Even though I have not kept up my blog, I really like blogspot, as its free and you can do a lot with it.
I don't know Tynan, is getting a host really worth the $7/mo than Blogspot which is free and you can put whatever template you want on blogspot.
Also, through live.com you can get a free domain and you could probably forward that domain to the blog. So if I have bigsend.com I could have it forward to bigsend.blogspot.com.
Truth is, I just like free things :)