Douglas Adams created a book called the Meaning of Liff. It’s a compilation of English Placenames used to describe things that currently have no actual word attached to them. It’s a funny book, and it’s also a game I like to play on long road trips through the Australian Outback, to keep us amused, chortling, laughing, sometimes guffawing, and occasionally snickering.
I get up really early. 4am. Its my favourite time of the day. Perverse I know. It’s quiet apart from the occasional family snores, grunts, sneezes and snorts. Its a good time to get things done, unless Internet Explorer has exploded your WordPress.
I was doing my early rounds, checking my emails and replying to a HeatMap theme user who was having a few problems (in the end completely unrelated to Heatmap theme) when, during the search for the non-existent bug, I found a different bug altogether…
Today it is chocolate Friday, but, on this carnivorous day I declare I want to eat an extraordinary meat pie.
This, I decided, should be a pie to be savoured. It must definitely be award winning, preferably with 5 stars from a local festival of pie eating.
I really don’t want to throw just any old pastry entombed cow bits down my neck. These must be quality cow bits, prime juicy cow bits, in the most golden of perfect pastry crustiness…at least that’s what I hoped for…
One of the things I really really like about working from home on the internet is being able to go off and do something pretty much whenever I please.
I have known the land of cubicles though, including a long stint in an IT department. It seemed like it was fun at the time, but really, I was just making the best of a en-cubicled siutation, though I did eventually manage to score a corner cubicle with a 180 degree view of the city (more by luck than corporate management potential though).
Yes, my little team and I were happy-ish little vegimites, grabbing whatever morsels of fun were to be had, building a little world of our own within a big grown up corporate-ish world. The trouble is, it sucks you in, lures you into thinking that you are comfortable, safe, cosseted and well looked after. Therein lurks danger for any freedom loving creative spirit.
I have to confess something. I have an obsessive compulsive checking problem. I have to check everything. Especially locks. I like them to be locked. All of them. It’s quite annoying. Disaster usually occurs if I don’t check things (especially blog posts). For some reason typos seem to bypass my checking filter. No matter how much I look I don’t always seem to see. I believe it has something to do with seeing what I expect to see rather than what’s really there. Imagination is a wonderful thing.
Fortunately when it comes to HeatMap Theme, this checking compulsion does seem to be working though, and working rather well. The quality control department in my brain is giving itself a pat on the back of the synapses. I do check new HeatMap Theme stuff on a least three different blogs before I release it to you, dear HeatMapster (yes I now have invented a new word for HeatMap Theme users). 
Read more dear HeatMapster…
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Ok, so I'm a chocoholic! Just give me my double choc extra creamy bar of fun now!