Category Archives: Sites

I have fallen in love

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Cat

This image is taken from RachelCreative and there are many more quality images from a very talented person. I just love that picture, it’s a lovely building, the colours are great and it just has so much about it. I … Continue reading →

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Firefox

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Cat

I really can’t stand Internet Explorer, so I’m all for Firefox. It’s got the extension, add ons and themes that I want and is just perfect for me. There is an extensive campaign out on the internet of Firefox friends … Continue reading →

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The impossible battle against cancer

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Cat

This is one of the most depressing things I have seen in a long time. It is a series of pictures by photographer Renée C. Byer that won this years Pulitzer Prize. If you are unfamiliar with the Pulitzer Prize, … Continue reading →

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MyBlogLog = MySpace?

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Cat

I’ve recently joined MyBlogLog as you can see by widget in the sidebar. The idea behind it is to give bloggers a place to, well, a community. Bloggers can list all their blogs, upload pictures, join blog communities to show … Continue reading →

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Nationstates

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Cat

A post made by drmike in the wordpress.com support forums made me realise that I haven’t logged into my Nationstates account in a very long time. Turns out that my account was disabled, but with a little help from Timethief … Continue reading →

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Think before you post

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Cat

Hat tip to zufallsfaktor. I have to say that this was kind of a reminder to myself as well. It just seems that the internet is getting smaller and smaller as well and I’ve got more and more profiles and … Continue reading →

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Internet forums Part 2.

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Cat

In an earlier post I made I stated several things that annoyed me about people on internet forums. Becky commented and gave me a link to this and I thought it was so brilliant that I’d share it again: How … Continue reading →

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Anything new? Not really.

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Cat

Things have been a bit quiet in my blog lately. I’ve been busy helping my friend pass her English exams which is fairly difficult to do over msn. Several forums I frequent seem to have an increase in posters (and … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Community and Games, Forums, Life in general, Matchbox360, MSN, Oblivion - Elder Scrolls IV, Rainbow 6 Vegas, Sites, Viva Pinata, Wordpress.com, Xbox Live | 15 Comments

Things that annoy me about people on internet forums

Posted on January 16, 2007 by Cat

People that don’t bother reading the thread they post in. People that repeat themselves or ask questions and expect them to be answered within minutes. People that cannot spell. People that can’t back up their own arguments. People that believe … Continue reading →

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The ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ and how it could work

Posted on January 6, 2007 by Cat

Before I start explaining this great site I came across the other day, let me just say that I absolutely love Wikipedia. I use it almost every day and can get lost on there for ages just linking from one … Continue reading →

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2006 – My year in Review

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Cat

And what an interesting year it’s been. These are a few things that I have been up to or that have changed this year, in no particular order: In July Andrew, Ian, Suki and I moved house. Ian bought his … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Community and Games, Forums, Gamerscore, Halo games, House, Housemates, Life in general, Matchbox360, My cats, Oblivion - Elder Scrolls IV, Rainbow 6 Vegas, Sites, Xbox Live, XL LAN | 9 Comments

Gamercards

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Cat

Matchbox360 has a new member of staff, DarkGashX, who has his own site for Gamercards and will be contributing to the new design which will go live very soon. He has many different ones available, including this one which is … Continue reading →

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MSN conversations and who shouldn’t talk to me….

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Cat

This is something that has been annoying me for quite a while now, so bear with me if I get a bit carried away. I seem to have the whole world and it’s dog on my msn list which consists … Continue reading →

Posted in Community and Games, Forums, House, Life in general, Matchbox360, MSN, Sites, Xbox Live | 35 Comments

I hate advertisements

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Cat

Yes, most of you will probably agree with me, advertisement on the internet is very annoying and sometimes causes long delays when loading pages. I have the Adblock Plus Firefox extension which takes care of most ads on webpages, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Community and Games, Firefox, Life in general, RSS Feeds, Sites | 31 Comments

Games related Blogs and Sites

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Cat

Now you may have seen that I’ve updated my blogroll with some new links again. Let me introduce you to some of the blogs and sites out there: Matchbox360 is a UK based gaming site that offers 360 and Xbox … Continue reading →

Posted in Community and Games, Forums, Halo games, Matchbox360, Sites, Xbox Live, XL LAN | 7 Comments

XL and X06

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Cat

Well, hard to say which was more of an announcement today really! ;) Matchbox360 today announced details of XL which is their first LAN event and will take place in Birmingham on the 25th and 26th of November. If anyone … Continue reading →

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Google Image Labeler

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Cat

I’ve been getting quite addicted to this lately. Basically it’s a new thing from Google (labeled Beta as everything by Google ;)) and it puts you and another person together to label random images so they can improve the quality … Continue reading →

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