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Catamaran

August 20th, 2004 spari Hinduism No comments

It seems the U.S. Navy has adopted ancient Tamil catamaran technology for their high speed ships that can carry large loads with ease. What’s unique about these ships is that they can just slice through water and can maintain stability even in rough waters. These ships built on catamaran technology can cover over 2,500 kms [...]

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Tamil Fonts

August 13th, 2004 spari General Comments off

Unicode Fonts If you find funny looking text on this blog then you probably don’t have unicode Tamil fonts (well not to mention if you don’t know Tamil, it might be funny looking anyway). All tamil text here is in unicode.After trying out different browsers and fonts, I found the best combination (i.e. clean Tamil [...]

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