Category Archives: Blog

Job searching with social media – Day 1

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Cat

For the past few months I have been looking for a new job, as well as working on updating my CV and all the other things that come with it. Up until yesterday I was unable to utilise social media … Continue reading →

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5 years – my blogging anniversary

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Cat

I have been blogging here for five years now. Some stats and things: Posts: 655 Comments: 4,777 Categories: 222 All-time views: 357,893 Views on busiest day: 3,501 Busiest day: July 27th 2007 Numerous design changes I love wordpress.com Running as … Continue reading →

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A worrying event for a blogger

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Cat

In all the years I’ve been online I’ve had some bad reactions from people that disagreed with me online or simply wanted to annoy me on Xbox Live. Luckily, with having taken so much of my online identity ‘offline’ to … Continue reading →

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Online identity

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Cat

It somehow came up in a conversation tonight on how long I’ve been on some sites and realisation kind of hit. carocat.co.uk will be five years old in September with currently about 560 posts and at least one post a … Continue reading →

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So it’s been a bit quiet on here.

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Cat

This is the first time in eleven days that I’m using my laptop. It’s not even been switched on once in the meantime. There are several reasons for it: I’m still quite busy both with work and socially. For example … Continue reading →

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About the CSS upgrade

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Cat

For the next few days or weeks this blog might look a little different, or rather theme-less, as one of the paid upgrades I’m using is about to expire. As I don’t currently have a PayPal account for reasons I … Continue reading →

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Post revisited

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Cat

I wrote a blog post in November last year which summed up a few reasons on how my usage of online media has changed over the years due to necessity rather than by my own wishes [which was also linked … Continue reading →

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To boldly go where no one else is [yet]?

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Cat

I’ve been blogging on and off since 2003 when I moved to the UK for good. That blog didn’t survive very long and I’ve deleted its content in 2004 when I realised I wasn’t all that comfortable with it any … Continue reading →

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This blog is now three years old!

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Cat

Just realised that I missed the third birthday of this blog which was on September 4th. Come to think of it, I believe I may have missed the 1st and 2nd birthdays, too.. I’m not around on here as much … Continue reading →

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@Xelis is awesome, just look at this awesome #TwitLight banner!

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Cat

I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve told @Xelis how awesome he is. He is one of the most talented graphic designers I’ve come across, he’s made me many signatures for forums and headers so far, including the … Continue reading →

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#TwitLight, Handwriting and other things

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Cat

It’s been about a month since I’ve started temping at the cafe and I really like it so far. I have never met as many crazy people in one place before, but this is made up by some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in #TwitLight, Blog, Blog community project, Community and Games, Personal, Tumblr, Twitter | 8 Comments

New look, again.

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Cat

It’s that time of year again where I feel that it’s time for a new blog theme, after all the last change was in October! WordPress.com has added many themes in the last years, but seeing that I’ve got the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, CSS, Wordpress.com | 12 Comments

Happy Birthday to ‘cat on tumblr’!

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Cat

My tumblr blog, ‘cat on tumblr’ is now exactly one year old! Go me!

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Sites that I visit on a daily basis

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Cat

Lately I have been looking at changing my online experience and more so consolidating more things into fewer sites which really just makes it sound like I’m talking about a loan on daytime TV! In order to look at where … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, Blog, Films and TV, Firefox, Google, Last.fm, Tumblr, TV Shows, Twitter, Wikipedia, Wordpress.com | 3 Comments

Procrastination at it’s finest!

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Cat

That’s a list of things I wanted to get done on this blog today ranging from sorting out some pages, clearing up the sidebar, transferring more content from cat on tumblr and creating new pages. How many of the things … Continue reading →

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Apologies to all RSS readers

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Cat

I’m currently in the process of importing posts from other places to this blog so you will most likely see them come up in the RSS. Sorry!

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Coincidentally.. [and something about laziness]

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Cat

None of the people that were the cause of the last two blog posts have reacted to it, but I’ve managed to have a whole lot of other people apologise to me for some reason. It’s also not, as Ian‘s … Continue reading →

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Happy Nikolaus 2008!

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Cat

This is pretty much the perfect time to get a blog post in as I can’t just ignore my tradition of the last years by not posting something today. Last year’s post and the post from 2006 are still on … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Christmas '06, Christmas '07, Christmas '08, England, Germany, Life in general, NaNoWriMo, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress.com | 10 Comments