I'd love to do so. Although I may not be able to even look at the problem until next week. I have my time already slotted through the weekend.

I'd also like to suggest that we would be well served by cleaned up urls. Although I prefer date specific urls and Xian likes topic specific it doesn't matter to me except that I'd prefer we manage urls without the extensions in place. It really makes so much more sense.

What does "subscribe to this topic" do?

I've been meaning to add the "mail this entry" plugin

I was also thinking of adding the Technorati plugin that links to related stuff out there.

There's plenty of server space, so I don't think that's a problem. Are you just talkign about MT's facility for keeping a local copy of the template on the server, or a separate backing-up process?

I prefer date-and-keyword. Ideally I'd use the keyword field and ask us to make up a single-word keyword for each post to be used in teh URL (after the date), even though this requires an additional discipline. The current system of dirifying the titles is OK, but when a typo in the title is fixed this proliferates different versions of the page, which is bad.

Also, if we go to the keyword model, then do all the old entries have to be tagged or do we use logic to default to something else or what?

I'm willing to talk about the extensions. I've heard it both ways: Why specify HTML (especially when my server has PHP/mySQL setup and so the files could easily be PHP files) as the extension, doesn't that lock us into today's technology, etc. vs. What's so bad about .html?

Anyway, I have mod_rewrite running on my Apache server (as I blogged about recently), so if I learn how to use it, we should be able to start using extensionless URLs.