Plugin Name: Home page for WordPress
Plugin URI: http://rudd-o.com/projects/wp-homepage/
Description: Mark a WordPress page as the home page, and make it show as the first post on the front page
Author: Rudd-O
Author URI: http://rudd-o.com/

This plugin, once installed and activated, will let you mark a page (not a post) as a home page.  Once you've marked a page as the home page, it will show as the first post on your front page of your blog.

How to use:

- install and activate
-  on the page that you'd like to show on the front page of your blog, add a custom post field titled `homepage`, with a value of `1`.  That's it.

If you'd like to write the admin frontend for this, just write it, and send me the updated file.