Behdad Esfahbod
My name is pronounced as [beh da:d] [es f@h bo:d]
in IPA ASCII transcription.
It is written in Persian script (well, Arabic script to be honest) as
بهداد اسفهبد.
It is also put in a file
here.
I work for Red Hat and am in love
with the GNOME Project. My long-term goal
since late last century has been making Persian work great in computer
software.
More about me:
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English weblog:
McEs, A Hacker Life, where I write regularly about my
day to day life and my work as a Free Software developer.
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Résumé
(shorter PDF version here).
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Orkut,
Facebook,
Flickr,
LinkedIn,
del.icio.us,
Ohloh,
and
RapLeaf
profiles in case you want to browse my friends, photos, projects, etc.
Some may require login. Browse my
Mugshot
to see what other web services I use.
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ThinkGeek.com
wish list,
if you are a dear friend that wants to surprise me, or you just want to
make my day, because I fixed your favorite bug or implemented your
favorite feature!
Amazon.ca
wish
list,
in case you prefer to do the same thing using books or DVDs.
My PGP key fingerprint is 2277 650A 4E8B DFE4 B7F6 BE41 9FEE 04E5 D353 1115
and the public key is available
here.
I wonder if you find what you are looking for here, so contact me whenever you need.
Contact information is at the end of this page.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
— Harry S Truman
Some stuff:
Persian stuff:
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Download the free Persian Nastaliq font
IranNastaliq.
It's simply gorgeous. Screenshot using Pango here.
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The RiRa Persian Digital Library
project have been completely moved to SourceForge
after three years of hosting in Sharif.
So it should be a lot faster, has got lots of nice touches, and the
development if completely open.
Make sure you subscribe to the RiRa-announce
mailing list to receive (very infrequent) updates about the project.
RiRa is the greatest Persian digital library online. Enjoy, and Happy Norouz!
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I have a new toy for Persian users:
Behdad's Calendar, which supports
multiple-system calendar used in Iran.
The Persian editor is updated too:
Behdad's Editor, and updated again,
with Open and Save functionality now.
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Nazem
by Houshang Moradi-Kermani, an episode of the Majid stories ("ghessehaa-ye majid"),
brought to you by Connie Bobroff, the heroine of
Persian computing for language learners.
Quite a joy to read and refresh your memories!
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I'm maintaining a mirror
of the late Earthreport weblog by
Franny Fallacy.
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Just for the record, my closed Persian blog
The Thin Ice, by Bertrand Elizabeth
which I like to write actively again, but not right now.
And some stuff I worked for Ghasedak are still in
Meltin' Ice, by Bertrand Elizabeth.
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Please consider linking to this important page about Farsi [sic].
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Ghasedak is an online magazine done by Iranian
students in Toronto. I used to be in the editorial board.
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Khaateraat-e Yek Asb,
by Yar-Ali PourMoghaddam. Online version is done by me by
permission. Strongly recommended.
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The Little Prince the
masterpiece by Antoine Saint-Exupery, translated to Persian by
Ahmad Shamlou (also vocal).
Online version is done by me.
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Chris de Burgh's
Spanish Train
translated to Persian by
me is
here.
Some more stuff:
Projects I maintain:
Projects I contribute to regularly:
(and the combinations of all above)
Downloads:
Friends and Family:
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For long I envied my friend's compact name: Leila Zia; her full name fits
in a 8-char login id! Now I figured there is an Asian
actor/writer/I-don't-know of her exact same name. Now that I don't envy.
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My brother Behnam finally put
up a new homepage.
He also maintains esfahbod.info as a
portal to our homepage, blog, and photo pages.
Contact:
Email me to behdad at behdad dot org.
I am typically online on IRC as behdad on irc.freenode.net, irc.gnome.org,
and irc.mozilla.org.
Copyright 1999–2008, Behdad Esfahbod (b)