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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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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.

Give up the day job, and get a life!

(subtitle: Musings on modern day cottage industry)

Its been a long time now since I’ve had to check into an office every day of the week to put bread and butter on the table. I know though that for many of you reading this, that the workaday routine is the daily reality. Get up, go to the office, return home, go to bed…repeat until insanity, retirment or check-out-of-hotel-de-vivre ensues.

Of course, I am extremely grateful that every day some (most) people choose the 9 to 5 life, and that there are still others who actively enjoy it, thrive in it, need it, want it, aspire to it, and don’t seem to go insane at all. I salute all those of you who keep the wheels of industry turning and operating within normal parameters.

Want to give up the day job? Of course you do. Read on!