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Greetings on the occasion of the Republic Day of India!

Let's take pride being a sovereign nation and strive to stand up to the expectations of our republic and fellow countrymen.

Saluting our National Flag and the Republic,

Vande-Mataram,

OSScamp Lucknow is here

First OSScamp at Lucknow is taking place at Babu Banarsi Das Group of Institutions, Lucknow. We expect a huge gathering of Open Source community at Lucknow.

Venue:

Dr.Akhilesh Das Auditorium,

Sector 1, Dr. Akhilesh Das Nagar,

Faizabad Road, Lucknow - 227105

Dates: Mar 26 2011 - Mar 27 2011

My Sessions

1) Drupal Hands On

2) Going Live !!! Building Servers ...

Hey Amit is also coming for few sessions it would be great to see him after a long time.

Register @ http://osscamp.in/event/osscamp-lucknow-1103

UPDATE (28/02/2011): Till yesterday Voice was working only on BSNL EVDO but today it started working on our lease-line based connection as well and whats more now i am also able to add credits to the account which was not possible since last few days. +301 is the number from which you will see incoming calls

UPDATE (30/01/2011): Google Voice was deactivated from my account but today (30th Jan 2011) it is again available i am using a BSNL EVDO based Internet connection and my IP is 117.254.221.163 (dynamic) the location of this IP is in India here is an IP Location Lookup result

UPDATE : Webrupee Module for Drupal is also available

RsThe Symbol for Indian currency was approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010.

This symbol was selected from among five shortlisted symbols and is designed by an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) postgraduate D. Udaya Kumar and since this date the quest of displaying this symbol started. Font incorporating the new symbol was launched same day by Foradian Technologies and is available for free Download.

The next bigger question was How to Display the New Symbol Rs. Online, recently my friend Aman Jain & Meher Ranjan have come up with Web Rupee an API which can do this trick for you here is an howto for the same

How to Use WebRupee API ?

1) Add a stylesheet link in the head section of your webpage:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://webrupee.com/font">

2) Add the following code enclosing your "Rs."

<span class="WebRupee">Rs.</span> 200

OR

I am sure that by now you would have at least seen one domain name which was written in a non-english language but still if you have not seen any such domain the screen shot below would explain the entire story. I would try to explain the mechanism behind these kind of Domain Names in this post