I remember trying b2 out early in the development and finding the installation on hosted server space a bit complicated. I had a few gremlins as well about the navigation from article/archive/index pages.
Tried later when it was wordpress and used wp to publish the vanity page from October 2004 to February 2010 my backups tell me. I used MoveableType and Greymatter[2] as well - anyone remember those?
Went back to old school static web pages about 4 or 5 years ago, mainly because I wasn't writing much and keeping the scripts up to date was getting to be a drag...