30 April 2009
Wednesday night I attempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04, and the update did not succeed. My Linux partition thus became inaccessible from Linux, so the next day I installed Ext2fsd so I could access my files from Windows Vista. Later that day I finally got around to installing the beta version of Windows 7 on [...]
29 April 2009
In my last post I talked about how painstaking it is to copy a text even with the help of computers. It is even more interesting, however, to look at ancient manuscripts of the New Testament. The oldest extant Bible, called Codex Sinaiticus because of its former location at St Catherine monastery on Mt Sinai, [...]
28 April 2009
Last September I typeset the original preface to the King James Version of the Bible, called ‘The Translators to the Reader’. I think it’s worth reading: it gives insight on the minds of the translators. (It also directly attacks some ideas held by proponents that the KJV should be exclusively used.) When I was preparing [...]
25 April 2009
I just read an article in The Wall Street Journal about the small town of Tuscarora, Nevada. I mean really small town—there are only thirteen residents there. (It began as a gold-mining town; by 1878 around 5000 people lived there, but since 1900, when the ore was exhausted, the population has dwindled.) The town especially [...]
20 April 2009
The Wall Street Journal had an article on the Comic Sans typeface. Many people like this font, but many others hate it—so much, in fact, that there is a website devoted to eradicating it. Mr Connare, the designer of the font, had this to say: “If you love it, you don’t know much about typography. [...]
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