Author Archives: Cat

Auf Wiedersehen, former native German language skills..

August 26, 2010 – 3:53 am

I’ve lived in English speaking countries for approximately nine years of my life and during that time my German has deterioated immensly. . I still remember the first time I noticed myself thinking in English; I was 14 years old, walking down Friar St in Reading having just left WH Smith and my English pen [...]

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More personal stuff

August 2, 2010 – 9:55 pm

As I’ve already mentioned in my last post there’s a lot of stuff that’s going wrong in my life. Those that know me will know that not only this isn’t the first time but also that I normally try to keep as much of my problems off the internet. The latter I am struggling with [...]

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Why do tweets about alcohol always get the most replies?

July 31, 2010 – 11:01 am

Surely it would indicate that most of my followers may have too much! Here’s the previous time a tweet about alcohol got quite a few and this is what I got yesterday. . How long does a screwtop bottle of red wine remain drinkable once opened? # . jhomerston: I’d say about 2 days, 3 [...]

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It’s almost like something unusual happened in Reading!

July 22, 2010 – 7:13 pm

10 hours. 81 tweets. The Reading hashtag. Most of them about the same thing: asilon: Please don’t rain in #rdg; I have a lot of washing to get dry today. # parent2: @asilon Sorry! RT @getreading: Flash warning of heavy rain for Reading: http://bit.ly/97vS2h #rdgnews #rdg # lortolan: Here comes the rain in #shinfield… RT [...]

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Gamer Banter: Cover art? No, thanks!

July 22, 2010 – 4:11 am

Gamer Banter is a monthly gaming discussion of multiple bloggers. More info is here and please contact Terry from Game Couch if you wish to take part. July’s topic is set by Terry from Game Couch: How important is cover art to you? Not at all.

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Cancer Research UK – Race for Life – Reading recap

July 20, 2010 – 6:53 pm

As I’ve mentioned before I was part of the volunteer team at Reading’s Race for Life this past weekend.

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Raoul Moat and the state of the media and government

July 16, 2010 – 6:03 am

. The 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt was a major police operation in North East England in which armed police officers under the command of the Northumbria Police force attempted to apprehend Raoul Moat, a 37-year-old man from Newcastle upon Tyne who had recently been released from Durham Prison. Moat, armed with a sawn-off shotgun, was [...]

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Race for Life

July 15, 2010 – 7:06 am

I’ve long since supported Cancer Research UK with monthly donations and I have in the past volunteered with them, though it never actually came together as the events were either fully staffed already or at times when I couldn’t make it. A few months ago @chelthan told me that she was taking part in the [...]

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On the decision to not send that friend request

July 11, 2010 – 4:09 pm

With social networking sites it’s fairly easy to find people I’ve previously lost touch with. This week I came across two people that used to be a very big part of my life. One of them was my childhood friend I had known since I can first remember as we lived in the same house [...]

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Back to Facebook

July 9, 2010 – 11:58 pm

I deactivated my Facebook account at some point in late 2008 when, after having spent an evening setting specific privacy settings and lists, I realised that too much information was visible to people I didn’t want to see it. Sure, I could have limited the information I put on there in the first place, but [...]

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