Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 over the weekend, and its a dream.

• An intuitive and clean user interface,
• better organisation of menus,
• a dashboard that looks inviting
• One click upgrade for plugins
• Once click adding of media, including video

In addition to upgrading, i cleaned up my plugins - deleted all the stuff I don't use, added some new ones… here are some that I use:

• Akismet - the spam buster… It has caught well over 10k spam and counting. 
• All in One SEO Pack - If you want Search Engines to find your stuff…
• Angusman's Feed Copyrighter -
• Drop Down Archive Widget - When you have over 4 years of blogging archived, this is a good space saver
• Feedburner Feedsmith - helps you track your subscribers. I use it along with the Feedburner Widget that helps readers subscribe to the feed
• Share This -
• Simple Tags - allows you to create Technorati Tags
• Sphere Related Content - allows you to figure who else on the web puts out similar content or content on similar subjects
• StatPress - Real time stats for your blog. resides in your dashboard..
• WordPress Database Backup — if you are like me, you need this
• Related Posts -
• WYSI Wordpress -a sophisticated editor that is user friendly.

To all the people who wrote these plugins /widgets … thank you !