Today I’m glad to finally announce the beta launch of one of my small side projects: Khabran

Basically it’s a one-stop easy to use single page where you can go and peruse all the latest Sikh Internet buzz. Right now it’s full of Sikh News and some blogs, but if you have any RSS feed you think would be useful to add, either comment here or shoot me an email and I’ll add it if I agree :)

Check it out, please give me some feedback, don’t get too upset if it breaks every now and again as I add features and fix bugs.

A small note about the advertisements: Basically the story is this – I’m broke. If putting up one small set of adverts can help pay my internet bills, I’m inclined to try it. If you know any other way I can get some meager funds (mostly to pay for food, this and future projects, etc.) please contact me directly: mail@sikhnerd.com

Check out this cool new Sikh project that just publicly launched Panjab Digital Library.
From the press release:

For the first time ever a searchable collection of millions of rare pages, on Sikhs and the region of Panjab has been made available. Panjab Digital Library (PDL) will include texts of manuscripts, books, magazines, newspapers and photographs and will be available to anyone with Internet access at www.panjabdigilib.org. This launch was made possible in part by the Nanakshahi Trust and the Sikh Research Institute.

Panjab Digital Library has been in development since 2003, charged with a mission to select, collect, preserve, digitize and make accessible the accumulated wisdom of Panjab. Texts were included without distinction as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other human condition.

Definitely a cool and worthy project that I’ll be keeping my eye on in the future.