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Another Typo in Wikipedia’s Logo Fractures the Kannada too

I know Devanagari but I never noticed this typo., never until I dug this story. Its a zig saw puzzle , with “wi” written all over its block with different languages Wikipedia supporting in their own script. NYTimes said “this time, however, they are not examples of vandalism at the user-created site but typographical errors in Wikipedia’s own logo.”. They noticed Sanskrit “wi” in Devanagari script. Someone else complained its Japaneses Katakana script is wrong too.

Some Errors Defy Fixes: A Typo in Wikipedia’s Logo Fractures the Sanskrit

The symbolism is not exactly ideal. Those on the lookout for errors at Wikipedia have flagged a few more — this time, however, they are not examples of vandalism at the user-created site but typographical errors in Wikipedia’s own logo.

read more | digg story

Well well well , its Kannada script is wrong too. They have written some similar “wi” symbol (yet strange ) in kannada. In Sanskrit logo symbol reads “rwa” (as in Nirwana ), but in Kannada it does not make sence at all.

I dont have much of complaint, when they screwed Kannada’s mother Sanskrit itself- Kannada is what big deal.

Create your own cartoons

Toondoo is a very nice place where you can cartoon-ize your opinion. I did not spend much time there, yet. For now this is what I have for you. Click on the cartoon to view it properly.

I know it is not hilarious; it’s just my first try.

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My today’s experiments are ..

First day with Grease monkey, and already I am a big fan of it. It completely changed the way my regular websites look, especially some of the Google products (which otherwise look dry). Please go ahead and try , there are lot of them.

Screen shot my inbox now:

Censored in China !!!

Hurrrray…!!! I am blocked in China. Chinese government thinks my blog is a threat and it can mislead people (towards democracy??).

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ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಸೋಣ ಅಂದ್ರೆ…

`ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗು ಮಾಡೋದು ತುಂಬಾ ಕಷ್ಟ, ಒಂದು post ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕಿದ್ರೊ comment ಬರೀಬೇಕಿದ್ರೊ ಬರೆದು ಅಳಿಸಿ ಬರೆದು ಅಳಿಸಿ ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಹರ್ಕೊಂಡು ಒದ್ದಾಡಿದ್ರೂ ಅಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಇಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಕೀಗುಣಿತ. ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ translitration ಮಾಡುವ ಸರ್ವೀಸೇ ಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಈಗಿರುವ ಸರ್ವೀಸುಗಳು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಅನುವಾದನೇ ಮಾಡೋದಿಲ್ಲ. “ಬರಹ” ಎನೊ ಚನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ ಆದ್ರೇ ನಾವೀಗ web2.0 ನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಿವಿ ತಾನೇ , install ಮಡೊದು ಹಳೆ ಜಮಾನ, ಈಗೇಲ್ಲಾ writing, reading, bookmarking, sharing ಎಲ್ಲಾನೂ on-line . ಮನೆಲೇನೋ ಸರಿ ಆದೆ officeನಲ್ಲಿ install ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕು ಅಂತ ಕೂತ್ರೇ ನೇರವಾಗಿ ಮನೆಗೆ ಕಳಿಸ್ತಾರೆ. ಮತ್ತು ಏನೇನೋ ಸಮಸ್ಯೇಗಳು. ಕೆಲವು ಪುಟಗಳಲ್ಲಿ font ಓದಕ್ಕೇ ಆಗದಿದ್ದ್ರೇ , ಕೆಲವು URL ಓದಕ್ಕೇ ಅಗೋದಿಲ್ಲ bookmark ಮಾಡೋಣ ಅಂದ್ರೆ .

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“ಭಾಷೆ” ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ವಿಷಯ. ಬ್ಲಾಗು ಅಂದ್ರೆ ತುಂಬಾ casual ಆಗಿ ಬರೀಬೇಕು, ಇದು ದಿನಪತ್ರಿಕೆ ಅಲ್ಲ ನೋಡಿ. ಆದ್ರೇ ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷೆಯೇ ಹಾಗೆ, ಬರೆಯೋಕೇ ಒಂದು, ಮಾತಾಡೋಕೇ ಸಾವಿರ ಡಯಲೇಕ್ಟುಗಳು. ಸೀರಿಯಸ್ಸಾಗಿ ಬರೆದ್ರೇ ತುಂಬಾ ಬೋರು , casualಲಾಗಿ ಬರೆದ್ರೇ ತುಂಬಾ ವಿಚಿತ್ರ. ಒಂದು ವಾಕ್ಯ ನೋಡಿ ” ಎಷ್ಟು ಸುಂದರ ಹುಡುಗಿ ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದಾಳೆ ನೋಡಿ” ಎನ್ನುವುದನ್ನೇ ” ನೋಡ್ಲಾ ಮಗಾ.. ಎಂತಾ figure ಹೋಗ್ತವ್ಳೇ…” ಇಲ್ಲಾ “ನೋಡಿ ಮಾರಾಯರೇ , ಎಂತಾ ಚೆಂದವಾದ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದಾಳೆ”.

ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ದಿನಬಳಕೆಯ ಅರ್ಧಕ್ಕರ್ಧ ಶಬ್ದಗಳು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ, ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಶ ನುಗ್ಗಿಸಿ ಬರೀಬೇಕು. “ಬರಹವೆಂಬ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶವನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಗಣಕಯಂತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಟಾಪಿಸಿ” ತುಂಬಾ ವಿಚಿತ್ರವಾಗಿರುತ್ತೆ ಅಲ್ವಾ. ತುಂಬಾ ಆಂಗ್ಲ ಪದಗಳು ಬಂದರೊ ಬೇಜಾರು. ಕಡಿಮೆ ಬರೆದ್ರೆ ಏನು ಬರ್ದಿದ್ದಾನೇಂತ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗಲ್ಲ.

ಸಧ್ಯಕ್ಕೇ ಒಂದು ಬ್ಲಾಗು ನೋಡ್ದೆ. “ಬೊಗಳೆ ರಗಳೆ” ಅಂತ (ಬ್ಲಾಗಳೆ ರಗಳೆ ಇರ್ಬೇಕು ). ಒಂದು ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ blogroll maintain ಮಾದಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಏಲ್ಲರನ್ನೊ subscribe ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡ್ಬಿಟ್ಟೇ. ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಓದುವುದಂತೂ ಹಣೆಬರಹದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆದಿಲ್ಲ, ಬ್ಲಾಗಾದ್ರೂ ಓದೋಣ.

ಯಾರಾದ್ರೂ “ಬ್ಲಾಗು” ಶಬ್ದಕ್ಕೇ ಓಂದು ಕನ್ನಡ ಹೆಸರು ಹುಡುಕೀಪ್ಪಾ. ಕಟ್ಟೆ ಪುರಾಣಾನೊ, ಹರಟೆನೋ ಏನಾದ್ರೂ ಸರಿ. ಈ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ನ “ಬ್ಲಾಗು” ಅಂತ ಬರೇಯುವುದೋ “ಬ್ಲೋಗು” ಅಂತ ಬರೇಯುವುದೋ ಎಂಬುದೇ ಓಂದು ತಲೆಬಿಸಿ.

privious posts : ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಓ.ಕೆ.“ಕ್ಷ”“ತ್ರ”ಮತ್ತು“ಜ್ನ”ಯಾಕೆ ? ಹುಚ್ಚು ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಹತ್ತು confusion..!! , ನನ್ನ ಓದುವ ಹುಚ್ಚು, ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರೇ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ !!

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Sanskrit Quotes on Blogging

No, i don’t have any Sanskrit quotes on blogging.There are couple of Subhashita ( Sanskrit quotes ), which can be applied to blogging also.

 

घटं भित्त्वा पटं छित्वा कुर्याद्वा गार्धभसवनं
एनकेनापि उपायेन प्रसिद्दः पुरुशो भव

Can be read as : ghaTam bhittvaa paTam chittvaa kuryAd vA gArdhabhahsvanam yena kenApi upAyena prasiddhah-purusho bhava.

Translation : if it needs to “break pots in public” or “tear off your clothes” or “bray like a donkey” to get attention, just do it. These or any other way , but Do become Famous!

This a tip for new blogger. I read it everywhere , be unique , different , and “controversial “ to be seen in blogosphear. Being controversial is very effective way to get attention , finally freedom of speech. My tip on this is Don’t create so much contovercy that it will effect your life expectancy.

My tagcloud

I been searching for a good tag cloud generator for a long. None of them appealed me till I found this in WP tagcloud generator in //engitech blog. So here it is.

India photos Personal Culture Photography Society rants Life Travel humour History Faith Religion hobbies Atheism Politics Blogging kannada people Reviews Sanskrit monuments College Education Movies temples hindi women Books halebeedu halebidu language mahabalipuram mamallapuram Science video Food Games music tamil telugu Vegetarianism hampi landscape trekking

Created by WordPress.com Tag Cloud Generator by //engtech

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My celebrity Look-alikes

A cool face recognition service. Feel free to try it sometime. They’ll find some celebrity for you anyway.

This reminds me my graduation, where juniors are supposed to find celebrity look-alikes for their seniors. It was part of personality development (people call it ragging in general spoken language, outside hostel). Nice way to satisfy ego and complexes, isn’t it?

Update: I searched; there are no cartoon characters look-alikes. So those who have complex also can try it. It’s safe.

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My votes : The Indiblog of the Year 2006

Poll is now open for Indian weblog awards in indibloggies. Vote based award system for Indian blogs…

India’s first and very own desi blog awards, the Indibloggies are publicly-chosen awards conferred on bloggers from India and of Indian origin settled elsewhere.

I dint find some of my favorites and my nominations among the finalists (Like seriously sandeep, The Acorn, Meditation Photography etc.) But there weren’t too many surprises.

Poll is open till 20^th Feb, Please go and vote your favorites/ the best.

Some of them were too tough to judge. So I had to vote twice…

I voted these:

The Indiblog of the Year 2006
Recursive Hypocrisy. , DRISTIKONE: Perspective

Best IndiBlog directory/service/clique/network
DesiPundit , Blogbharti

Best Entertainment Indiblog
Ugly, Ugly, Bollywood Fugly , Blogical Conclusion