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It's a 6/6 and was just adding a few bells & whistles to the blog.
Was reading the Shri Sai Satcharita in the daily parayana and was impressed with the Hindi quote at the bottom of one of the pages in Chapter 33:
रमते राम आओजी आओजी, उदियां की गॉनियां लाओजी
Please come, please come, Lord Ram;
please bring sacks of udi.
Please come, please come, Lord Ram;
please bring sacks of udi.
Learned Hindi in the late 1970s only because there was a rumor that Matriculation was being scrapped and we had to pass a third language in the 10th grade exam! The benefits aren't as earth-shaking as Steve Jobs learning calligraphy, but, WTH, knowing another script is always handy.
Anyway, it was quite tricky to get the above script right. Had to visit at least a couple of sites:
as neither of them rendered the entire stuff correctly. Fortunately, Microsoft products display Indic fonts correctly (Firefox disappoints on this, probably my only grouse), as they have a big stake in India. So i used FrontPage for editing and did the necessary cut & paste (slash & burn might be a better description).
The link on the Hindi script was initially pointing to this, but i pinged Alpesh for a more colorful page for the same chapter and he obliged with this. When i visited his page, i saw a cool widget called Odiogo; it was a cinch to add its widget and voice-enable all my blog posts in one fell swoop.
It's true, what the Sadgurus say:
When you help others, you help yourself
[to some good stuff ;-)]
[to some good stuff ;-)]
