Burmurings

Burmese is coming along well. Yesterday I received two books through interlibrary loan: John Okell's Burmese: An Introduction to the Spoken Language and his First Steps in Burmese (with tapes). They'll be quite helpful. Still haven't come up with a suitable romanization scheme, though. I also began reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish yesterday morning. Found that "la esposa" (wife) becomes "handcuffs" (las esposa) in the plural. I wonder what the etymology is on that one. :)

IAP work is coming along very well. I've been writing the bulk of the software that creates batches of record images for volunteers to extract, and it's almost done (all the pieces will be in place by Friday and then it'll just be testing, bugfixing, and documenting from there). Let me just say that XML is really, really cool. :)