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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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Writing about ‘The Americans’ with Alicia Sometimes
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It seemed that the show’s producers had spent more on wigs than they had on the script.
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You’re Killing Me: An update
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So excited that I just had to share this here, too. My imaginary #Netflix series ‘You’re Killing Me’, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band #Pavement, has been name-checked on a podcast about Pavement, entitled The Pavement Conundrum! Listen in from 27:20 to 28:35 for some smooth…
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“Because parenting isn’t a real career”
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I am humbled, proud, excited and just a tad braggish to announce three huge milestones in my previously unacknowledged career as a parent. First, our oldest child, who is six, started school this week, and kicked so many goals in doing so that it left a small, permanent tear in the corner of my eye.…
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10K Ultra (JK)
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Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10-kilometre race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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How to run a Swedish mile
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Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10klm race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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I’m really proud to have played a small part in helping the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations put together the second edition of its groundbreaking study on leadership in UN peace operations, Considerations for Mission Leadership in UN Peace Operations. My role in the project entailed editing and bringing together six chapters…
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While the history of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Oxford lecture could fill a book, this post explores the untold stories behind three known versions of the text.
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Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past three months: a reissue of Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture, ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’. On 30 May 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld gave a lecture in Oxford about the international civil service. Now, 60 years later, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) has reissued…
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Eksell WordPress theme
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There are layers of nerd in the WordPress universe.
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Ten years in Sweden
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And … that’s a wrap for the decade! This time 10 years ago the K&D Stylingz crew travelled for the first time to “breezy” Karlskrona in the Swedish province of Blekinge. The entire country was blanketed in heavy snow and, as you can see from this picture, even the sea was frozen. For, like, a…
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The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
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It’s super exciting for me that “Capa” has received not a second but a third lease of life, having first “appeared” in the pages of Southerly waaaaaay back in 2007.
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New front page, liveblogging feature added
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Well, despite the seemingly unending flow of posts about Camp Davey it’s been pretty busy around here lately. In the Intramanet industry we talk about the back end and the front end. While you’ve no doubt been entertained by the travails of Scaramouche, the D/DN boffins have been tinkering away behind the scenes to ensure…
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New site theme: ‘Chaplin’
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Yeah, yeah. I KNOW!
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“whanging in the absence of wind”
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Mature-age students are really cool
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But isn’t uni supposed to be for young people?