Finally after using free hosts and free domains and waiting to get a nice domain name I got a domain that I liked. I have played around with WordPress previously when I had a free host and liked it, sites are kinda boring and forums require a community a blog is my own expression and this is what this site is about - Just Being Manan!
After setting up WordPress selecting a really cool theme I installed a few Plugins, I got to say editing it to make it cross-browser compatible was a pain, I still haven’t got it work properly on Safari - you use Safari 
Ok sorry, the Plugins, yes, the ones I have installed so far:
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Embedded Video Link - A Plugin to integrate various video links as videos in your blog posts. It supports almost all video portals and most commonly video formats. (Download)
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Fotobook - Merges your Facebook albums in your blog, adds a ‘Photos’ link to your navigation bar and pulls images from your Facebook account. It’s pretty customizable you can choose the albums to show or hide. (Download)
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Homepage Excerpts - Shows a user-defined excerpt of posts on the home page or a defined no. of full posts on the Home Page, makes the home page look neat IMHO. I have set it to show first 100 words of each post. (Download)
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Redirectify - Adds external links to your navigation bar, really helpful. (Download)
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Twitter Updater - If you don’t know Twitter - I won’t blame you, none the less Twitter is an update service that will send users (who have setup a twitter account in their IMs) a message whenever you update your status on the Twitter site, this service is very helpful for bloggers and blog readers. Readers can simply follow you - a blogger’s updates and so whenever you - the blogger publishes a new post the people who follow your updates will get a IM on their chat client with the title and a link to the new article.
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uBerdose (All in SEO Pack) - Search Engine Optimization Pack, I have not fiddled with it so cant say much about it, but if it does what it is supposed to then it rocks. (Download) Thank You Ravi for this one.
Edit: Plugins suggested by sathya added :p
7. Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator: Generates A Sitemap in XML format that helps Bots & Search Engine in crawling your site. (Download)
8. WP-Stats - Generates statistics of your blog. (Download)
Thank You Sathya 
April 14th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Some more must have plugins - Yahoo Smiley pack, Google XML sitemap generator, WP-Stats.
PS: I’m on twitter: sathyabhat is my id
April 14th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hey Sathya nice to see
and thanks for the plugins I was searching for a XML sitemap generator, first post edited 
April 15th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Pleasure
PS: Subscribe to comments plugin is also a must have!
April 15th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I did put but forgot activating it :D, thanks for reminding, i also added the comments rss link in the footer.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Well, nice but after reviewing the plugins u r using, I found that u are not using wp-cache. Use that plugin, it will save ur site’s bandwidth and will enable frequent visitors to browse ur blog much faster.
And I also came to know that u are using multiple sitemap-gen plugin. dd-sitemap-gen & google-sitemap gen. I’d recommenced u to use only google sitemap gen. multiple will lead into some conflicts.
btw, here is the list of plugins u are using :p
FeedBurner_FeedSmith
adsense-manager
akismet
all-in-one-seo-pack
dd-sitemap-gen
embedded-video
fd-footnotes
fotobook
google-sitemap-gener
hello.php
homepage_excerpts.php
instantupgrade
live-comment-preview
redirectify.php
share-this
stats
subscribe-to-comments
twitter_updater
April 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I was going to make a part 2 of this post and was waiting for some more info about various plugins :p
for the multiple generators, I did not know that using multiple generators has side-effects, I like dd’s method of displaying the sitemap as a link at the top and google is well for google.
How did you know I am using footnotes, I have not yet even used it
April 27th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
hmm.. well if u use dd sitemap gen for just to display the list… its ok! But I thought u r submitting the sitemap to google and other SE from both the plugins..
and here:
http://www.beingmanan.com/wp/wp-content/plugins
in the same way, u can see the plugins people r using on their wp blog by suffixing /wp-content/plugins to the URL. Try: http://www.themebin.com/wp-content/plugins
April 27th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
hmmm … interesting, thanks for the heads up.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:32 am
nice collection. there are some i just realized i need…like homepage excerpts.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Hi Brian, thank you and yeah home page excerpts is 1 of my favorite