I love plugins. especially if they make blogging easier! These are the plugins I use on this blog:

Add Meta Tags: Adds the Description and Keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front page and to each one of the posts, static pages and category archives.

Akismet: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Better Blogroll: 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.

Comment Luv: Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment.

Comment Relish: Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your weblog.

FeedBurner FeedSmith: Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

Feed Statistics: Compiles statistics about who is reading your blog via an RSS feed and what they’re reading.

Share This: Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.

Wordpress Database Backup: On-demand backup of your WordPress database.

WWW Redirect: Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent uri (i.e. http://abc.com to http://www.abc.com )