I found setting up my bloglines account and subscribing to rss feeds to be rather easy. Once set up they certainly save time when you want to be up to date with all your favourite websites. Setting up the bloglines blog was no more difficult, once I realised I hadn't validated my email address that is.
I am currently using the draft version of blogger which has this great new tool which allows you to a My Blogs List where you can add your RSS feeds to your blog (they're on the right).

I decided that the stock templates available on blogger were simply too plain for my tastes, so I have installed a new one.
I had some trouble installing the new XML coding. Initially I was trying to copy and paste it without choosing to modify the layout first.
Once I realised I needed to midfy the layout first, it was pretty simple. Just use google to find a layout I liked, download the XML code, extract the files, and cut and paste in place of the original XML text (remebering to back up the original), simple!
Next step modifying the code to suit my particular tastes.