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The Pretty Scary Update!

+ Added a beacon
+ Added flower pots
+ Added item frames
+ Added anvils
+ Added cobblestone walls
+ Added pumpkin pies
+ Added carrots and potatoes
+ Carrots can be put on a stick to control pigs while riding
+ Added a boss mob
+ Added a new skeleton type
+ Added witches
+ Added bats
+ Added mob heads that can be placed
+ Zombies now infect villagers, but can also be cured
+ Added wooden button
+ Items can be cloned with the “pick block” action in Creative Mode
+ Items can be quickly moved to the hotbar by pressing 1 through 9 while hovering an item
+ Added /difficulty, /spawnpoint, /weather, /gamerule and /clear commands
+ Added “target selectors” for commands
+ Added option to hide capes
+ Added option to toggle vertical synch
+ Added customization to superflat worlds
+ Minor additions to the world generator
+ New potion recipes
+ Leather armor can be dyed
* Maps now start more zoomed in, and can be extended
* Redstone repeaters can now be set into a “locked” position
* New sound effects
* Portals to the Nether can now transport items and mobs
* Adventure mode now allows placing and removing blocks, but only when using the correct tools
* Changed method of placing sideways wood logs
* Improved server list
* Improved debug (F3) options
* Spawn protection is now automatically disabled if there are no defined admins
- Removed Herobrine

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About This Game

It has been ten years since the Raccoon City incident and the President of the United States has decided to reveal the truth behind what took place in the belief that it will curb the current resurgence in bioterrorist activity.

Due to be by the President's side is his personal friend and Raccoon City survivor, Leon S.
Kennedy, but when the venue suffers a bioterrorist attack, Leon is forced to face a President transformed beyond recognition and make his hardest ever decision. At the same time, Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance member Chris Redfield arrives in China, itself under threat of a bioterrorist attack. With no country safe from these attacks and the ensuing outbreaks, the entire world's population is united by a common fear that there is no hope left.

LEON & HELENA

LEON AND HELENA'S CAMPAIGN STARTS AT THE IVY UNIVERSITY WHERE THINGS GO WRONG AFTER AN INCIDENT WITH THE PRESIDENT.
CHRIS & PIERS

PIERS BRINGS CHRIS BACK TO THE BSAA TO TACKLE THE C-VIRUS HEAD ON. PLAY ALL OVER THE WORLD IN RESIDENT EVIL 6 TO UNCOVER THE GLOBAL SIGINIFICANCE OF THE VIRUS.
JAKE & SHERRY

JAKE, WESKER'S SON IS JOINED BY THE INFAMOUS SHERRY BIRKIN AS THEY CONFRONT J'AVO, WHILE BEING PERSUED BY A FORMIDDABLE NEW B.O.W. - THE USTANAK
ADA WONG

ADA WONG IS BACK IN RESIDENT EVIL 6! COMPLETE ALL 3 OF THE CORE CAMPAIGNS AND UNLOCK HER SINGLE PLAYER STORY, PLAYING THROUGH AND CROSSING OVER WITH THE OTHERS IN A SOLO ENVIRONMENT.

Resident Evil 6 promises yet another dramatic, frightening experience blending action and survival horror. In a first for the franchise, RE 6 sees series favorites Leon and Chris come together to face this unprecedented threat. They are joined by new characters, each with their own unique perspective and involvement, in this relentless outbreak enacted on a global scale.

Resident Evil 6 october 2012 (Biohazard 6) Description: Resident Evil 6 is also known as Biohazard 6 in japan and released in October 2012 for Playstation3 Xbox360. This is Eight installment by Capcom production both developer and publisher of Resident Evil 6 for the PlayStation 3,Microsoft Windows and Xbox360.

Published & Developed: Capcom Released: October 2012 for Plastation 3 and xbox360 (TBA for Microsoft Windows) Platforms: PlayStation 3,Microsoft Windows and Xbox360 Genre: First Person and Third Person Shooter Mode: Single Player, Multiplayer Media: Optical disc all , DVD-ROM

Supported Functions

Number Of Players: 1-4
Local - Co-Op # of Players
Online - Co-Op Number Of Players: 4

Features

Horror on a global scale – No longer confined to a specific location, the outbreak of the C-virus is worldwide with the action taking place in North America, Eastern Europe and China.
Multiple characters and intertwined storylines – Experience the horror playing as Leon S. Kennedy, Chris Redfield, and Jake Muller with their respective partners. And don't be surprised to see (and play as) the mysterious Ada Wong somewhere in the midst of mayhem.
Solo or co-op – Resident Evil 6 delivers both single and co-op gameplay either offline or online
A new challenge – Confront the results of the C-virus in all its varied and deadly forms.
Mercenaries returns - Players will once more be able to enjoy the highly popular Mercenaries Mode
Redesigned control system – Resident Evil 6 features an evolved control system allowing players to shoot while moving; slide; roll in any direction and to take cover, along with the addition of an enhanced melee attack.
Localized voice over – Resident Evil 6 includes fully localized voice over in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian as well as subtitles in Japanese, Russian, Polish, Brazilian and Portuguese.

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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.

You can spot a frozen sliced carrot on a plate even before you’ve tasted it, and when you do pop it in your mouth, its a bit bland and watery. A fresh carrot nicely prepared tastes much better. No question. Any self respecting chef or cook would not serve up a frozen carrot, or a frozen anything for that matter (unless its a dessert.)

It does take a bit of energy to chop up a carrot though (or ‘prep it’ as I’m sure they would say in cheffy circles), and the temptation to cut corners in cheaper establishments must be overwhelming. I’m sure though that chefs and cooks in most big towns though would have access to pre-chopped fresh fare, thus saving them the time and energy. Its probably a tad more expensive too, but I’d suggest to all restaurateurs, cafe food and pub-grub purveyors its not as expensive as having customers not return because you presented a frozen carrot on a plate to a patron.

These days it seems we are completely surrounded in the media by cooking shows and celebrity chefs. The palettes of the population are being educated via TV. We all know how food should be prepared, presented and how it should taste (even though we can’t actually taste the food that is being paraded before us on the telly box). Subconsciously many of us have become foodies and part-time restaurant critics. It must be a real pain in the *wotsit* for restaurant owners. No longer can chefs and cooks get away with sub-standard carrots.

As you might have guessed by this anti-frozen-carrot rant that I was recently disappointed because someone served me a frozen carrot in a place that was not a school canteen. The pudding that they served following the carrots did not redeem their carrots either. It was a limp apple pie that did not have enough lashings of custard. Shame.

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More Blogging Please!

One day you are happily blogging away and then suddenly it hits you…an idea…the big idea… and it goes something like this…

“Hey I cant find a WordPress theme that does just what I want…you know what.. I think I’ll design my own!”

and then after you’ve finished creating your theme you get the second brilliant idea… and it goes something like this…

“Wow my WordPress theme is pretty cool now, and seeing as everyone is asking to get their hands on it, I’ll release it to the world!”

For many WordPress Theme designers this is the kiss of death for their actual blogging. The writing gets put on hold while theme designing grows into a magnificent obsession. I have not been immune to this. Alas and alack, I too have been caught up in the cloistered codexed world of theme-ing and diminished my word output!

No more I say… time to start blogging again. So having given my blog a freshen up with my latest Heatmap Child Theme we’re off again into the realm where only words can take us… until at least the time comes when I get obsessed with the next theme update again.

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The Art of Extreme Gardening

Occasionally when the mood takes me I can be seen dashing around our garden at high speed, dragging palm fronds from here to there, chopping, hacking, occasionally pulling and generally tidying up what nature seeks to untidy at a pace that is distinctly un-gardening-like. The neighbours must think I’m slightly potty.

Gardening seems to be regarded as a gentile occupation, mainly for people who like to wear woolly jumpers when its a bit nippy outside, and retired people with far too much time on their hands. I seek to redress this image… at least around my own garden anyway.

Here’s my thinking… I see people jogging on the street, cycling in chattering packs, working out in the gym, and yoga-ing until their yin fully is yanged. I don’t have time for all that. I have to combine my exercise regime with the practicalities of directing all that energy into something useful (in addition to all that healthy mind, healthy body stuff)

So Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce to you the Art (and Sport of) EXTREME GARDENING.

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Pop Stars I Have Met

Have you ever met any real pop stars? You know, the ones that you thought were the absolute bees-knees of pop perfection during your peak music consumption teeny-twenty-something years?

As a youth, pop music ranked alongside soccer as something you must be into. I never liked soccer that much though as I only ever seemed to reach the position of ‘substitute’ on the infant school team. I never scored any goals and I was better at fouling other players by kicking them than actually kicking the ball. I never kicked any pop stars though.

No, I loved pop music, and even wanted to be a Pop Star, but never seemed to find the time to do anything about it, though I did write many songs and developed a musical style reminiscent of a monotone Pet Shop Boys, complete with 80′s st-st-st-st-stuttering ssss—ssss—samples. (n-n-n-nineteen anyone?).

I’m glad I’m not one. I’ve read many pop star autobiographies and while the bit which involves going on stage and playing a gig in front of 100,000 screaming fans seems fun, the road to the top and back down again seems altogether too smelly, unsavoury and filled with people who would induce anyone to become paranoid (with or without the seemingly obligatory hard drugs). So, when it comes to the pop world the nearest I have got is standing or sitting next to some now reasonably famous people.

Vince Clarke
I once stood alone at the Uni Bar next to Vince Clarke of Yazoo, Depeche Mode, and Erasure fame. I wish I had said hello. I was a shy youth.

Stephen Duffy
I met Stephen Duffy twice (of 80′s Tin Tin and now Robbie Williams co-song writer fame). He signed my record and I snuck backstage after the gig for photos. For a long time my photo was on his website. My fashion sense of the time though was sorely lacking and shall for ever more be etched in internet history. I also interviewed him once for the ‘Friends of the Lilac Time’, but I was too worldly naive to impress him with my interview technique and he disappointed me by being just an ordinary person with an extraordinary ego. I can’t blame him for that. Artists never match up to perfection of their artistic creations. The interview never saw the light of day.

Mark from ‘Take That’
I sat next to Mark from Take That once outside a solo promotional gig, after Take That had split. He was busy fuelling an unhealthy habit. I always wonder how people who live unhealthy lifestyle can even make it out of bed on a morning, never mind expend massive energy on stage. I guess that’s why the unhealthy habits start in the first place.

The (EX) Prime Minister of Australia
So that’s about it for Pop stars I have met… Apart from one. Even though he’s not a pop star, in the Australian media his persona sometimes takes on the aura of one. I gave Kevin Rudd a hug (now of ‘I am the (now EX) Prime-Minister-of-Australia’ fame) when he popped into our church. Its a very huggy church, and no-one was hugging him, so I went over and made him feel welcome. He was mildly surprised. I forgot his name and said “welcome to the church PHIL” (temporily confusing Kevin Rudd with Phillip Ruddock). Later that year he became Prime Minister (Kevin, not Phil). I don’t think the two events are related but you never know; a butterfly flaps its wings here and an earthquake is triggered on the opposite side of the world.

Update! Poor old Kevin is now no longer the Prime Minister. He has been usurped by the Ginger Ninja Julia Gillard. I don’t expect to be giving her a hug any time soon. I promise though that if I ever meet her I will endeavour to get her name wrong too.

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Bananas In The Back Garden

There are bananas in the back garden of our home. It’s true. Right there on the banana trees. There are lots of them.

When I was a kid, bananas came slightly blackened and over-ripe. We squished them up and put them in sandwiches. I liked banana sandwiches a lot. I ate a lot of them. My bones are probably built from one third banana sandwiches, one third milk, with the rest being made up of liver, onions and mashed potato.

When I first saw bananas ‘in the wild’ I could not believe they were actually real bananas. I guess its the same kind of disconnection that some people feel between a cow and a steak. I’d never seen a banana tree before. Now there are lots of banana trees in the garden. I had to move countries for this to happen though. There are also paw-paws (came in cans as a mysterious ingredient in fruit salad when I was a child), pumpkins (only seen in American Halloween trick or treat references on imported movies), lychees (they grow in chinese restaurants don’t they?) and Custard Apples (a freak of nature never seen in my native UK). There are also lemons, limes, oranges and mandarins (only ever seen in a christmas stocking previously).

Its a race to eat them. You see, where I live the animals also have an eye on the garden. To me, its a wonderful compendium of exotic fruits for my delectation. To them its just lunch, breakfast and tea, and they seem to have a knack of grabbing things off the tree the instant they become in any way edible, or, more annoyingly just nibbling a little bit of the end, so that you don’t really want to eat it yourself.

There are bananas sat in front of me as I type this, lined up in a row, ripening on the front deck. About 10 bunches. My wife makes great banana cakes with them. You see the problem is they all get ripe at once, and eating 100 banana within the space of 4 days is not really possible for me, much as I like them, and much as the novelty of chopping them out of the tree with a machete never wears off.

My wife tells me that we have Monsterio tree somewhere in the garden. I’ve never got the hang of those. Maybe its the name. Who would want to eat a monster fruit?

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A Cure-all for your Google SEO Obsession?

(subtitle: Don’t work so hard – its supposed to be fun!)

Are you a Google SEO obsessive?

Are you a new blogger who worries about the micro aspects of SEO, installing all manner of SEO plugins even before even writing any content?

Do you spend lots of time keywording, optimising, spinning and split testing micro paragraphs to within an inch of their meaning to stay in line with the latest theories about Google’s secret search sauce?

Do you constantly ask yourself questions like “Do I hyphenate here?”, “Will a full stop affect my SEO?”, “Have I ordered my keywords so that they balance their atomic weight with the latest quantum-physics-vistor-report-matrix?”

Have you got the bug?
If any of the above ring true for you then you may have a medical condition which I call pagerank-itis, and its contagious.

Is there a cure for Pagerank-itis?
Yes, there is, but you might not like it.

To make the condition manageable (as I’m not sure it can be cured entirely in all cases) I prescribe large doses of original content and quality organically grown inbound links.

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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.

HeatMap Theme Distilled
In the case of Heatmap Theme, stemming from my own personal interest, I created a theme that would help me to experiment with ad placement on my blog. Over the last couple of years I’ve done a lot of thinking about it, continued to build the theme, adding and refinining features to solve the problem more comprehensively.

What all this development means is that if you are thinking of starting out down the same track of creating a blog and want to place ads on it, I’ve already done more than two years of thinking about the problem, and have built solutions into the theme. When you buy the theme you are effectively buying a head start on solving all this stuff for yourself.

Ultimate Do-Everything Themes
Of course there are a few ultimate-do-every-possible-thing themes out there in the market. Sure it sounds good. The power to design the blog of your dreams to pixel perfection is enticing. But wait. Even though the hype says that even you can become a super blog designer overnight with these things, and you can tweak every parameter within an inch of its life, do you really have time for all that? Or would you rather look for a solution that has already solved the problem that you have?

Life Is Too Short – Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
Unless you are actually a proper web designer or are interested in becoming a theme designer, I’d encourage you to look for a theme that helps you to do what you need do, rather than starting from a blank-canvas-infinite-possibility theme. Look for solutions from a theme author who has spent some time thinking about the niche of your blogging problem, and chances are you will save time, and spend more time blogging, and less time tweaking and fiddling.

But if you actually like tweaking and fiddling…
If (like me two years ago) you find that your niche blogging problem hasn’t been adequately catered for, watch out! First of all you start tweaking a theme to make it do what you want, then you get frustrated and say to yourself “I’ll just make my own theme and solve all my problems!” and before you know it you have caught the WordPress themeing bug and end up becoming a Theme Designer!

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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!

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The Meaning of Liff – My Contribution

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.

Here’s how you do it:

You see a placename on a signpost.
You come up with a definition for that word, using it to describe a concept, feeling or thing that currently has no word attached to it.
Here are some of my own examples. These are real Australian placenames. You’ll get the idea.

Goondiwindi:
A small embarrassing fart unexpectedly expelled when laughing out loud in quiet company.

Ardleton:
A person of advancing years who drives at a speed so slow that they could possibly pass away before they reach their destination.

Barrogan:
A frustrated person who is in a hurry to drive somewhere quickly, and who is being prevented from doing so because they are stuck behind an Ardleton.

Conway:
A road that you drive down for a considerable distance before you realise that a prankster has in fact turned the sign at the last junction in the opposite direction.

Hindmarsh:
An inviting patch of lawn which appears to be dry and the perfect spot for a picnic, however, after sitting there for an extended period you discover that your bottom is actually wet.

Bangalow:
A car which has had its suspension lowered so as to increase performance, but which is in such a decrepit state of repair that you wonder why the owner would bother in the first place.

Andover:
The act of hanging around for as little time as possible at a car dealership when you trade your old car for a new one, knowing that the old one is on its last legs and will probably never start again.

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Give up the day job, and get a life!

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.

Now I work at home, with my Wife, doing our own thing, the HeatMap Thing, The Paint In Your Pyjamas thing, and other assorted art and creativity related things. Good things. People seem to love our things. We are grateful. We look forward to Fridays.

Fridays are the day when we do ‘our thing’, and in the case of the last few Fridays, it has been a ‘chocolate thing’. Yesterday (Friday of course) we decided to go to our local Chocolate Cafe and indulge in a (chocolate) Coffee and some (chocolate) cake. We go to ‘Sweet Tempered’ in Noosa Junction, (tucked down the Lanyana Arcade, fortuitously opposite to a Dentist and Florist’s shop). We had our usual Milk Chocolate Mocha, which is a regular Mocha except it has melted milk chocolate dripping down the inside of the glass cup (you can see its sticky ooziness through the glass) nicely finished off with froth and more chocolate.

We also had two cakes; a classic warm fudge brownie (and cream), with a lovely thin crispy crust on top, and a deliciously moist and chocolate gooey nuttiness inside. Lovely. The second cake was not chocolate based, but instead a zesty lemon slice, again with a lovely thin crispy crust on top, but, upon closer inspection a surprisingly thick base under the zesty lemon. The base was so thick that Dylan (the co-owner of the shop) had thoughtfully supplied a knife to cut it with.

I was initially concerned that this was not a good thing. Having watched many episodes of ‘Masterchef’ of course I have ‘learned’ how to be an ‘expert taster’, probably like the rest of the Australian population. It must be quite a pain for all the chefs out there. I extracted the knife, put on my best Matt Preston demeanour, chopped off a piece, fearing a tough mouthful of biscuit. I needn’t have worried. The base crumbled to sweet goo in my mouth and mingled with the zesty lemon. Gorgeous. A nice dab of cream took the edge off the citrus. Heavenly.

So to sum up, if you visit Noosa and you don’t visit Dylan and Kate for Chocolate, then you’re missing out. Leave the beach immediately, pop on a sarong, rent a mini-moke and ride over the hill to Noosa Junction and get some Sweet Tempered in you

So, that was my Friday morning. How was yours?

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Further Reading

FREE Download MINECRAFT 1.4.2 with PREMIUM SPEED

Download Resident Evil 6 for Pc

LEON & HELENA

CHRIS & PIERS

JAKE & SHERRY

ADA WONG

Just don’t serve me frozen carrots

More Blogging Please!

The Art of Extreme Gardening

Pop Stars I Have Met

Bananas In The Back Garden

A Cure-all for your Google SEO Obsession?

Pick a Theme to Solve your Problem

So many Ideas – So Little of Me!

The Meaning of Liff – My Contribution

Give up the day job, and get a life!

Who the Heck is Deadbysun?

Recent Things I Have Written

Old Things I Have Written