I’ve done some improvements in this blog. First of all I updated Wordpress an all the plugins I use.
I’ve also installed Lightbox 2.0 for WordPress plugin which pop ups images in posts in a AJAX pop-up. No more open image in new window here (at least if you are not reading this from my RSS feed :-P)
Now you can rate my posts with stars, because I installed the Post Ratings plugin. This plugin has a lot of options and statistics. It is pretty nice. Another plugin from the same author is WP-PageNavi which I used to improve the navigation in my posts history. You can see it in the bottom of my homepage.
I added support for Gravatar in comments! Gravatar is a service where you associate an e-mail with a picture that represents you (an avatar). If a website has support for Gravatars, like mine, when you submit some article or comment and provide your e-mail, the Gravatar associated with that e-mail will be shown right next to your submitted content. With Gravatar, you leave your mark wherever you write, over the Internet (in websites that support it). Information about adding support to Gravatar can be found in the website.
An alternative to Gravatar is Pavatar. With Pavatar, you host your avatar in your own website. When you provide your website URL in comments or articles submition, the Pavatar enabled website fetches your avatar, and displays it. Same kind of stuff as Gravatar, but this time in a distributed architecture.
Now I am officially a Twitter user. 
What is Twitter?
“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?“
Basically, you send information about what you are doing through the website, instant messaging, SMS, or any Twitter client application, and then your followers (people that you approved) are informed. They can follow you through Twitter’s website, an client application, or by receiving free text messages in their mobile phones.
I’ve installed Twitter Tools for Wordpress. In the widget bar of my website, you have my most recent Twitter entries.
A bunch of geek stuff. Usefulness? Well… At least now my website is a little more “social network-oriented” 
I don’t like the image viewer much, it blocks everything else. I prefer Highslide (http://vikjavev.no/highslide/), you can watch how it works on http://www.officesnapshots.com/2008/02/07/npr-offices/
Very nice! I’ve even found an Wordpress plugin.
WP-Highslide
It has one inconvenient when compared to lightbox. You have do insert specific markup in your posts around images.
With lightbox, the plugin finds images wrapped in links to other images and do the needed replacements (which is adding a rel atribute). This means that tough I installed the plugin yesterday, all posts in this blog are using lightbox on-the-fly.
But I will definitely remember your tip in future projects.
You shoudn’t use Gravatar no pAvatar, but hAvatar instead! And add microformats to your blog so it works
I’ll take a look at microformats later today.
Already bookmarked
Thanks!
Great! Now I support hAvatar, and have my own hCard
Wordpress hCard creator plugin
hAvatar plugin
And hAvatar supports Gravatar too
hAvatar slowed the page loading…
It was fetching the hCard while loading the page.
I’ve wrote my own version, which uses an PHP file as a src in the avatar images. This ways even if the images take a while to load, the rest of the page is already loaded
The support for gravatar was not what I expected.
I’m adding real support to create a merge of hAvatar, Gravatar and Pavatar.
I’ll publish it later today.
Someone from the DiSo list already talked about a plugin handling multiple avatar sources called AllAvatars: http://singpolyma.net/plugins/allavatars/
You might want to check that out before you duplicate your effort.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a try