well, i figured it out myself. maybe this is already posted somewhere, but i sure can't find it.
forgive me if this is old news:
if anyone wants to have the journal entries show the latest entry first, open up journal.php and find the following code:
PHP Code:
$fentries = $DB_site->query("
SELECT journal_entries.entry_id, journal_entries.entrytitle,
journal_entries.entrytext, journal_entries.mood, journal_entries.allowbuddies,journal_entries.entrydate,
journal_entries.entry_totalvotes, journal_moods.mood_name, journal_entries.ipaddress,journal_moods.mood_image, journal_entries.entry_totalrating,
journal_entries.private, journal_entries.whocanview,
COUNT(journal_comments.comment_text) AS comments
FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."journal_entries AS journal_entries
LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."journal_comments AS journal_comments ON (journal_entries.entry_id=journal_comments.entry_id)
LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."journal_moods AS journal_moods ON (journal_moods.mood_id=journal_entries.mood)
WHERE journal_entries.journal_id='".$j."'
AND entry_active='1'
GROUP BY journal_entries.entry_id
ORDER BY entrydate ASC
in the last line, change ASC to DESC