Weekly Notes 22/2023

I was at the IITM campus the weekend. I met a bunch of students and witnessed some of them graduating. Overall it was a happy experience. I should plan for a more extended visit next time. 

• I have recovered. Work has been good. We have a couple of exciting things ready to go live this month.
• Blogs are like gardens; they have to be maintained. So went through the posts about my travels in Rajasthan in 2007. Converted the posts into WordPress blocks and updated the image URLs to HTTPS. Still have a ton of other posts to update. 
• WordPress is 20 years old this year. It's the platform that I use now. However, I didn't start with it first. I moved to WordPress in 2007. I have been a happy user since then. 
• ಗೌರವ, ನಂಬಿಕೆ, ಮುಕ್ತ ಮಾತುಕಥೆ. ಇವಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಯಾವುದೆ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಉಳಿಯಲ್ಲ. ಅದರಲ್ಲೂ ದಾಂಪತ್ಯ ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇ ಇಲ್ಲ! ಯಾರೊಂದಿಗಾದರೂ ಬದುಕಲು ಬಯಸುವವರಿಗೆ ಇದು ನನ್ನ ಒಂದೇ ಒಂದು ಸಲಹೆ.
• I have met Poorna Chandra Tejasvi several times, mostly to talk and discuss Kannada and digitization-related issues. For some reason, I was talking about kaaDu (forests) and Kranti (revolution). Then he suggested I read his father, Kuvempu. Until then, Kuvempu was a poet and novelist who wrote Ramayana Darshanam, novels like Malegalalli Madumagalu, etc. Only later, I realized what kind of rebel and revolutionary poet he was. I still find inspiring poems once in a while. Here is one such - ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮನಾಯಿ-ಶೂದ್ರಕೋಳಿ