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How to read Kannada (Indic) on Android

Like I had written earlier you can’t read/write Kannada on an Android phone. I have given this feedback to Google and its also on the bug list. But I am not sure when will Google implement it. The biggest thing I missed is reading Kannada blogs. But then this tip helped me to...

Damn I am 30! 16

Damn I am 30!

Well I am surprised, shocked and in disbelief. How could I turn 30 so fast? What I have done in last 30 best years? What will I do in next 30 years? Which probably is the life I am left with. In last 30 days, I haven’t slept properly. I am the guy...

So its out…. 7

So its out….

Just woke up now. I haven’t even read my mails yet, isn’t it kind of strange? iJanaagraha went live early today morning. Three months of hard-work is out for your eyes. Its no where near completion, we will stabilize and make it a much better system in days to come. Along with my...

Tweet4Blood goes OpenSource 4

Tweet4Blood goes OpenSource

Thanks to people around me Tweet4Blood went Open Source a few days back. The source code is now available on GitHub for anybody to fork and continue development. Last two weeks I have been really busy with IJ.org. I could not deploy the latest version onto tweet4blood.com. I did that today. Now it...

Cup10: Happy Engineer’s Day 1

Cup10: Happy Engineer’s Day

I couldn’t miss talking about Sir MV whose birthday is celebrated as Engineers Day, which is today, Sep 15th. I was so tired, so I talked only about this and hence probably this is the shortest. But we will be back next week. PS: I am a Sir MV fanboy. Cup10: Happy Engineers...

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Parsing and Visualizing Indian Flood Forecast

Flood forecast alerts are provided by Central Water Commission. They have boring maps and tables. Also they don’t provide data in program accessible format. Members of ICTD for asia are working on parsing and storing that data. In the meantime I wanted something to play. I found ScraperWiki (hacker news discussion) which can...