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According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.

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Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant

2002-Jul-21 [this day]

Gifts may come with curses

Cassandra was always right in her forecasts. The daughter of King Priam of Troy, she had been given the gift of prophecy by the god Apollo. Her curse was that her consistently accurate forecasts were always ignored. She forecast the fall of Troy, but nobody believed her — and Troy fell. She also forecast her own murder, but that was ignored... until Agamemnon's wife axed her to death. Being farsighted and right doesn't entail that people will listen to you... at least until it's too late to listen. [this item]

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