Weekly Notes 30/2022
It was an exciting week. Many things got done, and it was a reasonably successful week.
Tagged: Kannada
Feb 2021 – Reading Status
The last year 2020, was terrible in terms of reading. I heard a lot of podcasts but didn’t read much. This year’s goal is to read 25 Kannada books minimum; any books I read in English are special. You can track them under the tag #25KA2021 on my social blog. In Jan and Feb, I read five, which is a decent start.
Project – Nammooral techu
Nammooral techu (ನಮ್ಮೂರಲ್ ಟೆಕ್ಕು) is the new project I am involved with. Idea is to translate technology jargons to Kannada, build vocabulary etc. In a way start discussions around it in Kannada. From the about page ಇದು ಟೆಕ್ (ಐಸಿಟಿ, ಡೇಟ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ)ಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪದಗಳನ್ನು ಶಬ್ದಕೋಶಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ. ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ, ಟೆಕ್ ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದದೊಂದಿಗೆ...
Wikimedia Kannada Maps in KDE Marble Desktop Application
For a while I have been using KDE Marble as my desktop map client. The project describes itself as “a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps”. It can do a lot but I use it for my day today work like bookmarking areas, creating KML files etc....
Learn Kannada using Flash Cards
I started Nithya Kannada – ನಿತ್ಯ ಕನ್ನಡ a month back, along with a friend. Nithya Kannada – ನಿತ್ಯ ಕನ್ನಡ is simple and quick learning material to learn Kannada. It’s a collection of audio files. Each audio file is a simple conversation in English and Kannada. It also contains text in English, Kannada Transliterated...
TV Appearance
I appeared on TV9, Public TV and News9 recently. In all three appearances I talked about WannaCry ransomware. There are not many technologists to explain tech on Kannada TV and hence it was important. Of all three I really loved talking to Ranganath on Public TV. The invitation was sudden and so I...
