Back at last!
Well I finally found some time to get my diary/journal back into play - off Blogger, and onto Moveable Type (http://www.moveabletype.org).
Moveable Type seems rather good so far - the amount of functionality - TalkBack pings, weblogs.com pings etc. - all seem far in advance of what I’ve been used to so far. And no more keeping fingers crossed that the Blogger API hasn’t broken…