I'm trying something a little different. The monthly archives are now sorted chronologically in ascending order, rather than descending order; the earliest item appears at the top, not the latest item.

It's a small thing, but it seems more sensible. Whenever I hit someone's blog to try to catch up on what they've been writing, I prefer to do it chronologically, so I can see stories unfolding the same way the writer did. But that means reading from the top down within an item, but from the bottom up from one item to the next. Start at the top of an entry, scroll down as I read to the bottom, then farther back up tot he top of the next story, scroll down as I read to the bottom of that story, etc. It's a pain in the tuchus.

Not a big deal, since my archives are kind of scanty, but I'm hoping to start a trend. It's not that difficult to do, either. If you'r eusing Movable Type, edit the Date-Based Archive template, look for the <MTEntries> tag, and change it to <MTEntries sort_order="ascend">.

Let me know what you think. And if anyone has directions on how to do it with other blog software, let me know and I'll add it to this post.