Thanks to the sites below for making my blog possible!

1. Andreas Viklund: Andreas Viklund is an excellent and generous blog theme designer. Everything is free but very good quality. The current theme I’m using is from there

2. Akismet: Akismet is a pretty intelligent (for a computer) spam filter that filters out spam comments. It seems to be pretty good at detecting what is spam. Out of all the time I have been using it, it has only made one choice different from what I would have made.

3. Adsense Deluxe: This is a pretty nifty tool that helps me display javascript in my posts. It was made for adsense but works for all javascript code.

4. Fuzz Recent Posts: I have my recent posts section of my sidebar thanks to this plugin. Users can conveniently look at the titles of my most recent posts and decide what to read.

5. Random Quotes: Again, since I’m a fan of randomness, this amuses me. Although not an essential, it randomly selects one of my favorite quotes from my database and displays it so I have some variety.

6. Challenge: This is another one of my spam prevention techniques. Challenge displays a basic arithmetic problem that the commenter must solve in order to leave a comment, similar to an image word verification. I apologize to those of you who dislike math, but I am using this plugin, because I’m simply getting too many spam comments.

7. Socialable: Last but not least, socialable automatically displays lots of links at the bottom of each of my posts, so viewers have the option of submitting my posts (or supporting them) to some news submission sites. This helps my flow of traffic.