Two Useful Plugins
A couple of WordPress plugins I've found very useful recently:
The Flickr Album plugin creates a very attractive page displaying photos from a Flickr account, but I actually think its additional feature of adding photos to the Write page for easy insertion into posts is more impressive. It offers you the full range of Flickr's resized images, too. I'm forever swapping between Flickr's photo pages and blog entries, copying and pasting the relevant HTML, and this saves a fair bit of time.
Also, Edit n Place allows editing of posts directly from the blog, skipping the admin interface. It actually works without making a horrible mess, unlike similar plugins I've used before. It interrupts the layout slightly for logged-in administrators, but this can be tweaked by editing the plugin directly (you may also take this opportunity to replace 'n' with 'in', if you're anal like me 
). The only problem I've found is that the hidden-to-non-administrators-link seems to be added to trackbacks, but for me its usefulness outweighs that issue. It's rare that nothing needs fixing / changing after I've hit 'Publish'.
del.icio.us linkrolls
del.icio.us has many cool features, but they're so well hidden in the bowels of the site that I often don't discover them until months after everybody else. For any bloggers out there who don't know about the del.icio.us linkrolls, I feel I should point them out. To generate the links on the right-hand side (front page only) I previously used a wordpress plugin that checked my 'wongablog' tag every half hour, generated some html and cached the output. Now del.icio.us have some clever javascript that does the same thing, but on a real-time basis. Swish. I hear that there's also some kind of flash-based media player that can be used to insert mp3s etc. into post content - must check that out at some point.
Update: and as soon as I post, it promptly stops working...
Update 2: Nope, that was my fault
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Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often meander around humanism and photography, but they're flighty and you can't trust them, so anything is possible.
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- vicky: going up this weekend having done all the welsh peaks except 4 snowdon, cant wait
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: what, how can u live in the 21 c and say that, probably a sexist thing
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: da iawn laura, cant believe what im hearing, all this fuss, anyway love the site, and i agree, normal people who swear and curse clomb mountains cos we live in the...
on Climbing Snowdon. - Andrew: Did a few quick test shots to check the light levels, then balanced the camera on the arm of a bench, set it for a 20s exposure and hoped for the best
on ISS. - lynsey: Wow, how did you take that photograph?
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