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Joining the Ministry of Magic
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Last week Harry Potter had an interview with the Ministry of Magic to become a junior assistant in the Department of Muggle Relations. Defeating Voldemort may have benefitted the wizarding world; it certainly did not secure Harry's future. So the you...
Young, dynamic, creative? It’s time to join!
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The rumours were louder and louder in the last weeks… And now it's official. The new competition to enter the European institutions has been launched this week. I was in this situation about two years ago, I know how it is, how people feel... Let's...
A flag
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We were walking up a snowy mountain on this cold Sunday morning in a small town in western Germany. Half way up the mountain, there was a blue flag with 12 stars waving on a silver pole in front of a private home. The sun was shining brightly. And...
2009
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Image by mugley via Flickr What a year! 2009 is approaching its end and its been and up and down year for me. Blogging What a year for me and blogging! It started off great being selected for the first Th!nk about it competition and then that led...
Predictions for 2010
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It is that time of the year again – the time that pundits like to gaze into their crystal ball and divine a few predictions for the year to come. Never one to be left out, let me offer a few here. • First, for the first year since 2005, the...
Sharp Turn on the Rock Road.
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I’ve been asked to repost this little fictional wandering I wrote. It’s 1943, and Eamonn De Valera is dead in a car crash. Young new Taoiseach Sean Lemass is faced with a choice which could change the destiny of the nation. ...
The Naughties – A Valediction
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Tomorrow we say goodbye to the first decade of the new millennium. And the last ten years were troubled ones. The 1990s were characterised by a captivating optimism that the new world after the Cold War would bring peace and prosperity for all. The t...
The Noughties – A Valediction
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Tomorrow we say goodbye to the first decade of the new millennium. And the last ten years were troubled ones. The 1990s were characterised by a captivating optimism that the new world after the Cold War would bring peace and prosperity for all. The t...
Politics and time zones; a few vague reflections
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My thingy got blocked and so I had to reset it. According to the factory settings, it gives a loud ‘ping’ whenever I receive an e-mail and a similarly loud ‘dring’ when I receive a text message. I haven’t had the time to...
