Tonight the randomly selected sentence is

οὐκ ἂν ἀφείην ὁπόσους ἂν ἕλωμεν πρὶν ἂν χρήματα δῶσιν.

Just Thinking

Okay, so upon just looking at the sentence I can see only a few words I know. So depressing! Without looking anything up, here’s my thoughts:

Well *that* was depressing!

Liddel & Scott

Now I’ll look up what I don’t know in my Middle Liddel.

Perseus

The end-all-be-all of finding this stuff: the Perseus Project Word Study Tool.

Putting It Together

οὐκ ἂν ἀφείην ὁπόσους ἂν ἕλωμεν πρὶν ἂν χρήματα δῶσιν.

Not (ἂν) I might have let go as many as (ἂν) we may have taken before (ἂν) possessions they may have given.

I would not have let as many go free as we might have taken until they had given possessions.

I’m not very happy with this sentence. I feel I’ve got the general gist of it (probably some sort of promise), but the details are messed up. Optatives do screwy things like express wishes or intent and this sentence is full of them. Why or why can’t people just use the indicative? So I think the sentence is generally expressing some sort of promise about not letting as many go as they had taken before they (the enemy I presume?) have given them property.

Oh well. The more I do this, the better (and faster) I’ll get.

To allow a plugin for spam modification in my plugin, I need to abstract out a few things:
The comment to be posted is given to an abstract checking function. This checking function in turn calls the plugin’s checking function. (This is like the sfGuard login function which can either run default or turn over login functionality to another function for such things as LDAP login).

The plugin has a few options for how it responds, all of which I should try to allow for:

1. It will set the comment as ham
2. It will set the comment as spam
3. It will run a secondary process to determine the humanity of the poster

After the comments are automatically dealt with, the user may change the results somewhat. The plugin will probably want to report on these changes.

1. User changed spam to ham (incorrectly marked as spam)
2. User changed ham to spam (incorrectly marked as ham)

There are probably three spam filters that I would make use of:

• Akismet
• Typepad AntiSpam
• Mollum

I should focus on these three and make certain that each one of them can be turned off/on with nothing more than changing the app’s config file.

The lack of updates is a combination between laziness last week and complete and utter exhaustion this week. I have a HUGE project due at work that needs to be finished before August 1st. And, right now, even pulling long days I’m not entirely optimistic about reaching that. I’m working hard, so we’ll see.

In the other, slightly related, news I’m attending the Sunstone Symposium this year (gasp!). We’ll see if it’s as crazy/apostate/awesome/spiritual as I’ve heard it described as. I’m sure I’ll have things to say on my blog about it. I say it’s related as if we don’t make this deadline I’m not really certain about my ability to attend.

And that’s about it.

So, yeah, I’ve bit the bullet and started a blog.  The rest of my website currently sucks, but I’ve finally gotten the blog up and running, which I’m very proud of.

Here I will write notes about myself, about the web tech I use, and about all sorts of other things. You are, of course, free to peruse, comment on, and make use of anything here.  These blog posts are, unless otherwise noted, under a Creative Commons License.

As I am both an active Mormon and an armchair historian/theologian many of the posts here will probably go along that route.  You can find all of the available stuff by category in the sidebar to the left (yeah, I know it’s not there yet, but it will be).

Anyways, hope that explains everything.  The main webpage (available through the “Home” and other links above and below) will hopefully have more on them soon.