After looking through a bunch of different css templates and spending some time looking through Wordpress as a possible blogging option I suddenly remembered that one of my friends had set up a nice and clean php based blog.

He directed me to the project page on sourceforge for Simple PHP Blog. It was simple to set up and I've only had a few minor glitches with it so far with folder permissions and one page corruption.

I'm going to keep going with this and see how I like it over the next few days.