I started with blogger to make it as easy as painless as possible (also I didn't have time to manage or money to spend on a hosting provider or server). Now if

I started with blogger to make it as easy as painless as possible (also I didn't have time to manage or money to spend on a hosting provider or server). Now if I want to keep it as easy as possible, tumblr (although blogger has better Google indexing, even if Google denies it I have made some informal tests that kind of prove it.) If I want to tinker as much as possible without rolling my own system, Wordpress probably (of course now I have a virtual server). If I want to tinker as much as possible, deep in the guts, rolling my own with some templating system and the simplest thing that can generate categories and previous-next. Which of course could be as simple as a small set of bash-sed-awk scripts/programs.