Blogging at the speed of life

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Design adapted from the Blue Box theme

Photographic header of the Manchester skyline used by kind permission of Neil Hill

This blog was brought to you by Wordpress and these fine plugins:

  • AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down) v1.2

    Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services. By AddThis.com.

  • Akismet v2.1.6

    Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.

  • All in One SEO Pack v1.4.6.13

    Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By Michael Torbert.

  • Better Blogroll v2.23

    Pulls a configurable number of links and their categories from the WordPress 2.3 Link Manager and allows you to offer an explanation for your tiny little blogroll. By Jon Dyer.

  • Clicky Web Analytics v0.3b

    Integrate Clicky Web Analytics into your WordPress blog without the need to edit any templates. Includes support for automatically tagging your blog visitors by name, and the ability to ignore visits from blog administrators. Enable the plugin and click here to manage its options. By Sean Hammons, Douglas Karr.

  • DJ EmailPublish v1.5

    Publish your article to other blog by email. Visit Options/Email Publish after activation of the plugin. By Der-Johng Sun.

  • Extended Comment Options v2.0

    This plugin allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts. By Mark Kenny.

  • Get Recent Comments v2.0.2

    Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin. By Krischan Jodies.

  • Google XML Sitemaps v3.1.0.1

    This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold.

  • lbcd78 Plugins View v0.3

    lpv Add in a page or post plugin’s list activated on your blog. Just put this code : By lbcd78.

  • MyBlogLog Widget v2.0

    Adds MyBlogLog widget to your blog. By MyBlogLog Team.

  • One Click Plugin Updater v2.4.3

    Upgrade plugins with a single click, install new plugins or themes from an URL or by uploading a file, see which plugins have update notifications enabled, control how often WordPress checks for updates, and more. By Janis Elsts.

  • Single Bookmark Category List v2.0

    List bookmarks from one bookmark category for WordPress 2.3+. Licensed under GPL v2. By Azmeen (HTNet).

  • SRG Clean Archives v4.2

    This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean, uniform, single-query fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar. By Sean R..

  • Subscribe To Comments v2.1.2

    Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith.

  • Twitter widget v1.5

    Sidebar widget to display your Twitter timeline. The widget allows you to choose to display your twitter username in front of your updates. You can also choose whether to display the time before or after the twitter post. By Sarah Isaacson.

  • Woopra v1.1

    Woopra plugin for Wordpress By Woopra.

  • WP-OpenID v2.2.2

    Allows the use of OpenID for account registration, authentication, and commenting. By Alan Castonguay. By Will Norris.