I guess after the first three weeks of ai-class.com, judging from the several stability adventures, the makers of the site could offer the knowledge of that course as well ;-)
Maybe I didn't get something about this static blog generating trend thing, but what would be wrong about having a 'normal' database-backed blog software that simply renders the pages staticly to a file (as it is an option with Rails caching) ? That would work with some simple inexpensive DB like SQLite, but still leave the system flexible and easy to edit with a backend.