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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.

Kyler LOVED his valentine’s day cards this year. They were all brightly colored and some had adorable characters on them that he just wanted to eat… or, perhaps make out with. You decide.

He also loves getting “kisses” from his new frog. The frog blows air on him when we squeeze it and he loves hearing us say that the frog will give him “kisses” as he feels a quick blast of air on his face.

One of my all-time favorite movies is “Back to the Future.” There’s a scene in the movie where Marty goes back in time and visits his mom’s house and sees his uncle Joey playing in a kids play-pen. He leans down and says “better get used to these bars, kid” knowing that his uncle would later end up in prison (which we learn at the start of the movie when his “present” mom plops down a cake and says “well, kids, your uncle Joey didn’t make parole again…”).

I couldn’t help but think of that scene when I saw this in the toy store the other day:

It is on sale, if you’re interested.