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    <updated>2007-01-31T11:31:00Z</updated>
    <subtitle>The Nature of Man is Freakier than any Fiction</subtitle>
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    <title>Starting...</title>
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    <published>2007-01-31T11:09:34Z</published>
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    <summary>Well, the first entry has got to be the hardest. It&apos;s even worse than sitting in front of a white sheet (of either paper or screen). Not only is there nothing to guide, but it is also the starting point...</summary>
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        <name>Scott Little</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Well, the first entry has got to be the hardest. It's even worse than sitting in front of a white sheet (of either paper or screen). Not <strong>only</strong> is there nothing to guide, but it is also the starting point which has effectively no observers! No one knows about this blog (yet!) and so I'm theoretically writing to a future audience that <em>may</em> exist and then even if they do, will they ever go back to actually read this first post, which will have fallen off the page by then? Who knows? I guess that is part of the adventure.</p>

<p>I've been reading/lurking on many blogs over the past 18 months and even occasionally making contributions in the comments. Not anything that I would call significant, but it's something. I thought that it would be useful to perhaps start writing my own, mostly for myself. Hopefully that is why most people write blogs, since usually blogs don't have a real obvious outer experience - it's an expression of the inner person. But you never know how it will develop and how it will affect others. Many of the blogs that I read are also very personal, but they add something important to my own daily experience and life. It's strange. I'm a fairly confident person and don't need a lot of assurance from others, especially those who are just acquaintances or even unknown, however I find that it is pleasant to read experiences, thoughts and rants that are similar to my own.</p>

<p>It's also a good experience and helpful to me to ground myself with other experiences, thoughts and rants that do <strong>NOT</strong> reflect my own. That allows me to question what I know and feel and believe.</p>

<p>That should happen every day of every person's life.</p>

<p>So maybe, if I can do that even once a month for someone else, my selfish work here can become something that has contributed to others!</p>

<p>Welcome</p>]]>
        
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