This blog was originally hosted using the “1&1 Blog” built-in WordPress installation from my web host. However this was designed for ease of use and did not give the full power and configurability of a full WordPress install.
I have now updated my hosting package to include MySQL databases and installed WordPress 2.8.6, these words are now being served by that install. One of the main reasons for this was so that I can install new plugins to allow such things as syntax highlighting for code examples.
I intend to make full use of these additional facilities in the future.