My first post
Well, I created my own blog and it was a whole lot less painful than doing it myself with HTML, MySQL and PHP.
I plan to use it as kind of a journal (among other things) to track my diet and changes in my hearing. Yes you read right. My hearing changes based on my diet. I have a disease called Meniere's disease, and it is not very well understood. Anyway, I will try to see if I can find a pattern in what I eat/how much rest I get and how that affects me.
The other thing I will use it for is ranting about the latest news, my struggles (not the Jihad or the Mein Kampf kind), my software projects and things like that.
Anyway, let's see how this works:
Currently I'm using the time that I have on the bus to work and back to do two things:
1) Read the entire Bible at least once in my life (and make notes with questions and things I find that need to be explained). I want this to be a thorough reading and fairly in depth study.
2) Type up the book "Created To Be His Help Meet" by Debi Pearl so that it might be easier for my wife to translate it into romanian.
For both tasks I'm finding that my 23+ year old TRS-80 Model 100 laptop is the best tool. Both for making notes so I don't have to scribble things on paper while the bus is shaking like crazy and for typing the book. I finally succeded in connecting it to my PC to upload my work to the PC and it works great. It boots up instantly, shuts down instantly, there's no hard drive to crash, and it has enough memory to hold a day's work when it comes to typing up a chapter or two from the book. I'm glad I didn't sell it at the garage sale (actually, I'm glad nobody bought it).
On task #1 I'm currently in the book of Leviticus, ch 13. I just finished ch. 12 and unless someone can explain this properly to me without twisting things around, it looks to me like a very very sexist piece of text.
Task #2 I'm currently typing up Chapter 6. I'm far ahead enough for Georgie to have plenty of text to work with, but I would still like to finish the whole thing. Seems like my main problem is that I've got unfinish-itis. I think it would be good to actually be able to type it all up.
You might ask why are you typing up a printed book?
Because I spent part of my vacation in a quest to learn VB.Net, and as an exercise in VB.NET, I wrote several pieces of software that I hope would be very useful to translators.
#1 A translation tool that allows the user to load a source file (in the source language) to be displayed on one side of the screen, and then it allows the user to type in the translation on the other side. The most useful feature though is the fact that the user can doubleclick on any word on in the source text and the program looks up in a database the word and displays the translation along with expressions that word might be used in. The user can also modify the dictionary entries and add new words. The latest feature I added today was the ability to highlight text in a rich text box. This might sound trivial, but actually it involves creating a new rich text box control that inherits everything from the plain rich text box control and adds functionality.
#2 In order to fill the dictionary I ended up writing a piece of software that looks up words in an online dictionary. I'm not sure how legal this is, but nevertheless, I needed to have at least 10-20 thousand entries in my dictionary, so that was an interesting learning experience using the AxWebBrowser control.
I plan to use it as kind of a journal (among other things) to track my diet and changes in my hearing. Yes you read right. My hearing changes based on my diet. I have a disease called Meniere's disease, and it is not very well understood. Anyway, I will try to see if I can find a pattern in what I eat/how much rest I get and how that affects me.
The other thing I will use it for is ranting about the latest news, my struggles (not the Jihad or the Mein Kampf kind), my software projects and things like that.
Anyway, let's see how this works:
Currently I'm using the time that I have on the bus to work and back to do two things:
1) Read the entire Bible at least once in my life (and make notes with questions and things I find that need to be explained). I want this to be a thorough reading and fairly in depth study.
2) Type up the book "Created To Be His Help Meet" by Debi Pearl so that it might be easier for my wife to translate it into romanian.
For both tasks I'm finding that my 23+ year old TRS-80 Model 100 laptop is the best tool. Both for making notes so I don't have to scribble things on paper while the bus is shaking like crazy and for typing the book. I finally succeded in connecting it to my PC to upload my work to the PC and it works great. It boots up instantly, shuts down instantly, there's no hard drive to crash, and it has enough memory to hold a day's work when it comes to typing up a chapter or two from the book. I'm glad I didn't sell it at the garage sale (actually, I'm glad nobody bought it).
On task #1 I'm currently in the book of Leviticus, ch 13. I just finished ch. 12 and unless someone can explain this properly to me without twisting things around, it looks to me like a very very sexist piece of text.
Task #2 I'm currently typing up Chapter 6. I'm far ahead enough for Georgie to have plenty of text to work with, but I would still like to finish the whole thing. Seems like my main problem is that I've got unfinish-itis. I think it would be good to actually be able to type it all up.
You might ask why are you typing up a printed book?
Because I spent part of my vacation in a quest to learn VB.Net, and as an exercise in VB.NET, I wrote several pieces of software that I hope would be very useful to translators.
#1 A translation tool that allows the user to load a source file (in the source language) to be displayed on one side of the screen, and then it allows the user to type in the translation on the other side. The most useful feature though is the fact that the user can doubleclick on any word on in the source text and the program looks up in a database the word and displays the translation along with expressions that word might be used in. The user can also modify the dictionary entries and add new words. The latest feature I added today was the ability to highlight text in a rich text box. This might sound trivial, but actually it involves creating a new rich text box control that inherits everything from the plain rich text box control and adds functionality.
#2 In order to fill the dictionary I ended up writing a piece of software that looks up words in an online dictionary. I'm not sure how legal this is, but nevertheless, I needed to have at least 10-20 thousand entries in my dictionary, so that was an interesting learning experience using the AxWebBrowser control.
posted by GreenThumb | 2:14 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for commenting on my blog. Really interested to read yours.
Are you a Christian? If not, what prompted you to read the bible and what do you think of it as you read?
As for Leviticus; Jewish society was male dominated. Jesus was a revolutionary in the way that he talked to and about women and children.
Thanks KT.
yes I am a Christian. I am reading the Bible mainly because although I know the Bible pretty well, I have never read it in its entirety. To some degree, I want to understand and make sense of some of the things in there that don't make sense. I'm trying to read with an open mind (but to open enough for my brains to fall out). My main premise is that if it is truly inspired by God, then it should be 100% true, and people shouldn't have to twist things around trying to explain why this verse and that verse don't make any sense.
I really dislike it when people try too hard to defend the Bible. If it is credible, then it needs to defend itself.
About Leviticus... yes, I know Jewish society was male dominated, BUT Lev. 12 is not what jewish society is saying, according to the Bible, God said those words Himself, so my question is "Do we have a "less sexist" God since Jesus? and Wouldn't an omniscient God know the whole time that being sexist is just plain wrong?" So no matter what the Jews did, one would expect God to know better.
Maybe I'm beginning to sound like an atheist, but really I have questions, and I don't want to accept answers that are just not good enough.
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