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YAB - Moved again
My blog has moved.. again. currently it is here: http://arrbee.wordpress.com. This is a request to the planet admins of the planets where the earlier blog was syndicated, to please update the feed to the following:
http://arrbee.wordpress.com/tag/planetarium/feed/(This has already been updated for the Fedora Planet ( Read more... ) -
The lost cities
Warning: Very long post, bit heavy with personal rants and may not be interesting for planet readers
I had read this blog post by Shobha De sometime before my planned trip to Guwahati and Shillong.
She writes:
There is very little pink left in the Pink City, which now resembles an ugly, impersonal,concrete urbanscape, devoid of any character or ( Read more... ) -
Dozen...
Its that time of the year again when frantic efforts are underway for yet another Fedora release. Version 12, code named Constantine. Due to a turn of events, this time I got to be part of quite a few intricate processes - involving schedules, process changes and some amount of coordination. All for the Fedora Localization Project of course. As per ( Read more... ) -
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If I had the means, at this moment with a really heavy cluebat in hand I would have been looking for the person who was responsible for sending in McCullum to bat along with Gayle in the Superover yesterday and then choosing Mendis to bowl. C'mon guys, I am not so enlightened about the techniques of the game but is'nt it common sense to choose the ( Read more... ) -
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Last night my dad called up to narrate a pretty disturbing incident. A senior lawyer colleague of his (an elderly gentleman of 80) was travelling between Kolkata and New Delhi for a case hearing, by Indigo Airlines. While boarding the flight, he managed to trip at the top of the stairs and stumbled inside the plane. A few bruises and cuts resulted ( Read more... ) -
The Short(cut) story
The following is a mail written long time ago justifying the usage of the English shortcut keys for localized Bengali applications.
Hi everyone,
Deepayan Sarkar wrote ( Read more... ) -
Incidents of the day
WTF incident of the day
Ok.. so the following incident happened this evening.
I went to this computer peripheral shop, called Rainbow Peripherals in Behala market with my cousin to get a new keyboard for his computer. Since I had a few minutes to kill I thought of having a general conversation with one of the two guys manning the shop. Rough ( Read more... ) -
Resurfacing with a tag
First up.. Wishes for a Happy Sankranti, Pongal, Lohri, Bhogali Bihu and all the nice things that are being celebrated today. I was up till nearly midnight last night trying my hand at making "pithe" (পিঠে). Nothing fancy, just the commong "churi-pithe" (চুড়ি পিঠে) that looks similar to "samosas", albeit flatter. Its called "Karanji" in Maharashtra ( Read more... ) -
Eight annas....
Looks like the Unicode Chart for Bengali does not contain the symbol for Bengali 8 annas (half a rupee).
The following 3 in this particular series for currency calculation are however available:
4 anna (quarter rupee) = U09F7 (Described as "BENGALI CURRENCY NUMERATOR FOUR")
12 anna (three quarter of a rupee) = U09F8 (Described as "BENGALI ( Read more... )
