The gurus over at the Movable Type support forum gave me the fix for my column problem — my layout is now set so that there will always be seven entries listed on the index page, no matter how long it’s been since a new one, so the right column will stay where it belongs on the right.

Of course, this means that I now have a license to not post for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time, but that’s just a formality, really. It’s not like I wasn’t doing that already anyway…