Here is a list of WordPress plugins and run and why.
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Being the cutting edge type. I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 almost the next day it was released. It was too easy. I have this site on Dreamhost 1 click install and upgrade.
I paid the price. My old theme (a slightly modified version of K2) broke the WordPress admin dashboard.
I should have tested it locally but I thought I'd be daring. Only today I found the time to test things locally and deploy a decent working theme. By the way the search was broken before, I hope no one noticed 
Here is what happend. K2 is a highly advanced theme with support for a lot of plugins and has its own sidebar manager. WordPess has its own sidebar manager. (Not as sleek as K2's)
When I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 my old theme (K2 Release Candidate 4) broke the WordPress dashboard. I looked around quickly and found that K2 had fixed this in the main development branch. So now I moved to the last nightly snapshot of K2. K2 RC5 will be compatible with WordPress 2.5. Waiting for that.
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I haven't had a visiting card since I left Virtusa around 2005. I needed one when I was freelancing but never got around to it.
I got this done in a hurry, which is why there is a typo and the alignment could be a bit better. I've put in only the essentials here. I'm happy with it for now, until the next version. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Looking at my stats I found the following.
- Hits go up from Monday to Wednesday. Then goes down towards the weekend.
- Weekdays visitors come first thing in the morning or after lunch around 2pm
- There are less hits in the weekend, but visitors stay longer and read more posts.
So most visitors drop by for a quick check on weekdays starting on Monday. They probably check on Kottu and just pop into a few posts they like and go back.
This means my current tendency for short regular posts during weekdays work well. Visitors don't have time to stick around for a long read anyway.
Its a good idea to write longer and in-depth content during the weekend.
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Here are a few links for the badges I use on the side pane. If you have some favorites please share them in the comments.
Google Talk Badge
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Tumblr was using my profile photo as the Favicon. Hey that's nice an idea. This is my blog so now my face is an icon on this blog too.
After a few days after loosing my skin I'm back with the usual design.
If you are using a variant of K2 you can use this plugin to disable the default widgets functionality.
I also pimped the flickr photo area with the 2 main flickr colors. I got inspired by Apramana's photo block and got some helpful hints from this post from Veerle.
This is what happens when you want to be in the bleeding edge of technology. I just upgraded to WordPress 2.2. Then realized there was a problem with the K2 theme I was using. At this time only the default theme is compatible to WordPress 2.2.
So I'm back to the default theme. This will have to do for a few days until I can port my old look back. I thought of not using K2 as my base this time. K2 has a lot of features built in, which is great but I want to start from a minimum and build up this time.
Also no more silly-sudden-updates, promise. 
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