We’re in business.

$1.19 at your local Apple app store. (Cheap at twice the price, etc., etc.)

My app is now waiting for review in the app store. Hopefully for not too long.

And I’m waiting for my GST registration so I’m allowed to sell it in Australia (interestingly, this is Apple’s rule, not the ATO’s).

The waiting game begins.

Especially after a system upgrade. A screen shot:

This is incredible technology.

In short, we have tiny barcodes that are legible when the picture is out of focus, exploiting the optical characteristics of most camera lenses. Seriously, the people who came up with this are very clever. Kudos.

But the ‘application scenarios’ they’ve come up with are outrageously lame. ‘Crowd gaming in public spaces‘. Who would do that? It’s like those public billboards that have a stereo jack down the bottom you can plug your headphones into in order to listen to the latest track by some artist. I’ve never seen anyone listening to one, ever.

Wow. In 2-5 years time, some predict you could buy a 1 petabyte hard drive.

That’s a very big disk.

50 petabytes is enough to store ‘the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages.’

And only $750 for a 1 PB drive (I assume it would be ‘PB’, as in GB for Gigabyte, TB for Terabyte). That’s $37,500 for storage of all the written works of humanity. Bargain.

[UPDATE: I mucked up the passage list somehow, so the verse numbers were often missing (the chapters were right though). I've corrected it, so it should work properly now. Get the new passages archive.]

Further to the script I whipped up for daily Bible reading, I’ve generated some more data sets corresponding to the other plans listed on the Bible Gateway. I’ve only done the full year plans, as mucking around with shorter ones wasn’t something I wanted myself, and are tricky to get to fit. If there’s demand, I can make others, or you can copy the syntax and generate your own plans.

To use any one of these, download the archive and replace your current data file with your choice of the following:

• DailyReadingPassages-OTNT.txt: this is the file included in the applescript utility in the previous post. Read through both the Old and New Testaments concurrently.
• DailyReadingPassages-TNKNT.txt: this is a modification of the OT/NT pattern, but the Old Testament progresses according to the Hebrew canonical ordering, not the English ordering (‘Torah‘, the Pentateuch, ‘Nevi’im‘, the Prophets, and ‘Ketuvim‘, the Writings: Tanakh, for short).
• DailyReadingPassages-Beginning.txt: this plan simply starts at the beginning and reads straight through to the end of the Bible (English ordering).
• DailyReadingPassages-Historical.txt: this plan orders the readings according to the events within the passages, arranged in chronological order from creation onwards. I’m not sure how the dating was done (there’s lots of places where dates are contested, or unknown), so maybe take this with a grain of salt at points.
• DailyReadingPassages-Chronological.txt: finally, this plan is arranged by date of composition. Again, I don’t know the reasoning behind some of the decisions; I’m assuming a conservative set of dates apply.

Enjoy.

And get reading.

[image credit: flickr:Steve Keys]