Blogger versus WordPress

I'm considering a switch to using WordPress for my blog instead of Google's Blogger. The main reason for this is to get all of my blogs stored in a database rather than in a bunch of flat HTML files. Also, I'd like to add the ability to use tags as a sort of indexing system.

If anyone has an opinion about WordPress I'd love to hear your comments.

New look and feel

I thought I would finally make an attempt to get my blog to look like my Web site. I know it could be more polished, but at least it looks like it kind of fits in. Let me know if you like or dislike the new format.

Can you believe the rain?

Yesterday on our way home from church, it started pouring so hard that the windshield wipers were on their highest setting, but even that wasn't enough! Today I found out that in Omaha on Saturday night, a tornado touched down right by Bryan and Danielle's house. When we were pulling into our driveway I said to Audrey that we should hurry inside, change our clothes, and then go play in the rain. So we did.



Here's a nice shot that shows the progress of our gardens. In the near garden, the obvious row is our first row of peas. This garden also has onions, carrots, lettuce, [non E-coli] spinach, and basil. The garden just behind me has tomatoes, more peas, summer sqaush, and cucumbers. The farthest garden in the corner of our yard is corn.



This picture shows the tomatoes really good. Jeana bought the tomatoes as plants, so we can't take a lot of credit for how big they are right now. We just need to build some attachments to help the squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes grow vertically.



I love being a dad!



Sometimes those of us who are bald forget how much protection and warmth comes from a head of hair!



My eyes, my eyes!



It is so much fun to finally have a yard to run and play in. Plus, having the rain really cooled down the temperatures this week and made it very enjoyable. The rain yesterday actually lasted for a while, but after three hours it was completely dry again. I went home teaching at 5pm and the people I visited (who live over by IBM) said that it only sprinkled by their house. I figured with the amount of rain we were getting that the whole state of Texas was going to be flooded.

SMART Goals

Anyone that has ever written a goal probably knows that it must be SMART. SMART is an acronym/mnemonic for writing goals to make sure that your goal is not some far-fetched dream that you'll never accomplish. The reason for writing a post about goals is that different people/organizations have different definitions for what a SMART goal is. Shouldn't there be some goal consortium somewhere which comes up with a standard of what a SMART goal is! Maybe OASIS or IEEE will pick this one up! :-)

I thought SMART was: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely.

Today I leared a new version: Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, and Timely.