changes

a) blogrolling.com was way too unreliable and sluggish. i thus replaced it by the previous simple but reliable and fast link list. my suggestion to the blogrolling-gang: use active tracking of changes instead of just relying on pings.

b) added a new plugin called simplecomments. it treats trackbacks (“pings”) as comments which makes it handy for creating “last comments/pings” listings. the relevant code on this site is:

<div class="sidetitle">
Latest comments/pings
</div>

<div class="side">
<MTSimpleComments lastn="5" sort_order="descend">
&lt:MTSimpleCommentIfTrackback>
<a name="trackback-<MTPingID>"></a>
 » <b><a href="<MTPingURL>"><MTPingBlogName></a></b> 
 (<a href="<$MTPingURL$>"><$MTPingTitle$>..</a>)<br />
</MTSimpleCommentIfTrackback>
<MTSimpleCommentIfComment>
<a name="comment-<MTCommentID>"></a>
 » <b><$MTCommentAuthorLink$></b> 
<MTCommentEntry>
 (<a href="<$MTEntryLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$>..</a>)
</MTCommentEntry><br />
</MTSimpleCommentIfComment>
</MTSimpleComments>
</div>

c) added a category archive and a listing of category mappings for each entry. further added some numbers for counting entries per category and per month.