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		<title>Hello World!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past is gone, the future isn&#8217;t here yet, so might as well explore what the present has to offer.
Welcome to the sequel of my so-called life. As a post-nomadic expat it&#8217;s often easy to forget there are still people somewhere out there who would like to know how you&#8217;re doing, what you&#8217;re thinking about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a title="me @ Here and there and everywhere" href="http://anujossain.blogspot.com">past</a> is gone, the future isn&#8217;t here yet, so might as well explore what the present has to offer.</p>
<p>Welcome to the sequel of my so-called life<a title="My So-Called Life" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_So-Called_Life">.</a> As a post-nomadic expat it&#8217;s often easy to forget there are still people somewhere out there who would like to know how you&#8217;re doing, what you&#8217;re thinking about and what new adventures life unfolds for you.</p>
<p>Title &#8220;Hello World&#8221; came with the software, but might as well use the metaphor. Like it is tradition when stumbling across new programming languages to explore the syntax, get all-systems-go by writing a simple program spitting out Hello World on an output device &#8211; this post is me looking at life curious to give it that initial test run&#8230; and then start building further.</p>
<p>Building what, telling which stories? Anything, really &#8211; <a title="Randomstances" href="http://randomstances.org">random circumstances</a> usually make life too unpredictable to be able to pre-define how to approach recounting the experience. It could be any or all of the below or perhaps something else altogether.</p>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a> &#8211; as that&#8217;s where I spend most of my days for the time being</li>
<li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/narnua/3222504151/sizes/l/">Being Finnish</a> &#8211; as that&#8217;s where I spent most of my life so far</li>
<li>Travels &#8211; as the roads might still seduce me, and I miss telling those stories</li>
<li><a title="Hospitality Exchange on Wikitravel" href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Hospitality_exchange">Hospitality exchange</a> &#8211; as that&#8217;s what got me uprooted in the first place and there&#8217;s some unfinished business left  as an itch to be scratched</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mycplus.com/featured-articles/hello-world-programs-in-300-programming-languages/">Hello Worlds</a> in software, on platforms &#8211; as that&#8217;s what I do for a living (and for fun at times)</li>
<li>Concepts of free software and <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives">p2p</a> applied to life in general in a post-scarcity techno-utopian anarcho-geek tree-hugger world &#8211; as that&#8217;s what my chosen surroundings mostly seem to facilitate</li>
<li>Just days in a life &#8211; as sometimes it&#8217;s good to just write it all out, anyway.</li>
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<p>&#8230;expect nothing, be prepared for anything!<br />
(and feel free to say hi in the comments whenever <img src='http://blog.randomstances.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
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