I thought I’d show off some photomanipulation today. This isn’t very exciting I know, and its pretty weird if I’m honest. This was from a dream I had years ago, The dream was a lot different but I found it hard to find exactly the right stock! The brick wall was a photo taken by me at Painshill park a few months ago, the rest was from sxc.hu.

ahh, the wordpress plugins post, another way of saying ‘I dont know what to blog about’ or in my case, ‘I have something to blog its just not ready yet’ It’ll be exciting though! (at least thats the plan!)

Sorry about the downtime yesterday – especially to all my hostees! May, Kai, Guy and Taylor. The server was being DOS’d apparently so they had to move us to a new IP. I guess thats the risk with shared hosting, if one person pisses off a hacker we’re all screwed! Now do you see why I don’t rely on my own server! I spent all of yesterday moving my files to my box.net account!

Without further ado, These are in no particular order.

1. Advanced Admin Menus
I worship this plugin! It converts all the sub links in your wordpress admin, under dashboard, write, manage etc into drop downlinks so you don’t have to click, presentations, wait for the page to load and then click theme editor. You just hover and select theme editor! Simple but SO effective.

2. Spotmilk
Beautiful with the above plugin – it makes the wordpress admin pretty, theres a blue theme and a black theme. (to get the black you uncomment a line of code – its easy enough to do)

3. Category Tagging
Creates a tag cloud with all your categories.

4. Comment Relish
Sends an email to a user on their first comment.

5. Digital Finger Print
Lets you find the people who steal your rss feed and display it on their site. You make up a random string of words and set up a custom google search to find them, if your reading my feed you’ll see some random words at the top of it, thats my digital finger print, Its actually a pretty good idea!

6. Enforce www. Preference
Does what its name implies, if someone goes to eruanna.net the url is changed to www.eruanna.net, I wanted some consistancy.

7. FeedSmith
Directs people to your feedburner feed not your wordpress /~rss one. So you can concentrate all your readers in one!

8. FlickrRSS
Everyone knows about this plugin, it shows your recent flickr photos on your website.

9. Full Text Feed
In wordpress 2.1 it automatically places a read more link after the first few lines in your feed, this gets rid of that nasty habit.

10. Sig2Feed
Allows you to add your signature to the bottom of your feed, or anything you want for that matter, images, links and text.

11. Sideblog
I’ve had a few people email me about this one so here it is. It shows a list of ‘mini updates’ in the sidebar instead of getting random @soandso comments from twitter! Its all managed from the wordpress admin.

12. Simple Tags
Adds technorati tags to the ends of your posts, if you remember to add them though!

13. Related Entries
Shows a list of entried related to the one your viewing.

14. Wordpress Mobile Edition
I used to use this and I only just rediscovered it, it makes your site viewable on PDA’s and Smart Phones, it works, I’ve tested it!

15. WP-Grins
Lets you have clickable smilies in both the wordpress admin panel and the comments form. Especially useful if you’ve used my tutorial on Changing the Default WordPress Smilies.

16. WP Database Backup
Great for the paranoid like me! Emails a back up of your SQL database to you.

17. WP-Cache
Caches your site – particularly useful if your being dugg – apparently its helped but I’ve never been dugg so I wouldn’t know!

I went up to london on Friday to see Joseph. They’ve recently done a reality show on BBC1 to find the lead character for this musical. I didn’t watch it – I hate reality tv, but my mum did – so I got dragged into London see it.

I’ve seen Joseph before a few years ago. This was very different, I still prefer the original although this one was funnier. It could be because I get more of the jokes now though, especially the dirtier ones!

I can’t say I appreciated the singing Camel and Snake though – that was just disturbing! Either way, On the train back home I started thinking. Who else here is a blogger? I was sitting next to a guy who just oozed geek, he had a prosh blackberry for one. He just looked the part of the IT professional with one of those ‘money making blogs’ that tell you the obvious. (You don’t have to be an IT professional to be a blogger mind.)

Come on – whose the blogger here?! (bonus points if you can spot me!)

I just couldnt help but think it – you never know who around you is a blogger nowadays. If you passed me in the street would you think I was one?! Would you rush up to me and go ‘omg your Han from eruanna.net I love your blog!’

Its something to think about – because if you trip up the stairs as I frequently do there could be a whole swarm of blog posts about ‘that stupid girl’ buzzing around technorati!

Remember I talked about wanting a zune well the winner of the zune contest Enkay is having a contest – its not for a zune though but a snazzy little mp3 player thingymajig with video playback – I had an urge to watch Top Gear in the garden the other day but I couldn’t because I only have a vintage ipod! *hmph*