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Just don’t serve me frozen carrots

There was a time when I would have never blinked an eye when eating a frozen carrot. That was the golden age of school dinners. Frozen carrots were standard fare there. We never thought about the frozen carrot then, probably because we were instead thinking of the dessert which followed, which always seems in my childhood minds eye to be a rich suet pastry jam roly poly with lashings of custard. Sometimes it was a less good dessert such as Frog Spawn (tapioca) or even Semolina with a dollop of jam, but mostly it was the sticky, oozy and sustaining suet puddings that I remember.
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So many Ideas – So Little of Me!

I’m an ideas person. Its what I do best. I have an endless supply of ideas, but I have a big problem. There is only one of me, and that me is tied up doing all the day to day things with the ideas I have already created and sent forth into the world.

What to do?

I now am faced with the prospect of sacking myself from some things. In fact its high time that I fired myself. Thats it, I quit! Well at least from certain aspects of things.

Enter Ankur Sharma. Brilliant Programmer. He has now sacked me from the HeatMap HQ programming department. From HeatMap V4.0.6 onwards Ankur is now official head-honcho of code poetry, and will be working with the Director of the ‘Brilliant Ideas Department’ (that would be me) to create more things you will love, things up until now which were stuck in my head.

Thanks Ankur, and welcome aboard!

Pick a Theme to Solve your Problem

There are literally squillions of WordPress Themes out there, of varying quality; some cost nothing, some you will pay for, but almost all the really good ones have one thing in common…

They solve a particular problem.

WordPress can be made to do an infinite number of things, but the real value of a theme is in how many of those possibilities can be elimininated so it helps its users solve their particular problem quickly, and focus on the task at hand.

For example, some themes help you to set up a magazine type blog; some themes might make it easy to set up a shop; and other themes might help you set up a blog that contains Adsense ads using WordPress widgets (ummm.. that would be HeatMap Theme). There are lots of possibilities.