TAG | christmas
We’re back home and in the swing of things after a nice visit with my family down in Dallas. Its always hard to come back home after visiting them … both because its much warmer down there and because we get to see them so rarely. I realized there were a few photos in my phone that I hadn’t uploaded yet, so here they are.
A winter tradition for Johna and I has been to visit the 8th floor auditorium display at Dayton’s… eh… Marshal Fields… hmm, no… Macy’s. Yeah, that’s it.
This year was the first year we brought Kyler down to see it (yeah, we skipped last year – its an on/off tradition, really). While I did a great job of forgetting the camera that was layed out on the counter beside the car keys, wallet and phone I grabbed, thankfully the iPhone has a camera on it. And when I reduced the pictures to fit on this web page, eh, they don’t look all that bad.
Kyler had a BLAST checking everything out. Infact, we had to walk through twice and spent a LOT of time each time we walked through studying every little detail. To say it was a hit is quite the understatement.
One of the things I love about the new WordPress tool (which is the software that runs the blog on this site) are the new built-in tags. Tags are all the rage with IT people these days because they’re designed to help you categorize information with short words or phrases that help describe the content you’re looking at.
For example, if I were to tag the photo below, I’d enter the follow words into the “tag” field: rob, jim, ladder, christmas, funny, accident waiting to happen
Yeah, I know. Don’t ask. — We have a standing joke in our family that whenever a ladder comes out, someone’s going to get hurt. Moving on.
In the WordPress blog software, you can display a tag cloud for visitors to see. The tag cloud shows all the tags that are used to describe your blog posts and assigns each word or phrase a relative font size. The idea is that in an instant someone can get a sense of which tags are used most frequently.
I went back to all posts I entered this year and updated them to have tags. I expected them to by “Kyler” intensive, and they were, but the mix wasn’t quite as unbalanced as I thought. See for yourself:
Looks like Johna needs to blog more and get into more photos! Also, I’m surprised “Disney” isn’t as big as “Kyler” in the tag cloud. I’ll have to work on that, too.
