From my diary

This evening I started work on the homilies of Eusebius of Emesa. Homily 1, De Arbitrio, is 31 pages of Latin in Buytaert’s critical edition – the only edition. I pulled these into Finereader, and ran the Latin recognition on them. Then started going through them, shrinking the default rectangles for text recognition to exclude line numbers and apparatus. I did 15 pages before I had to break off. On Monday I’ll do the rest, make whatever minor corrections are needed, and upload it here. Then I’ll run it through some kind of machine translation and see what it’s about. Then we shall see whether it’s interesting. Yesterday I was waiting for a webpage to load. Which was interminable. This has happened a lot lately. So I decided to find out just what it was doing. First I ran a complete scan of the system using Kaspersky. After many hours this found nothing much. It did find an embedded KAK virus in 4 very old emails. This was a scripting language virus, in VB script, run when you viewed…