Here are some I've come across:
worldscriptures.org from United Bible Societies and the American Bible Society Library has publication details and some pictures of text.
The Unbound Bible has downloads of texts in a number of languages in Unicode.
The Wikipedia article on Bible Translations doesn't look complete, but has a good list at the bottom of other places to go.
tags: Bible
Many Pies
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Statistics in the wild
I was circulating some internal statistics on vacancies we had and before I know it they appear on our website.
If you're wondering why not many vacancies appear on the listing when so many are mentioned in the new article, its because the listings only have jobs with adverts written for them. Yes, we could do with more people to write adverts...
tags: jobs
If you're wondering why not many vacancies appear on the listing when so many are mentioned in the new article, its because the listings only have jobs with adverts written for them. Yes, we could do with more people to write adverts...
tags: jobs
Friday, September 22, 2006
How your users view a PC
This article is inspired by the Creating Passionate Users blog which I recommend if you support or develop software for people.
How your users view a PC
To you its a fine collection of useful things to accomplish what you want. You have your favourite text editor, a couple of image editors, your IM tools, Skype, your browser, your useful browser plugins and so on.
You musn't forget what your users think of it though. They want to get their work done, but they have to use a PC to do it, and they don't like it. They haven't a clue what its really doing, they don't know why you have to single click in some places and double click in others, they don't really understand the difference between the pictures at the bottom left without writing and those at the bottom in the centre with writing (and those at the bottom on the right without writing too, oh and those in the middle with writing). You probably knew that though, but how can you help?
One good way would be to try a drive a steam train.
It looks a bit like the picture above of how your users view a PC, but try to imagine you had to drive a train with 5 minutes instruction, using all the levers and dials on a train. You would be scared that you might blow something up, after all there's a lot of pressure in that tank. It is scary. That's how the users feel. If they click the wrong button it's going to lose their work, or they are going to break something and then IT will be cross with them. So have patience, go easy on them - they're scared.
Photo credits:
http://flickr.com/photos/oxborrow/
http://flickr.com/photos/geishaboy500/
http://flickr.com/photos/bstrong
tags: user support
passionate users
How you view your PC
How your users view a PC
To you its a fine collection of useful things to accomplish what you want. You have your favourite text editor, a couple of image editors, your IM tools, Skype, your browser, your useful browser plugins and so on.
You musn't forget what your users think of it though. They want to get their work done, but they have to use a PC to do it, and they don't like it. They haven't a clue what its really doing, they don't know why you have to single click in some places and double click in others, they don't really understand the difference between the pictures at the bottom left without writing and those at the bottom in the centre with writing (and those at the bottom on the right without writing too, oh and those in the middle with writing). You probably knew that though, but how can you help?
One good way would be to try a drive a steam train.
It looks a bit like the picture above of how your users view a PC, but try to imagine you had to drive a train with 5 minutes instruction, using all the levers and dials on a train. You would be scared that you might blow something up, after all there's a lot of pressure in that tank. It is scary. That's how the users feel. If they click the wrong button it's going to lose their work, or they are going to break something and then IT will be cross with them. So have patience, go easy on them - they're scared.Photo credits:
http://flickr.com/photos/oxborrow/
http://flickr.com/photos/geishaboy500/
http://flickr.com/photos/bstrong
tags: user support
passionate users
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Cliff Richard's Favourite Verse
Philippians 4:13
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
According to our Words for Life magazine.
tags: Bible
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
According to our Words for Life magazine.
tags: Bible
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Internationalisation and localisation
My recent need to research Unicode has sent me to investigate Internationalisation and localisation. Today I came across wordforge.org which aims to help with Internationalisation and localisation so that minority languages aren't "digitally endangered" as they put it.
tags: i18n
l10n
tags: i18n
l10n
Favourite verse survey has its own URL
The survey I posted about two days ago now has its own URL. So what's your favourite bible verse?
tags: Bible
survey
tags: Bible
survey
Monday, September 18, 2006
What's your favourite Bible verse
We've just put up a new survey on our website to find out people's favourite Bible verse. It uses SurveyPro from Apian, which lets you create, publish (to a server supporting Perl or ASP) and then analyse your survey. It does quite a lot. Feel free to tell us your favourite verse!
tags: Bible
survey
tags: Bible
survey
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