In the Rough - The Blog of Joel McDonald Jr.

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.

This year’s theme is “Poverty”. Bloggers, podcasters, and videocasters around the world will be posting about this theme on October 15th. Last year’s theme was “The Environment“.

If you wish to participate, visit the Blog Action Day site and register your blog. The site provides additional suggestions for how you can aid in combating poverty around the world.

I’ve changed the name of my blog from “nxtOracle” to “In the Rough”. I’ve been mulling over making a name change for a while, but wasn’t coming up with any good ideas. “In the Rough” has a personal significance as it is connected with something said about me by someone who was and will always be extremely important to me, as well as being descriptive of the polishing the next few years might bring.

Stay tuned…this could get interesting.

So, I completed my first successful WordPress upgrade! I’m now running 2.5, which is a bit different from the previous versions. I am experiencing some issues with the image upload/insert features in IE7, but they seem to work fine in Firefox.

The Goose: We had a bit of fun and games with a crazed goose yesterday! PE students were tormented by this feathered creature who just wouldn’t be scared. I have to admit that it was pretty humorous to hear the teacher over the radio, “It’s attacking the parachute!”

Yeah, it’s a vanity search, but why not? Today I discovered that I’m #1 when searching “Joel McDonald” on Google. Pretty spiffy, eh?