Lame. I don't post for seven days and my front page goes blank.

Thankfully, the Movable Type template tag MTEntries has other modes of operation, including one that shows the last several entries. The default mode is to show the last seven days' worth of entries, however, so it took an accidental blank to point this out. To enable the last-n behavior, add the "lastn" attribute:

<MTEntries lastn="5">

See the docs for more information. It's actually quite a powerful tag.

That, plus seven comment spams in the last few hours. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.