I ran this site on Joomla for a while, and then I discovered Wordpress.  Wordpress is blogging software, but it can act as a content management system if you are creative with it. While Joomla is very powerful, it can be a bit difficult to use. Wordpress is very elegant in its simplicity, and it is a joy to use – a lot easier for a person to just jump right in and start building a site. So, I jumped platforms, and I’ve been running Wordpress for quite a while, now.

I’m getting to the point, though, where the versatility of Joomla is something I keep looking for, and Wordpress just can’t do what I want it to, while Joomla can. At least, not with my knowledge of tweaking Wordpress “under the hood”. Both systems are built on PHP, so if you are good with code, you can do pretty much anything with either of them. I’m not a code guy.

If I were to compare the two, here is my brief and uneducated synopsis:

Wordpress is very elegant and a joy to use. With the right template, it can easily act as a content management system and display your content in very creative ways, but you seem to be locked into the confines of your template if you aren’t good writing PHP and CSS code. If you’re running a blog or a simple site, using Wordpress is almost a no-brainer.

Joomla, on the other hand, is very powerful and flexible, allowing you to display your content in almost unlimited ways. If you are looking to build a bit more complex site and showcase different content in different ways inside of your site, Joomla is definitely worth a look.

I’m building a mirror of this site in Joomla right now – I think I might just make the switch. Again. You can view the Joomla site while it’s in development here.

“Deconstruction” by Justin McRoberts is one of my favorite songs ever. It’s on his album also named “Deconstruction”, which happens to be one of my favorite albums ever as well. You can check out Justin’s stuff here and follow him on twitter here.

I wrote this song a long time ago – back in 2003, actually. This is a song about struggling with sin and temptation – God promises us that He will provide for us in temptation – this song is a cry to God from within the struggle of sin.

I originally released this song on my “13 Miles” album.

Tutorial Videos

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or

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Chord Charts

A list of chord charts and downloads can be found here.

Actually, my inspiration for this came a few days ago at Target, when I was thinking about how much I like the the Bacon, Egg and Cheese Lean Pockets breakfast sandwiches, and I thought, “Well I can make these on my own and they will be WAY better”.

It’s true – this was WAY better.

Start with this:

Cook in here:

And then…

Oh yeah.  This was so much better than the Lean Pocket thing.  And actually way better for me.

So that is the story of my breakfast burrito.  And by the way, breakfast for dinner is awesome.

Chord charts: Capo // Open

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