Looks like my ISP (Sonera) loves to boot my cable modem on first monday of each month at noon(ish). Must be something regarding deactivating those boxes who did not pay the bills.
Sonera: Not cool, guys!
The out-of-the-box experience was ok, but I wanted this blog not to look like just out-of-the box.
There are plenty of nice looking ready-made templates for Serendipity at http://serendipity-templates.org/. I just picked up one that will "catch the eye". I'm expecting comments like "whoa! what's that brown thing". Definitely not eye candy, but not too ugly.