Advance and Be Mechanized

So I upgraded to WordPress 1.5 “Strayhorn”. The default look is very nice, but I wanted to personalize it a little bit so I took a picture of my "antique" Underwood and after some work with top-of-the-line publishing software (MS Paint) and some fiddling with the theme CSS I came up with the current "design".

So far I've found some good new features in Wordpress, the only thing that is bothering me is that when you go to a category the posts are truncated and what's worse, the links are gone in those summaries. OK, next time I'm bored I know what to do...
Update: I solved this issue by adding a link at the end of the excerpts.

I also found that in my WP database the wp_options table is the largest one, taking up 200 KB. The surprise is that the RSS feeds of the dashboard, while only showing the first tree or four lines of the WP developer's blog posts, it's adding ALL the contents of these posts with hundreds of lines; no big deal since I think I will only have the last three feeds in three rows but it's a waste and kind of intrusing to have something in my database that I didn't ask for.