Category Archives: General

Breaking News

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Cora

German Defence Secretary Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg has resigned over the plagiarism affair. About time. Hollywood star Jane Russell has died aged 89.

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World Travel Meme

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Cora

Gacked from Jay Lake. visited 31 states (13.7%)Create your own visited map of The World Not too bad, but then I grew up with a father who had to travel a lot for his job. Lots of Europe and North … Continue reading →

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Quick Link Round-up on the Usual Suspects – err, Subjects

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Cora

I’m still busy, so here’s a quick link roundup: The doctorate of Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg has been revoked by the university of Bayreuth because of academic malfeasance. Eric Rosenfield weighs in on the nihilism in epic fantasy issue at … Continue reading →

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Awards, writing links and yet more plagiarism in politics and nihilism in fantasy

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Cora

I’m busy with school prep work and a big translation project, one of those 100 plus page operation manuals, that just came in. So here is a link round-up: Today, my local paper published an insightful interview with Andreas Fischer-Lescarno, … Continue reading →

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See the stats shoot up – Yet more on plagiarism, nihilist fantasy, thrillers and blogging

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Cora

My website stats have really been exploding these past few days. Yesterday was the busiest day since the revamp/return of this blog in October 2010 with 103 visitors according to the WordPress stats plug-in. Most people seem to have come … Continue reading →

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Oh Joy! – Yet more on Plagiarism, Nihilism and Prescriptive Linguists – Oh, Joy!

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Cora

The spam catcher plug-in I use is normally fairly effective, but it also has its moments of fail. Today, it let through an obvious spam comment (for online shoe shops of all things), while a legitimate comment got caught in … Continue reading →

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Why Plagiarism is a Big Deal

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Cora

Today, I was at a family birthday dinner. On the plus side, I got to spend some time with a family member in a difficult situation and had an excellent meal of antipasti, pasta with creamy vegetable tomato sauce and … Continue reading →

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Winter Returns

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Cora

After the almost spring like weather of the past few days, winter is now making a comeback. Right now it’s snowing outside and we have maybe one or two centimeters of snow. It’s probably not going to last, but it … Continue reading →

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I’m back! – now with extra Zeppelin porn

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Cora

Yes, I’m back. Turned out the problem was caused by a WordPress plug-in. Oddly enough, the plug-in had been working just fine for months, then it suddenly fails. In other news, my new TV was delivered today. I have now … Continue reading →

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A Cold Day on the Town

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Cora

Since yesterday was the peculiar holiday known as report card holiday, i.e. two days of no school after the half term report cards have been given out, I decided to take the opportunity to go into Bremen. Actually I wanted … Continue reading →

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