Minor blogger glitches
Titaniumgeek brought up a minor issue with regard to blogger-powered blogs that I had noticed before, but hadn't paid sufficient attention to earlier. It is about having to "refresh" the browser before the changes appear on the blog.
I guess the reason is simple enough. Unless systems like WordPress or bBlog (which you install on your own server and are live scripts) Blogger doesn't use dynamic server side scripting like PHP or MySQL to generate its page every time you request it. It has to "publish" the blog into HTML once you make the changes. So although the web page is technically updated, your browser doesn't recognize it since the older page has already been cached. With dynamic blogs the server side script when executed automatically loads the blog from the database each time it is requested and so you don't have this problem.
This is a minor issue, but quite annoying in the long run. Hopefully blogger will come up with ways to avoid this problem in future.
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Peer pressure, eh.
It's easily hackable, since it's all GPL as well. Makes it really easy to install on systems you have a web presence on without having access to mysql or any other database. Just need PHP and a webserver.
I noticed that drew's recommendation of http://www.simplephpblog.com/ is a very basic blogging system and doesn't have things like RSS feeds and so on. Of course it's nice for people who don't have database space on their server or other limitations.
It's really up to you. But you can't go too wrong with WP.