What I did to get it running:

pip install pelican
git clone git://github.com/pydanny/pydanny.github.com.git

My settings.py file:

AUTHOR = 'Daniel Greenfeld'
DISQUS_SITENAME = 'pydanny'
GITHUB_URL = 'https://github.com/pydanny'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS='UA-18066389-2'
SITEURL = 'http://pydanny.github.com'
SITENAME = 'pydanny'
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/pydanny'),
          ('github', 'https://github.com/pydanny'),
          ('facebook', 'http://www.facebook.com/daniel.greenfeld'),)
TAG_FEED = 'feeds/%s.atom.xml'
THEME='notmyidea'
TWITTER_USERNAME = 'pydanny'

How I push up entries and pages and themes:

pelican . -o . -s settings.py
git commit -am "blogging here"
git push