I use WordPress for this blog (obvious from the URL I know!) and although I do not run my own version of it I do look at possible plugins from time to time.
These caught my eye this morning: http://wunder-ful.com/wordpress-plugins as it contains something that I wish I had on my blog .. date limits/ranges. There are scenarios where a blog is no longer relevant and should not be displayed in a feed or the blog page and WordPress has nothing to deal with this.
I tried the Posts Expire one on my own laptop and it works like a charm. I hope that WordPress put this one in the core app at some point so I can use it on this blog.