What I removed:

• BlueTooth: Useful, but not on a day-to-day basis.
• Time Machine: This system isn’t backed up. What? No, really. Everything important on it is either in MobileMe or Subversion. All my other systems use Time Machine.
• MobileMe Sync: Knowing when MobileMe is syncing isn’t really that useful.
• Keychain: Because I mostly use this to access Keychain Access, and I can just use Quicksilver.
• Fast User Switching: Because it’s usually just me using this computer.
• Quicksilver: Because it functions just as well without the menu.
• Volume: Because there’s keys on the keyboard.

What I’m keeping:

• smcFanControl: Because I want to run smcFanControl, but there’s no way to turn off the menu.
• ExpanDrive: Again, no way to turn off the option.
• iChat: Because I want to be able to quit iChat and stay online, and keeping it in the menu is requirement. But I never use the menu.
• WiFi: Because wireless connections take just long enough to establish for this indicator to be useful.
• Battery: Obvious.
• Spotlight: Because there’s no official way to remove it. If there were, I’d probably use Quicksilver to activate it, but as it is I use it a lot too.

What I may change:

• Add Script menu. Because it’s cool.
• Display temperature in smcFanControl. Very anti-zen, but useful information. I’d prefer if the temperature was in the menu somewhere after you clicked it, like Apple’s battery menu and the “battery remaining” time.