The Holiday Season Is Upon Us

Just announcing that I’ll be taking a little break from blogging at Hellipsis, due to my increasing workload over the Christmas season. After the turn of the year I’m going to attempt to redesign the blog, purchase a domain name for it, and blog more often.

That being said, I’ll break my blogging vacation on Hellipsis if something comes up in politics and international relations which I just can’t afford to not blog about.

I’m also planning on making blogging a bit simpler by purchasing the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet to use as a blogging tool. [more information on the N810 can be found on (especially) tabletblog.com] This little gadget should make a world of a difference in the frequency of my blogging. Time will tell.

Because I’ll be at work 5-7 days a week, in retail, until the end of the year, I’m focusing on a new blog I just started, the Consumer Etiquette Guide at http://consumers.wordpress.com. You can subscribe to the RSS feed at feeds.feedburner.com/consumers.

My apologies for putting politics in the background for the meantime. Trust me, I feel as bummed about this as you might. I’ll be back, worry you not. While I’m on a slight blogging vacation, I’ll also be applying to 8 different universities to study International Relations and English Philology, which’ll at the very least teach me how to blog on Hellipsis more efficiently, and at the most get me a career in international politics.

Time will tell. See you in January, unless something important comes up in the meantime!

Oh, and Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Diplomatically,
Jani Helle

My Other Projects: Existential Questions, Budapest City Guide, and Helsinki City Guide

I’m really an overambitious person… I work full-time, yet I now write five different blogs, as well as administering quite a few groups on Facebook. Oh, and a forum for the Existential Questions blog…

Allow me a minute or two to run through my side projects which I operate in addition to my personal blog at http://janihelle.wordpress.com and my Political Science/Stupidity blog at http://hellipsis.wordpress.com.

My most ambitious project has to be Existential Questions. Over a few beers I got a great idea for a Facebook group and a blog, as well as a forum and a web TV channel in the works.
The whole idea is to collect a database of responses to life’s questions, such as What Is The Meaning Of Life? and Are We Alone In The Universe?, as well as debating about more controversial issues such as Abortion and Creation vs Evolution.
If you’re interested, you can find the blog at http://existentialquestions.wordpress.com. Don’t forget about the Forum, the Facebook group, or the Existential TV channel!

My two newest projects are only a few days old. Somewhat similar to Existential Questions, these two are attempts at Travel Guide 2.0. As the web moves towards being more and more user-generated, most travel guides are still dragging their feet.

With this in mind, I have started the Budapest City Guide and the Helsinki City Guide, two cities close to my heart.

The whole premise is that you can spend years in one city and never learn about all the cool places to go, see and experience. Traditional travel guides only go so far as to mention that these places exist. People who actually spend time there will always know better. That is the key point with these groups/blogs. Anyone who reads this and has been to, lived in or wanted to visit Budapest or Helsinki could gain from these guides. All it takes is for you, the reader, to share your experiences! Please visit the blogs at http://budapestcityguide.wordpress.com and http://helsinkicityguide.wordpress.com and don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feeds for each site! If you’re on Facebook, don’t forget to check out and join the Budapest City Guide group and the Helsinki City Guide group!

I’ll leave you with a few slogans for these projects:
Do You Exist?

What Are YOUR Favourite Things About Budapest?

What Are YOUR Favourite Things About Helsinki?

Technical Difficulties

There haven't been any updates or new posts recently on my blogs, due to techical difficulties. Namely, I can't fully access the internet through my phone because the screen is messed up and I can't see what I'm doing. The reason I'm not using a computer is because I don't have one. My cell phone is my computer, and a crappy one at that too…

I do most of my blogging from my phone, only using a computer to do finishing touches to the posts, whenever I can. Thanks to Opera Mini and RSS feeds, I'm able to follow the news all the time, yet recently it's been difficult to do so as my phone is slowly but surely breathing it's last breaths.

Things will change soon, as I'm finally getting a new phone, the Nokia N95, sometime next week. Hopefully. Well, according to Nokia, it's not a cell phone. It's a multimedia computer. Which is just fine with me, because for me my phone is my computer. And this phone has it all.

So, my blogging will continue at the beginning of May. Stay tuned…