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Sundays, if you were not aware, are the days I set aside for “blog maintenance”. I don’t usually post on Sundays, but I did happen to notice a few photographs that I couldn’t resist today, so I went ahead and posted a few. At any rate, Sundays are the days when I typically run plugin updates, wordpress updates, and occasionally even go into the server configurations and make sure everything’s running smoothly. Besides my own four blogs, I also manage a few others, and the plugin updates alone would take too much time to do piecemeal. For those interested, the following are a list of the main plugins that I use on all the blogs I manage, and thus find incredibly helpful, in order of what I perceive to be their helpfulness:
- Cforms II (runs all contact and comment forms on all my blogs)
- NextGen Gallery (less so here than on my other blogs)
- Shutter Reloaded (less so here than on my other blogs)
- All in One SEO Pack
- Global Plugin Update Notice
- Google XML Sitemaps
- KB Robots.txt
- Simple Tags
Those are by no means all the plugins I use, but they’re in use on each of my blogs, and I think my blog-work would be far more difficult than it has to be without them. I will say this, however: I wish that some of the plugin developers would be a little more conscientious about update frequency. One of the plugins up there has been updated three times in seven days.
Now, on to more fun stuff. Sundays are also the days I set aside for checking out new things. Quite often on Sundays, I’ve got one computer tied up sending out print orders to my print lab, so I might as well do something useful and try to expand my horizons. Of course, the problem with an ever-increasing blogroll is the amount of time it takes to go through it each day, but I don’t mind, really. Doing what I do for a living, I quite often have one or more computers running a batch or upload process, so I might as well do something that’s relatively intellectually stimulating.
So, here are some new additions to my blogroll:
- Little Bang Theory ~ okay, this is actually not a new stop on my blogroll, but i had screwed up my RSS feed to his blog and fixed it a couple of days ago, and i’m thoroughly enjoying reading his posts
- The Nefarious Lair of LGPPP, Inc. ~ i really don’t know how i missed blogrolling Dr. Zaius’s
better halfrunning mate. - Blue Gal ~ i was honored to have received a link through her blog last night and immediately put Blue Gal on the blogroll. thank you, Blue Gal. you’re one of my favorite reads, and probably my biggest blogging inspiration.
- Yikes! ~ great posts and commentary. i love it when i “discover” something that’s been around far longer than my blogs!
- Bay of Fundie ~ i think Ron Britton may well be Bing McGhandi’s long-lost twin.
- One Pissed Off Veteran ~ i’ve subscribed to his feed since the last Blogswarm Against Theocracy. Dunno why
i hadn’t linked to him before now. maybe it’s because i’m actually quite stupid.
And that’s sadly all I could do today. With our house on the market, you never know when some realtor is going to call, and naturally, one just did! I’ll be SO happy when this crap is done with.
UPDATE: two more added. one has been in my google reader since google reader came out. however, since so many things are in my google reader, it all begins to blur sometimes. i actually just asked the guy which blog was his. gah. somebody please buy my damn house. i’m tired of being this scatter-brained.
- Neural Gourmet ~ excellent brain food, even for the brain-weary like me.
- Carnival of the Liberals ~ i will be hosting the June 4 edition. haven’t determined a theme yet.
