Kannada

After a long time, we managed to squeeze in another [:http://sampada.net/podcasts|podcast on Sampada]. There's a long list of TODO, though, on Sampada with some basic features (such as XML for the podcasts) not working all that fine. But the good thing is, we've caught renown Kannada poet Nisar Ahmed talking on some of the most interesting and contemporary issues making the podcast even more interesting this time.

Dr. Rajkumar's [:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSA4n3kMo|this particular song] from an old film [:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSA4n3kMo|has gathered] lots of peevish comments from people who conspicuously are non-Kannadigas.

[:http://fedora.redhat.com/|Fedora 6] has a new Kannada Unicode (Opentype) font released with the distribution. The font seems to be Kannada the counterpart of Lohit series of fonts for Indian languages.

[:http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4…|Edward Chernenko] of [:http://ru.wikipedia.org/|Russian Wikipedia] has put across [:http://tools.wikimedia.de/~edwardspec/cgi-bin/top100.cgi?uselang=kn|this very nice tool] that counts the hits that various language Wikipedias receive (Javascript snippet needs to be inserted on wiki to get it started, though). For many months now, Wikimedia has not been keeping page hit statistics on Wikipedia project since they add up to the load on the servers.

Thanks largely to [:http://manadamaatu.blogspot.com/|Manohar], [:http://kn.wikisource.org|Wikisource Kannada] is now a very active project and recently got its own domain, too. Visit the project and [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CP|contribute], take part. Don't let the initial Main page template scare you.

If I haven't yet pulled your attention towards it, let me do it now. [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/|Kannada Wikipedia] now has more than [:http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics|2000 articles] in its garner!

"Sir, no class today." - some one rang up from the coaching class I've been attending from just Monday. "Why is that?" "Sir, Dr.