My First Blog: critique of blogger.com post editor

Leave it up to the computer 'nerds' to screw up the basics,
despite all their proficiency with the advanced stuff.

I started my first blog, spent some quality time and energy
typing out a bunch of impressive sounding paragraphs, hit
preview, looked at what my post looked like, and, voila!,
when I attempted to get back to the blog editor, by hitting
the back button, everything I had typed had disappeared!
Great! Simply hitting the preview button, and viewing what
you have written in preview, wipes out all the hard work you
have done!

So you had better come to understand yet another fine
point that the so called 'nerds' expect you to grasp
instinctively, which is, that when you hit preview, you
HAD BETTER NOT hit the back button, to get back
to the editing window where the post you are working
on resides. No, you HAD BETTER hit HIDE PREVIEW
in the Preview window instead, or all will be for nought!

Then you have the strange fact that if you hit the
'Edit HTML' tab, to add some HTML whiz-bang
to what you have created in 'Compose' mode without
the use of HTML tags, what you are presented with in
'Edit HTML' mode, is simply the text you typed in
'Compose' mode, with all the HTML tags that make
the text you typed in 'Compose' mode look so hip
in preview, missing! One would think that upon
entering 'Edit HTML' mode, one would find
the entire HTML code that makes what one has
typed in 'Compose' mode look so cool in 'Preview',
so as to enable one to elaborate on said code. But
no, the computer 'nerds' strike again! Why? Why?
Why?

Then you have the fact that the blogger can put any
fictional time and date stamp on his blog post that
he wants to. Why? You would think that the time
and date stamp should be set so as to accurately
report the time and date of the blog post but no,
poetic license is allowed! I wonder whether they allow
those who add comments to other people's posts
to put whatever time and date stamp they want
on their posts also?

The problem with leaving the option for fictional
time and date stamping open is this that such,
seems to me, takes the glory out of things like
clever stock market recommendations and prophetic
dreams. If I report a dream of something happening
the day before it happens, how can such bring me
any kind of glory, if there is always the possibility
that I had simply back-dated the time and date
stamp on the post? At least with newsgroups and
emails, if there is a given time and date stamp
on the post or email, you can rest fairly confident
that the post/e-mail was indeed posted or sent
at the time and date stamped on it.

For the sake of convenience alone, you should be
able to put the current actual time in as the time-date
of the blog-post; yet, the way things now stand here
at blogger.com, you have to manually input the current
time-date before making the post.

Then you have the problem that, for obvious reasons,
you might want to save a draft of a blog-post before
you publish it. Yet when you save a draft before you
publish a post, you have to go through all this time
consuming rigamarole involving the page shifting
to the URL showing a list of your drafts and then
you having to click on edit in the drafts list to get
back to the editor to publish your post. Why? Why?
Why?