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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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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?
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Where did the time go?
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2 min read
Well, actually, we had a baby.
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D/DN: Nu på svenska!
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Nu kör vi, eller hur?
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Pimpin’ my portfolio
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It gives me a certain comfort to have all of my works in the one location.
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Clearing out the linkrot
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It stands to reason that a medium as subject to change as the Internet will, over time, exhibit signs of decay. In the case of a website that amalgamates posts from at least five other sites, and which has been online in one form or another since 2001, this decay manifests itself via linkrot, defined…
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Eelderwolde: somewhere in Drenthe
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2 min read
Time to get back to basics.
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New site theme: Editor
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D/DN is currently down for maintenance. Here’s why.