Kannada

When almost everyone seemed to have thought we were done with podcasts at [:http://sampada.net|Sampada], we've done it again. This time, we have an episode which marks the first of several podcasts about writing Science and Technology in Kannada. There are several new stuff this time.

On a server where we have few slightly useful websites, some "Guruji bot" has been hitting badly for almost a week now. On delving into it a bit, we found that all the other [:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack|DoS] like flood also came from IPs allocated to Guruji.com. Apparently, Guruji is a new "Indian Search Engine" and it is continuing the glorious tradition by labeling itself "beta". The similarity to the you-know-which seems to end there.

Last week I had stumbled upon some hilarious [:http://hpnadig.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/07/12/french-cartoons|French cartoons].

The incorrect characters on the Wikipedia logo [:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/technology/25wikipedia.html|has now made it to the New York Times] as news. There were numerous people wondering about the incorrect characters (easily four of them for Indians), and many had started talking about it on Wiki last year.

Planet Kannada which was at [:http://planet.sampada.net] previously, now has its own domain. Readers can access it now at [:http://www.planetkannada.com]. :) Pass the URL to friends and let all others interested know. It also has a nice new interface now, thanks to all the mails that brought my attention to it. More updates would be added and the pending addition requests would be attended to as soon as possible. Hope you'll all enjoy the aggregation of Kannada, Kannada related blogs.

[:http://mysorepost.wordpress.com/|Rasheed] just called me up to inform that there will be a program telecast tomorrow on Mysore Akashvani (FM 100.6, Mysore) about Kannada on Internet. The program is a live conversation scheduled at around 8.00 AM. Catch it if you're in Mysore.