I have a personal blog on Blogger, which I never felt very easy about. Writing and posting on the Blogger interface and having all the content at their server and not having the posts on a version control etc., all made me uncomfortable.
Then, I discovered GitHub pages and Octopress and everything felt very natural.
Brent Simmons had written all about this static site generation and blogging system back in
- 2009: New publishing system / tour of my head
- and 2011: A plea for baked weblogs
- and: More on baked blogs