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My blog features spelling errors

My blog has spelling errors in it.

Most people who have read this site for long enough have realised that this bloke Matt can code for Britain but can still let the odd spelling error through. As can his guest writers sometimes.

The reason is that my brain is wired up differently to yours - we call this alternative wiring dyslexia. It means that I am naturally likely to excel at some tasks and yet may find other things a bit more of a challenge.

For example I can visually organise massive amounts of data in my head and almost instinctually spot anomalies in data. This means that I tend to make very quick and insightful statistical analysis and, as you might know, have a tendency to present charts with my blog posts.

On occasion I have ideas that defy expression in words and I turn to art to convey these ideas.

Sometimes words come out with a few letters a little bit wrong. Not so much that people don't know what I want to say but less than one hundred percent perfect. On the whole I think I would prefer to stay good with data, charts and code logic at the cost that sometimes I spell things squiffy.

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Stop, Vote Time! What the blogs are saying.

What have the local bloggers been saying about election day?

For goodness sake make the effort to vote Urges Michael of Michael's bookshop while Simon Moores reminds us that (in the face of an ellection) Jokes are seriouse.

Despite the message from leaders of all flavours to please go out and vote this time as currently it's all Conservatives with a few really good Liberal Democrats holding on but the blue could switch to a more blue and yellow format.

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Thanet Star is still here!

You do realise yesterday's "news story" was a hoax right?

Yesterday was April the first. The day of jokes and hoaxes. If for some funny reason you fell for my rather still story about Thanet's Tar Ltd and me selling out to an environmentally damaging company then may I be the first to say ha ha ha, thank you.

What was the best April Fools Joke of the year for you?
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No news is...

Whatever happened to Thanet Star?

I've not been writing for a little while now. There is a good reason and when I've gotten a few miles between me and the shock of it I will try to write about it. In the mean time please talk among yourselves.
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Sorry Simon but I'm just not that in to you.

Oh how I love the smell of insults in the morning.

It would seem that my one time dance partner Dr Moores is once more trying to rekindle the flame that was our very famous dance of Vroomfondel and Majikthise by slinging insults in the general direction of The Thanet Star. But as I have made abundantly clear already I am Simon is yesterday's news for me. I'm over him - there are more interesting dance partners on the floor.

When Simon "I know IT" Moores is ready and willing to actually back up his statements with more than his personal opinion then maybe, just maybe, I will take him seriously again. The "doc" blogs via a cheap blogspot address where his incoherent rambles site under the title Thanet Life - you can Google it for yourself.
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Flaaaaaaaaaaaig!

Nooooooooooooooooo!

I drop out of things for a month and when I resurface looking to find out what has been going on I find this: Winding Up where Tony Flaig says goodbye to blogging.

Tony was one of the longest standing (old school) of Thanet Bloggers. He can't just go. Big News Margate is... was, a huge part of the scene.

I am in shock.
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What have I been doing?

I've been through a range of life changes lately and have not felt especially like getting into local news.

I blog...
I will continue shortly.

Before I do here is some of what I have been up to.

I have started a new blog covering my weight loss journey I called it My Big Fat Arse (dot com). As a result of this Mr C talked me into going for a 9 mile cross country hike which I somehow survived.

Here is a video using some of the footage I captured during the hike. I'm the one hidden behind the camera.



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