What Jaq said.

Of course Blogger isn't an ideal solution. It gets messed up all the time. Archives go up and down. Permalinks are often broken.

And I'm too poor to move to any of the other solutions. Alas. Even TypePad will probably cost more than what we can budget.

Jaq was reacting to a long screed by Steven den Beste. Why does Steven have to eviscerate Blogger?

There are work-arounds for most of the Blogger-imps. You don't have to lose your whole archive (probably the guy didn't really lose them anyway. They can just be hard to get to.). Any of us couldback up our archives pretty easily. Seems reasonable.

Yes, Blogger goes down a lot. But it's free.

CityDesk sounds great. The WYSIWYG editor sounds great.

Here's the work-around for losing entries, especially if you're on a budget. Just ctrl-A, ctrl-C before you post (ctrl-enter). Then you've got a copy of what you said on the clipboard if anything goes wrong. This works for the free commenting systems, too. Even better, download a clipboard extender (I have finally settled on Yankee Clipper III and like it very well.) Then it's on the clipboard for good if you want to go back to it. I have found this is a cheap and easy way to avoid ever having to lose an entry. It becomes an easy habit.

You don't usually have to manually republish your archives to get them to work, and certainly not after every post.

Another advantage of Blogger is that, for all it warts, many of us don't want to get into server management, locally or remotely. Sure, we could probably learn it, but for whatever reason, and not just financial, we don't want to mess with it. One of mine is: I probably spend too much time logging as it is. I don't need to invest anymore time or money in it. In fact, I could really stand to be a little more judicious in my surfing and logging.