I've hacked a new stylesheet (not much different from the default) and done a lot of cleaning on the generated CSS, especially in the sidebar.
markdown processing now works for articles - see Fixing Sidebars for details.
Looks like markdown processing doesn't come with Debian 3.1's nanoblogger. So I lifted the plugin from the 3.3 distribution, and fitted it in :-) The downside is that I now have an unpackaged file on the OS - the upside is that it's simple, auditable, and useful!
Many moons ago, I created a page with a list of anachronistic Latin phrases, taken from one of Henry Beard's books. It's been well-linked over time, and Google pushed up it's PageRank. I still get the occasional email from people assuming that I must have good Latin skills – but I don't :(
Looks like Wikipedians have been hard at work on Latin (as I guess you'd expect), and there's now a good page to help you find standard phrases - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28full%29