Web Hosting Update
It looks like 1 & 1 is the real deal. I got a base MT site up in about 20 minutes last night, including the time it took me to edit mt.cfg with the parameters for the backend MySQL server they've set me up with. I'm finalizing my file layout before I point alexharden.org there. This blog's base URL will change to http://alexharden.org/blog/ after the move.
The next thing I'm going to configure out there is Gallery. I don't plan on hosting a ton of pics, but as long as I keep recent ones out there, the grandparents will be happy.