Lhmdesign has an excellent write-up [1] on how the website was redesigned with Drupal with great tips for bloggers using Drupal. A couple of tips I found extremely useful:

• Listing categories in a sidebar - Create a custom block and set the input type to “PHP Code” and use this code to list categories [2]
• Removing "not verified" from guest comments - Drupal puts a "not verified" text next to the name of the comment author if the author is not a registered user. Here is how to remove “not verified” text if you are using phpTemplate as your theme engine [3].

Read the entire article to get great ideas on how to set up your blog using Drupal.