Episode 6: My take on the recent terror attack in Mumbai

This is the sixth episode of my increasingly frequent podcast.

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Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds.

Read more about the episode in this post on my blog and post your comments and/or suggestions if any there.

Episode 5 - Tamil Nadu as described by a western traveller

This is the fifth episode of my infrequent podcast.

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Duration: 14 minutes 02 seconds.

Read more about the episode in this post on my blog and post your comments and/or suggestions if any there.

Episode 4 - Serendipity & Zemblanity

This is the fourth episode of my infrequent podcast.

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Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds.

Read more about the episode in this post on my blog and post your comments/suggestions if any there.

Pk's attempt at blogging in Tamil !!

Pk's original post is here.

This is what it says in English:

Hi Vijay,

I always wanted to stay in the United States. Until a few years ago when my pastor visited India. When he did, I became fascinated with the country after I interviewed him for our denominations national magazine.
Now, I really want to visit India. Especially to visit Vijay and his family. The elephants wouldn't hurt.

Blogger's transliteration works well from English to Tamil, but it is intended for writing in Tamil. The author is supposed to type out the sounds of the Tamil words in English and Blogger will attempt to put in the appropriate Tamil letter or word. It doesn't always work well, hence Blogger has provided some edit options, which are really useful with a very helpful Tamil alphabet layout. They've even got the consonant-vowel combination symbols and they go in where they should.

The whole thing obviously goes haywire if the author tries to write an English post using the Tamil alphabet.

I appreciate the effort that Pk put in to write out this short message. The re-transliteration took about half an hour for me. Interesting experience though.

Here is my version of the same message.

ஹாய் விஜய்

ஐ அல்வேய்ஸ் வாண்டேட் டு ஸ்டே இன் தி யுனைடெட் ஸ்டேட்ஸ். அண்டில் எ ஃப்யூ இயர்ஸ் அகோ வெண் மை பாஸ்டர் விசிடெட் இந்தியா. வெண் ஹி டிட் ஐ பிகேம் ஃபெஸ்ஸிநெடெட்வித் தி கண்டறி ஆஃப்டர் ஐ இண்டர்வ்யுட் ஹிம் ஃபார் அவர் டினாமிநெஷன்ஸ் நேஷனல் மெகஜீன்.

நவ் ஐ ரியல்லி வான்ட் டு விசிட் இந்தியா. எஸ்பேஷல்லி டு விசிட் விஜய் அன்ட் ஹிஸ் ஃபெமிலி. தி எலிஃபண்ட்ஸ் வுட் நாட் ஹர்ட்.

And Pk, you're welcome to come visit us anytime :)

Episode 3: Love & Marriage At The End Of The 20th Century.

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Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds.

This is supposed to have been a Valentine's day special. I'm posting it a few days late.

It's a personal (autobiographical) story and it's quite long, nearly 20 minutes. You don't really have to listen. But if you do, you'll probably be amused.

I think all the links and photos that make this an "enhanced podcast" will only work if the episode is heard in iTunes as it is exported as an MPEG4 audio file. I'm going to risk uploading the rather large MPEG4 file after the road test that was done by Moof. Many thanks to her.

The file plays on Firefox 2 and all the pictures and the links work. If any of you have problems listening to the audio file on any other browser, I would suggest downloading the file or subscribing through iTunes (see the sidebar). It's a large file, about 18 MB, so wait for it to load completely before attempting to download.

This is my first effort in GarageBand and I must say I'm very impressed at the ease with which this was accomplished.

As always, your comments are welcome.

Episode 2: Accents.

scan man explains (or tries to explain) why he speaks the way he does.

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Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds.

The Inaugural Episode.

This is a cross post of the inaugural episode of my podcast, which was posted in my WordPress blog.

Check out the original post for more details about this episode.