Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Handwriting Font!

Never knew font creation was so easy!

I know some people were glad using keyboards that they would never have to write by hand again. But handwriting fonts give a personal touch. And you wouldn't want to write in somebody else's handwriting font :)
Steps :
  1. On a sheet of paper, Write all the characters that you see on the keyboard. Use a marker( since it has to be thick). The size of your characters should be about the size of a 72 size font
  2. Scan it
  3. Cut images out of each character
  4. Use Font Creator to create your font.
  5. You will have to play with it to get the sizes, distance between characters right.

Here is what I got. You can get the font here :







Sunday, February 25, 2007

A month ago

It was Sankranti. A kid on E-tv was singing 'Kannanchina ee maatali'. One would wonderwhat his real age was! On a nearby news channel, they declared that Aishwarya andAbhishek had got engaged. They were hoping to hear that the Bachchans would have Aish stop acting, or atleast I did. On second thoughts, when had she really started acting?
But I was so glad for other reasons. An evening earlier, on route from Chikmaglur toHassan, the sun set magnificiently, next to the lush green fields making everything near it look beautiful. The music was great, the road was smooth, it was lovely. Shubha's eyes would have looked at me and smiled. Behind the driver, a quote from DVG was put up, making everybody read it again and again:






A few hours before we were at Hiremaglur. The place became famous only after Kannan who is a priest at the Venkateshwara temple there. It was 'maTa maTa madhyanna'. He was the only person in the big temple, with sounds of nothing but the swooshing wind, leaves and incoherent chirps of birds.
Kannan was cleaning the temple himself. We were fortunate to find him, as he travels a lot. Just because of us, he reopened the temple and performed pooja. He is a very pleasant and jovial person to talk to, even more than what we see on TV. He has an indomitable spirit in everything that he does, making people become his fan. He told us the story of Lal bahadur Shastryji's humanity and simplicity even when he was a union minister. He now writes to Samyukta Karnataka. The reasons were obvious for stopping writing for Vijayakarnataka.BTW, have you observed that VK has started to have lot of spelling mistakes!
The entire temple has wonderful quotes on its walls. They are named 'guDi chellida nuDi'. Right before you enter it, a saying goes :








I also like another one of his :











On the way back, maava was showing a 15-acre land which was sold in 1950s for 22.5rupees!

A day before, HirekoLale lake lay amidst the coffee plantations. Her water untouched,except by the wind. Standing on a hut over a radial bridge, it looked as if we weremoving on a boat. A big banyan tree swept on one side with plenty of soft grass andloads of shade. We were very happy to be there. The sun had again set in grandeur on Ratnagiri bore(read it borey). Children and adults would sit on a toy train which would take them round the hillock. A musical fountain would dance in the backdrop of distant mountains.
I loved it!