After maintaining this blog for 15 months, I missed a week. Not just late, or later than I would have liked, I missed a whole week, as in "I forgot". Oh well, if MST had the badges working for more than three months it might have even mattered to someone besides me.
I believe the Perl Iron Man contest is "unofficially" over. Basically it has reached its goal of increasing awareness and blogging activity in the Perl world. So don't get your hopes up on any major fixes :)