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I've been playing around recently with Wikipedia, and made a small contribution to that source of collective knowledge. As you have all obviously noticed, there is a dearth of information on Kazakhstan, so I decided to add some info on my "home town". It's tough to find reliable, free, unclassified information on Kazakhstan in general, let alone Aktobe, so I gave it my best. I also added some information on a few Kazakh historical figures, namely the confusingly named Abul-Khayr Khan, Abulkhair Khan and Ablai Khan. Kazakhs can keep them all straight, but something needs to be done to spread a little more knowledge of history on the step. No one even ever notices Central Asian history post-Chingis Khan ... but the Moghuls came from somewhere.

Setting Up

Well, I now have my laptop and wireless access, so I thought I would bow to the peer pressure and create a blog. We'll see how this one turns out. Just what the subject material will be is anyone's guess, but I'll definitely try to give some observations on life, people, society and issues of import as I see them from Boston. Perhaps it will be something of an "outsider's" perspective, given my time away from the States. Who knows?