Friday, April 25, 2008 Esperanto Resources

Kool Update: I just received an email from i-espero.info, and guess what, the DVD is back! =) It's available again on their website for download, and this time it's 1 self-extracting package [making lifes easeir]. They also have some other neat collections to download, including an Esperanto resource CD and a very nice book collection. They torrents are also seeded again, so do check them out: Esperanto CD [Lingua Incognita] , Esperanto Books .

A while ago, while digging for useful resources to help me improve my Esperanto skills, I came across i-espero.info. It's a very useful website containing all sorts of interesting articles and resources in Esperanto. One of the very cool items I found on their website was this Esperanto Elektronike DVD, which is a collection of cources, vidoes, esperanto wiki, books, music, and everything you might ever need for practicing Esperanto. They were offering the DVD content as free download which was fantastic. Now the problem is that they no longer have the option of downloading the package from their website, mainly because of the huge size of it I would guess. They are distributing the package now through torrents, but the problem is that this torrent is never really seeded nowadays. The other problem is that although the package is not thaaaaaaat huge [something more than 2GBs], but the number of files in it is completely insane. There are too many small information pages and such included. The total number of files is something more than a million. So even if somebody does download it, it's a pain to unzip and manage on one's hard drive. Since the content of the DVD is pretty much organized in some sort of an offline website, I figured it would be better for everyone, including myself and anyone else who might want to use this resources but not really be able or willing to download and manage them, if I just put the whole thing online. So now if you go to Esperanto.Aasemoon.com, you can access the unzipped version of the package as a sort of a website. Pain to upload it this way [as I couldn't unzip 7z on my host, and re-zipping was out of the question], but now it's pretty simple to use. So if you're into learning Esperanto, check it out! =)

Sunday, May 14, 2006 Duh!

Something's terribly wrong with me today! I've been debugging the simplest mere extension circuit for hours now and I still can't get it to work! All bloody analog...nothing fancy. Now I have a blown up op-amp & 2 burnt finger tips, and after looking around for God knows how long I just realized that I have a reversed zener-d and for some reason I just couldn't see it. Golly...I'm quite sure there are a few more of "that" type of problems laying around staring at me right now. I should probably leave it for now....at least for a few hours.
As for World Cup frenzy....well I'm still pretty ticked off over Iran's pathetic [for one kind word] performance in the game vs. Mexico. I've received all sorts of lectures on why things happened the way they happened and why this was to be expected....not like they make me feel any better. England's team however has so far done well....& my fave match so far was the Ghana vs. Italy game. One hell of a game that one.
And as for my Greek language studies....it's going fine, thanks for asking! :) I mean it's going as fine as it can possibly go given the conditions! It's funny how everything tends to sound 180˚ different than what I would expect according to the alphabet basics. My search for "living resources" is still "on going"...... On the plus side, teaching Persian to my German friend is going pretty smooth.
Now only if I could figure how this thing is supposed to sound like......:P

Friday, December 23, 2005 Self-Aware Robot / Greek In Progress

I) I got this pretty kool article yesterday in my RSS reader...it'z from Robots.net. Apparently there'z this new robot that can tell the difference between a mirror image of itself, and another robot looking exactly like it. It is said that this breakthrough can lead to creation of robots that are capable of emotion. Interesting eh? Somehow I can't stop thinking about this....

II) Last night I started up on Greek grammar. [So far I know the alphabet, I've developed an understanding of the pronunciations and how things are supposed to sound like, and I know a bunch of words and short sentences.] U know what's interesting? The grammar actually seems to be not so difficult. Then again this could be only the beginning.....
I'm also having so much fun with the Greek vocabulary. I don't know how to put this in words...things "sound nice" in Greek! Also a lot of Greek words seem to have found their way into other languages, including Spanish and Persian. [In case of Persian I still don't quite know which one has found its way into the other, although I've been doing a lot of "history" homework!] As a result, a lot of these new words are not so new to me!

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Ελληνικά [Greek]!

I think I finally got tired of thinking "I really wanna speak this language" every time I listen to a Greek song or hear 2 people speaking Greek. So that'z it, as of now I am officially learning Greek! It definitely is not gonna be easy and it'z gonna take forever and I'm gonna get tortured but it'z worth it. It'z a beautiful language, well developed and deep. Pretty close to Persian from many aspectz too [that is my mother tongue which I'm deeply in luv with].
So if any Greek people happen to read this..."Your help would be greatly appreciated!" :)