Joshua Sigar

You could use the following template tag
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_get_archives

and set the type to postbypost

What’s the error msg exactly now? Call to undefined function: get_option?

So far I haven’t seen plugin-specific error msg. You may need to delete WP files and the upload new ones.

edit: Just tested the plugin myself with wp beta; it just worked.

How do you exclude asides category from showing up in the main blog?

If there is no such plugin, how would I go about doing so?
Make the plugin. Read the doc on codex; the filter you want to use is ‘create_user_query’

Too much maintenance if you switch theme everyday. In that case, a plugin that utilize the hook wp_head can maintain a single source that could be included in any active theme.

Put the snapshot in excerpt field; put the video in post field.

When you display the list, display it as a list of excerpts.

At glancing the code, it seem that there are two entry points to feed content. Anyway, just check for either condition.

if (is_feed() || $doing_rss) {
...
}

You can use the following plugin. You’d write an “About Me” page (which includes text and photo), and use the plugin to display its content on the front page.
http://guff.szub.net/get-a-post