reverse order: most recent posts on index

Is there any way to customize the main page (index.php) so that it displays the most recent posts (already the default) but also displays these in ascending order?

I.e., assuming I’ve made a post a day for every day of the year up to now (Dec 16), I want the front page of my blog to look like:

Dec 7 2005
Dec 8 2005
Dec 9 2005
:
Dec 16 2005

I am aware of modifications that will reorder all posts, e.g.:

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/16291

but this results in an index page that begins with the very first post ever, which is NOT what I want.

Also, I want a modification that only modifies the ‘index’… (I’ve already made modifications for the archives, which was easy to do. If you care — I just manually creating new links, e.g., ?m=200512&order=asc).

Seems like this would be easy to do, but can’t seem to find any information about it. 🙁

I’m using the default theme (‘Kubrick’) and WP 1.5. Thanks in advance!!