Hi, my name is Leigh and I am a plurkoholic!

The interweb is a buzz with the newest microblogging/social network offering, Plurk. If you haven’t tried it out, you really should. For me, it has to be the best social tool to hit the net in years, it is fantastic!

I tried pownce when it first came out and it didn’t grab me. Gave twitter a go recently and didn’t feel too comfy there either.

So what exactly is plurk? For those familiar with social networks, it is a bit of a twitter clone, but there are also a lot of differences. It’s a super hybrid of IM, forums, chatrooms all rolled into something new and nifty. It can be a bit confusing once you start out, but you jump in and pick it up quickly.

The long weekend in Australia saw a huge influx of users and activities and a nice little community has been developing. Not really intentional, but the majority of the friends I have added on there are Aussies. But I am loving having a wide range of people with similar interests to interact with.

Being fairly new, and with the API only just recently released, there aren’t too many tools for Plurk. There is Top Plurk users, which ranks users (though it seems a little borked, with a few people missing) using location tags so you can see where you rank by karma. My karma with graph your karma. Plurkiverse and Plurkable is a good place for news and info. And there is also a Plurk Firefox sidebar addon. There is even a Plurk wallpaper for those suitable addicted.

What other Aussies are saying about Plurk..

• Riayn
• Andrew
• James
• Mr Gadget
• Kelley
• spotrick

So come on, you know you want to..come and give Plurk a try!

Edit to ad: Kelley has blogged yet again about the fun of plurk. I know nothing about what she is talking about..she was a bit pissed and confused I think LMAO

You are all using and loving Firefox already, right? ‘Cause if your not…what the hell are you thinking? Ditch that nasty Internet Explorer, you won’t regret it!

Today is the official release for Firefox 3. The folks at Mozilla are hoping to set a World record for having the most downloads of a piece of software in a 24 hour period.

Downloaded the new Firefox first thing this morning. I had resisted the urge to try out the beta and wait till today. I was a little nervous, I don’t like change, and was worried a lot of my addons would no longer work.

Been using it a few hours now, and I am really liking it. Lost one of my main addons, Colorzilla, but hopefully there will be something new to replace it soon.

There are tons of great new features in FF3, one of the main ones is the speed. You will noticed a big difference in the speed of your browsing once you upgrade.

So what are you waiting for..hop to it and download it now, join over 2million other users who have downloaded it already today!

Saw this at Micmum and just had to give it a go, thought it was a great idea for a meme!

Barbara and Trish have had a go too!

I may have cheated with one or 2, changing my answer because the pics were no good or I wasn’t allowed to use the ones I’d chosen. Bet you can’t guess what some of the answers are LOL!

The celebrity crush was hard, there isn’t really anyone I could think of. Left that one till last and kept thinking and thinking. So he may not really be a celeb, but was the best I could come up with.

So give it a go, it was lots of fun! Would love to see what everyone else comes up with.

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favourite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favourite colour?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favourite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favourite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your flickr name?

1. Leigh Park gardens, 2. Different Moods, 3. S̩rie com a Coruja-buraqueira (Speotyto cunicularia) РSeries with the Burrowing Owl 05-05-2008 200, 4. I can see you!, 5. sonny bill williams, 6. Day 1: Two hot chocolates, 7. Cute Tiger Moth Caterpillar, 8. Toast, assorted cupcakes, 9. She talks to angels, 10. Reminder to Self: Slow Down on the Caffeine, 11. xox, 12. 15/366

I was lucky enough to win Meg’s pay it forward competition last week. Yay me! I got 500 entercard credits (btw, have you joined up there? Why the hell not?)

So the rules for pay it forward, I get something..I have to give something away too. I have been racking my brain trying to come up with something. No luck there, so I will just ripoff some ideas off others..HA!

The rules are simple, leave a comment on this post ( let me know which prize you would like) By entering you have to be willing to run your own Pay it forward initiative on your blog if you are a weiner.

Have a couple of things on my lists.

1) You can have 500 entercard credits. Just so you know Meg, I am not regifting..that would be terrible! I will be sure they are a different 500 credits *hehe*

2) A 125×125 for a month banner ads on All for Women

3) Do you need a new blog, want to make the move from blogger to wordpress (and who wouldn’t) You will get a domain name all of your own, with wordpress installed and hosted for 6mths.

So they are the deals. Leave a comment, let me know which one you want. I will close and pick a weiner next Tuesday the 25th March.