Live and Learn

Live and learn, the animated gif is updated automatically! Just need a bit of patience.

And the benefit of using Feedburner is that it keeps very informative statistics about your feed! Of course adapting awstats you could get statistics on your feed as well, and you could keep the hits coming to your server, BUT you couldn't get as detailed statistics as feedburner has. So, like so many things in life, see what's best in which context.