I was able to get a blog set up from my home computer. I had trouble at school because it said I had to enable javascript and cookies.
It was fun setting things up, yet at the same time hard to decide how much and what to add to my profile. I finally decided that I can just add stuff later as it suits my fancy.
It took me awhile to discover that I can click on the icon (orange B) in the upper left corner by my blog title to return to the screen I can work from.
I wasted a lot of time making an avatar, but it was fun. I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, a kayak or canoe, but the river background will do. When adding the avatar to my blog, under Layout, I had to click on "add a gadget", not "add a page element", then scroll way down to find HTML code.
