Check your symptoms here. I was tested positive.

in here via pradeep

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.

Dear Wikipedia , in case you planned to repair your globe , change Kannada “Wi” too. Also just turn your zig saw puzzle , you might get more
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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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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:

And my reader:

By the way, did you know this feature of wordpress.com?

If you are editing a post, just hit Alt+shift+v (for firefox), you’ll get advanced editor. For internet explorer it should be either Alt+v or shift+v , try it I am not sure.

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

tested via GreatWallofChaina

FAQs

Who is censoring?

The Chinese government has a tradition of keeping its watchful eye on all media. Since the rapid growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990s they have constantly invented new ways of censorship to control the world’s most democratic medium, the Internet, as well. Not everything on the Internet, readily available elsewhere, can be accessed from within China.

Who is censoring?

It is estimated that some 30,000 Chinese civil servants are monitoring Internet traffic and blocking content that is deemed undesirable. Typing in sensitive keywords such as ‘democracy’, ‘Falun Gong’ or ‘porno’ in a search engine results in an error message. Websites of a sensitive nature are being blocked. Internet service providers also (self)censor, as do individuals: many people do not express their real thoughts because they know these will be censored anyway.

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`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 .

ಅಮೇರಿಕಾದ ಗೆಳೆಯನೊಬ್ಬ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಭಾಷೆಗಳ web2.0 site ಶುರು ಮಾಡ್ತೀನಿ ಅಂದಿದ್ದ. ಅಲ್ಲೇ ಬರೆದು, save ಮಾಡಿ , ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದಲೇ ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗೆ ಕಳಿಸೊದು , posting ಏಶ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿರೋತ್ತೆ ಅಲ್ವಾ. ನೋಡ್ಬೇಕು ಹೇಗಿರುತ್ತೆ ಅಂತ.

“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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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.

The second one I don’t remember completely, please update it if you happen to know it.

उष्ट्रानां विवाहेशु गीतो गायंति गार्धभानि
परस्परं प्रशंसयंते , अहो रूपं अहो ध्वनि

(updated by kaushik’s comment )

Can be read as : Ushtranam vivaheshu gito gayanti gardhabani. Parasparam prashansayante, aho rupam, aho dhvani !!!!

Translation : Its Camel’s wedding ceremony and Donkeys are singing. They appreciate each other ” wow.. how melodious!!!!! ” and “wow… how beautiful !!!!” !!

Read one more nice post to make fun of us ( bloggers )

via pradeep

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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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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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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

Best Group/Community IndiBlog
Indian Muslims , The Great Indian Mutiny

Most Humorous IndiBlog
.pOINT_bLANK: Cartoons, India ,Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind

Best New IndiBlog
Blogbharti

Best Indi Photoblog
The shad king

Best Indi Podcast
The Kamla Bhatt Show

Best Sports Indiblog
Pavilion Seat , Critics Corner

Best Topical IndiBlog
Atanu Dey on India’s Development , Reality Check India

Some of the categories are very new to me, never read them so far.

Best Designed Indiblog, Best Humanities Indiblog, Best Science/Technology Indiblog, Best Indic Blogs.

I am least interested in judging which Food IndiBlog is the best. So no votes for any of them. I have my diet defined, strictly junk food

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WordPress.com themes are gorgeous, but they just don’t behave the way how an administrator wants it. I had to change my theme again, since all my sidebar widgets used to and sit at the bottom of the page. Unfortunately user had to scroll through the sidebar (which apparently is lengthy) till the end of the pages just to comment. This is a typical problem with most of the wordpress.com themes which are offered. I spend lot of time adjusting theme and also reading through wordpress.com forums. If there is a solution for this, please post a comment here.

So now I am now settled with a third favorite theme in wordpress.com, which luckily offered custom image header. Hey wait a minute here I am small time photographer here, why not make own header. So some of my photos got scissors, and here are finalists.

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I sketched my self using Ultimate Flash Face (through johntp).
Here it is. Try sketch yourself. Don’t be too good; police might want your service.

How do I look … Am I not handsome?? This reminds me a song..

on the telephone line i Am anyone……… I am anything…… I want to be……. I could be a super model…… or Norman mailer And you wouldnt know the Difference……… Or would you ? – savage garden

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Two pages of Bill Gates scribble pad.

Here is another one…

Create your own here

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ion

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

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ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ
ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗ blogosphear ನಲ್ಲಿ. ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯಬೇಕೆಂದು ಎಲಾ circus ಮಾಡಿ , ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಈ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಸಿಕ್ತು. ಇದು ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ unicode follow ಮಾಡದಿದ್ರೂ ಬರೆಯುವುದು ಸೊಲ್ಪಾ ಸುಲಭ ( ಬರಹ software ಗೆ compare ಮಾಡಿದೆರೆ ). ತೊಂದರೆ ಈನೆಂದರೆ ಸರಿಯಾದ ಶಬ್ದ , ವಾಕ್ಯ ಬರೆಯಬೇಕಾದರೆ preview window ನೋಡದೇ ಬರೆಯುವುದು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇ ಇಲ್ಲ. “ಬರಹ” ದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗೇನಿಲ್ಲ. ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ಕನ್ನಡ ಅಕ್ಷರಗಳಿಗೆ ಒಂದೊಂದು combination of keys, ನೋಡಿದರೆ ಕನ್ನಡ unicode ಗೆ ತುಂಬಾ ಹತ್ತಿರ.

ಅದೆಲ್ಲ ಬಿಡಿ . ನನ್ನ ಹೆಸ್ರು ಬಾಚ್ ಅಂತ college ನಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಗೆಳೆಯರು ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಹೆಸರದು. ಬಾಲ್ಯದಿಂದ ಹತ್ತನೆ ತರಗತಿಯ ತನಕ ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿದ್ರೂ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯುವ ಪ್ರಮೇಯ ಅದರ ನಂತರ ಬಂದಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಓದುವುದಂತೂ ಬಿಡಿ, high school ತನಕ ಏನು ಕಾರಂತ , ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ ಭೈರಪ್ಪ ಅಂತ ಓಡಿದ್ನೋ ಅದೇ ಲಾಭ. ಸಮಯ ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ? ಕಳೆದ ಮೂರು ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಲೂ ಯಾರು ಸಿಕ್ತ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ಯಾವಾಗಲೋ ಬಂದಾಗ ಅಂಗಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ” ಎಷ್ಟು ” ಅಂತ ಕೇಳೋ ಬದಲು ” ಎವಳ” ಅಂತ ಕೇಳ್ತೀನಿ. ಇಂತಹುದೆ ಕಾರಣಗಳಿಗೆ ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಕೆಟ್ಟ ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ , ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಆಂಗ್ಲ ಶಬ್ದಗಳು ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ವ್ಯಾಕ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ.

ಯಾರಾದ್ರೂ ಕನ್ನದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಬಲ್ಲವರು ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದರೆ , ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಒಂದು ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಹಾಕಿ ( ಕೆಳಗೆ comment ನಲ್ಲಿ ) . ಅಕ್ಕ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರು ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ , virtual ಪ್ರಪಂಚದಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಗೆಳೆಯರಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದಲ್ಲ…. !!!
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Hey hi,

Welcome me, I am new to WordPress. I was blogging at some other platform (for two years), under the same blog name. Though I have moved all my posts and comments to this blog already (all my posts which are posted till today in this blog are migrated form previous blog.), some were ignored since they were contextual and relevant only when I wrote them.

About my blog: My blog will be a social commentary blog, I rarely write personal things. Basically i write about India – that’s what I have seen so far. I am a veggie and atheist, so some posts about them also. I like to travel a lot; especially to a place has historic importance – so there will be posts and photos about them also. Movies books and music are other stuffs. I call my blog “me, my scribbles and my ego”

About me: I am Bachodi, yep that’s what my name is – even in real. A 25 year old working in a service industry in India. Likes to write, read and watch listen and travel. I have been blogging since two years for now (at three different URLs), and now finally in wordpress.

There are some words; bloggers just love to keep them as their title (or in URL). I did a small search of those words, most frequently encountered in blogosphear while surfing. I have listed them and found some of them by their appearance in title. if you are searching for a blog name , i will suggest one. ” random reflections of thoughts and musings of a mad geek” or ” rambles and rants of a punk nerd about his life and soul”

life 8543356

thoughts 1980841

random 924913

soul 529667

mad 262727

punk 177197

geek 160369

rant 129803

rambling 80942

nerd 59306

bug 57566

reflection 37139

ramble 33335

musing 24358

Some Web definitions:

Geek: one who eats (computer) bugs for a living.

Nerd: A computer expert by aptitude and not mere training. Usually male, under the age of 35 and socially inept; a person whose tremendous skill with operating or designing computer hardware or software is exceeded only by his passionate love of the technology

Rant: talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

Rambling: tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects

Punk: Punk is a set of social and political beliefs, morals and standards that indicate an absolute rejection of conformity

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