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Never buy a computer you can’t throw out of the window

This statement by some unknown sage speaks to me right now. 2009 will be engraved in my memory as the Year of the Dud Computers. Six (count them: six) computers have died on me since this time last year. Two desktop machines at work, plus my own desktop at home; and two work laptops, plus [...]

A good start, despite opposition

The Mbuko New Testament (Cameroon)
Though the enemy had other ideas, Richard Gravina and I have made an encouraging start on the Mbuko New Testament.* We were delayed for a week because of my swine flu; and we’ve also been battling a spate of computer problems (see adjacent posts). But after only a couple of weeks [...]

Swine Flu Survivor!

Steve is relieved to have survived swine flu!
It was a short, sharp episode, and meant that the start of my next typesetting project had to be delayed for a week.
But PTL, I’m now back in harness, and making good progress with Richard Gravina on the Mbuko New Testament (see separate post).
A very heartfelt thank you [...]

CHUMBURUNG TYPESETTING FINISHED!

Rejoice with us! And with Keir and Gillian Hansford, whose many years of hard work overseeing this translation in northern Ghana have finally reached completion. On Friday I uploaded the whole Chumburung Bible via the Internet to Wycliffe’s Global Publishing Services in Dallas. (Isn’t technology fantastic? In the bad old days it would have been [...]

The last lap!

Yes, folks, I’m delighted to say that I’m entering the last lap with the Chumburung typesetting. This has been quite a marathon!
My back has been behaving itself, PTL, and I managed to complete the work I needed to do with Keir and Gillian Hansford by the end of July. We finished the last of the [...]

Independence is driving round the block

Steve is glad to say his back is going forward!
Not long ago Keir and Gillian Hansford came to our home to have a face-to-face session on the pictures for the Chumburung Bible.
For months now we’ve been working independently, the Hansfords doing a complete proofread of the scripture text while I’ve been working on the pictures, [...]