Need simple conditional tag help in the loop

Hi all,

I have this in my sidebar to show asides, but it isn’t working:

<?php
	if (is_single()) {
		query_posts('category_name=asides&showposts=3');
	} else {
		query_posts('category_name=asides&showposts=10');
	?>

What am I doing wrong? It breaks my theme on the index page, and just doesn’t display the asides on the single posts. Any ideas?

🙂

David