installed, and better yet - it seems to be working. I'm hoping to make this site my main blog, but also to use it for a lot of additional content that you can't really do on a livejournal or blurty page. The majority of this will concern music.
Now, I suppose I should start reading the HTML/CSS book I bought over the summer in order to pretty this thing up...