Abandon LiveJournal! Wordpress or Pyblosxom?

So, I've been looking into ways of running a "proper" blog, and I've come down to PyBlosxom or Wordpress. In either case, I'll get my own hosting for it.

Advantages of PyBlosxom over Wordpress:

• Keeps entries in text files. I fear databases.
  
• Seems to have a better security record than Wordpress.
  
• In Python, so hackable and I'd feel I'd have some hope of understanding what it's doing (Wordpress is in PHP).

Advantages of Wordpress over PyBlosxom:

• Very active developer community, so lots of nice plugins. (PyBlosxom isn't abandoned but doesn't have so many people working on it).
  
• More themes, some of which are pretty (PyBlosxom has a few themes in their repository, none of which are that pretty).

Anyone who's used either of those care to comment?