Blogger.com: sayonara

I sent this plea for help to a blogger friend tonight, but I thought it was worth broadcasting in any case:

Blogger.com has been a rudderless ship for some time now. No humans are noticeably running that service since Google bought it.

Tonight they sent me 2 identical emails explaining that their "publish via FTP" feature is just too much darn work for their engineers to maintain (I'm not shitting you) [note that the current FTP standard is unchanged from 1985 - but is evidently nonetheless too challenging for blogger.com's engineers to handle] and so I'll have to stop hosting my blog at my own site and start hosting it over on their servers.

Despite the fact that I rarely blog, I say "fuk dat". My data is mine and stays on my server, especially since their service sucks in so many ways and I don't trust them. For something like a year I've had a warning on my control panel that says my blog will be deleted in 20 days because it's a spam blog (but the remedies they suggest go nowhere, and there is no way to contact a human).

Do you know of another service I can use that also has a working importing tool? I briefly tried wordpress (again, about a year ago) but their advertised importing tool seemed broken...

Help!

So there we have it. How can I get my blog off this service and on to somewhere safe, that works?