So what else have I been doing? Well, I've been reading some books, one on Greek constituent structure, and one on web design. Reviews coming soon.

Also, I just released alpha 3 of Thrius, but only to a few people. There is still quite a bit to do still. Will have some screenshots up when it is a little more fully baked.

So in junior high I had a horrible art teacher. I remember one day where she lambasted a drawing I had done. It hurt. I haven't really done a lot of art related stuff since. Well, a couple weeks back I picked up drawing again. At some point I'm going to move on to painting, but for now, drawing is enough. So far I'm pretty happy with a reproduction of a bust of Plato and a few drawings of the Tick :). Maybe I'll post some photos at some point. I need more ways of driving traffic away ;)

Have you used Quizlet? I just started using it yesterday. It's a nice replacement for flash cards. I've been a big user of flash cards in the past for vocabulary especially (who knows how many flashcards I made for Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic). Now I'm trying an online solution. It has the expected flashcard functionality as well as some nice quizzing features. The user interface is pretty responsive as well. You can definitely see where he got all ajaxy. If you're a flash card user, this seems like a pretty good site. And it's free.

So what do I spend all my free tech time on? Well, it was this blog for a while, though most of my coding is elsewhere at the moment.

One of those projects is called "Thrius". That is the codename. I haven't decided what the final name will be yet, but I will let you know as soon as I can. I am not going to say much more at this point about what the product is other than what is on the Lexel Software website. From the website:

The most difficult thing in learning biblical Greek is learning how words in the language change their form to indicate their function, the inflectional system. For verbs especially, the possible forms of any particular verb is staggering, making recognizing these forms very difficult. Most students struggle significantly with this.

Thrius is the codename for a project that started in late 2006. We believe it will be of incredible benefit for students of biblical Greek. It encapsulates in an interactive program a personal tutor for noticing and recognizing the myriad signs that show up in Greek words as they inflect.

 It is a WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) application, and my experiences in that technology thus far has been very positive. More on this project when more can be said. Currently we are in the alpha stage. My day job and general fatigue has slowed me down for the last few weeks, but I'm back on it.

Also, the design of the Lexel website is new. I must say, the old one was uber plain and boring. I have no one to blame but myself, unfortunately. The new one looks a little better, but if anyone has comments, I'd love to hear them.