If…

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!

-Rudyard Kipling

Downtown Chicago

We went downtown yesterday. That is always fun. We walked around and then went to the Field Museum for a few hours and saw the Darwin exhibit. After that, we went and had more good Chicago pizza … and a little beer too, of course.

Here are some pics from downtown taken from my new cell phone:

Show Top Commentators (WordPress Plugin)

The Show Top Commentators WordPress plugin is another simple thing you should add to your blog and another plugin that I found out about from JohnChow.com.

The purpose is to encourage people to comment more on your posts by giving them more public recognition for their efforts to contribute to your blog. I recently added it to my sidebar and I have had it on StockWeblog for a while now. It’s easy to set up and has a lot of different options.

You can download it and find out more about it here.

Real Chicago Pizza

I’m in Chicago for the rest of the week. First thing we did when we got into town yesterday was go to Ledo’s in Brookfield for some cheese and sausage pizza. The lighting was really bad, and it was a cell phone camera, but this was what real pizza looks like lol…

Web Crash 2007

All is lost…