I used Blosxom for several years, which is a Perl blogging system with a similar minimalist approach to blogging, and includes a static method of site generation so you can use it in the same way.

I switched off of it because WordPress has a lot more templates available, and my web design skills just aren't that great. But, I often think I'd like to give it another go. It is more fun to write in vim than a web based editor.