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.

accident waiting to happen, christmas, funny, jim, ladder, rob

I’m a firm believer that the quality of your time off is measured by your ability to effectively keep yourself away from everything that’s going on back home. I’m a firm believer that your effectiveness in doing THAT is found in the amount of time you spend “catching up” when you get back home or back to work. (And if that doens’t make sense – you don’t have enough to do at your own office.)

Moving on…

Here are some more pictures from our recent trip to Dallas. I would have gotten these out sooner, but [insert excuse from the first paragraph here].

dallas, kevin, kyler, mickey, Pictures, rob, t

We simply don’t get to my parents house enough. The flight there is easy enough (just over 2 hours) but finding time off work to make the journey (and timing THAT with good air fares) is always tricky. We hadn’t visited them for nearly 6 months – which is WAY too long when you have your first child. So, before we left, we already picked out when we’d come back again so another 6 months didn’t go by.

I thought I’d share a few pictures from the trip (more to come).

dallas, katrina, kyler, Pictures, rob