I'll be watching this closely, you are doign what I've been meaning to do for ages. I've 3 websites that really need to be turned into one or two at most.

I also set up a seperate 'blog (affable-lurking.org/blog) as a place for tech rants, reports and thesis wibble as well as the usual stuff that doesn't really fit with my usual LJ style of post (whatever that may be).

I'm sure I saw a wordpress plugin that did LaTeX, I may even have installed it myself. I'll have to check.