One of the nice things I like about payday is that I can chip away at my list of desktop software and Wordpress plugin authors that I want to send a donation to as a way of saying thank you. This is different that software or plugin and services that I use across all my blogs, or in my daily computing life.

As it is I already subscribe to things like Clicky for my blog stats and have paid for a license for WordWeb Pro but that still leaves quite a number of plugins I want to show my appreciation for. Hell I’ve even donated to developer’s whose software I may end up never using but can still appreciate the work that has gone into them.

It is easy enough to try all kinds of software and plugins and ease our conscience about using them for long periods of time because they have been created by developers who are good enough to let us use them indefinitely for free.

That doesn’t change the fact that these hard working people deserve recognition for their hard work; and what better recognition that a few bucks to maybe buy something that will let them build an even