This page catalogues the changes made to this website in 2008. See the
main catalogue page for more recent changes.
4 Jan 2008
the site was again mentioned on Simon Loekle's "Year Out Wake"
radio program on WBAI; an MP3 recording is available on the
thinkamalinks page
11 Jan 2008
as quite a few of you have noticed, Fweet, for the second
time since its inception, has been inaccessible for an extensive
period of time (almost 24 hours) on Saturday and Sunday, 5-6
January; I would like to apologise to all of you who have come to
depend on it for their daily dose of wakese; it was the result of
a severe server failure at Hostpapa (Fweet's current hosting
service), exacerbated by it being the middle of the weekend;
hopefully, this will prove to be a singular event
added Ryf's "A New Approach to Joyce" to the "Portions of Books"
section of the bibliography page (read by
Harold Ryan)
added one electronic book to the sources
page: (Hunt: India's Outcastes)
added all 29 volumes of The Encyclopædia Britannica in
electronic format to the sources
page
added notes on multi-volume books to the
sources page
25 Jan 2008
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (television)
a bit of useful trivia about what Fweet is really about,
according to Google — if you search for "Finnegans Wake" on
Google, Fweet comes up only around number 19; however, if
you search for "can you please elucidate", Fweet is
way up there at number 1
1 Feb 2008
added a preliminary checklist page in
which to compile a bibliography of Finnegans Wake studies,
accessible from the search engine page;
the data on that page is entirely the work of Harold Ryan (more
people are welcome to join the effort)
8 Feb 2008
added two shorthands to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (forget and remember,
repeat oneself)
a bit of useful trivia about what Fweet is really about,
according to Google — if you search for "Finnegans Wake" on
Google, Fweet comes up only around number 18; however, if
you search for "dutch bil", Fweet is way up there at number
1
15 Feb 2008
added volume 40 of the "James Joyce Quarterly" periodical to the
bibliography page
added volume 41 of the "James Joyce Quarterly" periodical to the
bibliography page
29 Feb 2008
added McCarthy's "Joyce, Family, Finnegans Wake" to the
bibliography page
made a few minor improvements to the search engine algorithm
(hopefully, without breaking anything) to support some non-trivial
search strings (e.g. "genesis 4" or "synopsis: II.3") that have
been mishandled before
changed the title of the results page to include the search string
itself (in addition to the by-now-well-known "Fweets of Fin")
7 Mar 2008
added issues 12-13 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
a bit of useful trivia about what Fweet is really about,
according to Google — if you search for "Finnegans Wake" on
Google, Fweet comes up only around number 17; however, if
you search for "sentences with interminable", Fweet is way
up there at number 3
14 Mar 2008
added O'Rourke's "Joyce's Quotations from Aristotle" to the
bibliography page
added volumes 42-43 of the "James Joyce Quarterly" periodical to
the bibliography page
28 Mar 2008
added issues 14-15 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
4 Apr 2008
added issues 16-18 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
added two shorthands to the "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities on
the search engine page: (ÿ) +
(Pingpong, the bell for Sechseläuten, and concepit de
Saint-Esprit)
11 Apr 2008
added four shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (dime/cash, new/same,
"Flowerpot on a pole", "Teems of times and happy returns, the seim
anew, ordovico or viricordo"), the first and third having been
suggested by Sandy Tropp
added comments about Flock 1.1 to the
four browsers page (briefly, fully
functional)
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (months)
3 May 2008
added a small feature to the search engine to alert you to the
presence of an electronic edition on the
sources page, if you have been searching
for elucidations related to a book having one
9 May 2008
added issue 19 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
Harold Ryan began work on the list of articles for the
checklist page
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (into the letter B)
split the "Diacritics" brevity into two brevities (Diacritics and
Symbols) on the search engine page
added two shorthands to the "Symbols" brevity on the
search engine page: (right arrow, any
Greek letter)
added the range of contents of each volume of the
Encyclopædia Britannica to the
sources page
improved the algorithm for searching multi-word strings, resulting
in faster searches under default conditions (although it is still
somewhat slower than searching for single-word strings)
23 May 2008
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-B)
changed the search algorithm to include caching of common searches
(page shorthands, most content shorthands) in order to speed them
up considerably
30 May 2008
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-C)
added a "Range" location shorthand to the
search engine page, which allows one to
search for elucidations for a range of pages and lines of
Finnegans Wake (i.e. from a given page-dot-line to a later
page-dot-line)
6 Jun 2008
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-F)
optimised the search algorithm for many location shorthands in
order to speed them up considerably
added some more searches to the caching mechanism (additional
content shorthands, a few commonly-searched freetext strings)
13 Jun 2008
added issue 20 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (create)
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-G
and began H)
added Crispi & Slote's "How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake"
to the bibliography page
following on an elucidation contributed by Judd Staley, added one
shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (And They Put/Piled
Him Behind in/on the Fire/Pyre/Oasthouse/Outhouse); anyone who can
clarify the "basic" form of this motif, please contact me
added comments about Firefox 3.0 to the
four browsers page (briefly, fully
functional)
27 Jun 2008
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (New Ireland)
4 Jul 2008
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-J)
added one shorthand to the "Classics" brevity on the
search engine page: (Father Finn)
11 Jul 2008
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-L)
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (reds)
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-N)
added three shorthands to the "Books", "Classics" and "Clusters"
brevities on the search engine page:
(Connelly) + (Thousand Nights and a Night) + (days)
25 Jul 2008
sometime in the upcoming week (probably around the 30th), the
company hosting Fweet is planning to upgrade the software
running on their servers; this may cause some as-yet-unknown
disruption in the smooth running of Fweet, which I will
try to minimise as much as possible
added four shorthands to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Gomme & Sharp,
Hall, Kramer & Sprenger, Waite)
1 Aug 2008
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of articles for the
checklist page (completed letters A-R)
added issue 21 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
added two electronic books to the sources
page: (Commelin, Sainéan)
the server software upgrade mentioned last week seems to have
passed without any noticeable disruption
8 Aug 2008
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (dances)
15 Aug 2008
Harold Ryan completed the list of articles for the
checklist page (please consider reviewing
the list and suggesting additions and corrections)
added one shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Up, guards, and at
them!)
added one shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Butt/Taff)
29 Aug 2008
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (drunk)
5 Sep 2008
crossed the 79,000-elucidation mark
Harold Ryan began work on the list of portions of books for the
checklist page
following on an elucidation contributed by Judd Staley, added one
shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Grace before/after
fish)
added comments about Chrome 0.2 to the
four browsers page
12 Sep 2008
added "The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo: Notebook VI.B.33"
to the bibliography page
added the "VI.B.33" shorthand to the "Notebooks" brevity on the
search engine page
slightly modified the search program to display an "empty"
elucidation on any line for which there are currently no actual
elucidations
Harold Ryan continued work on the list of chapters and portions of
books for the checklist page
added one shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (By the Magazine
Wall, zinzin, zinzin)
26 Sep 2008
added three shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Masters) +
(Text of the Letter (all motifs), Ppt)
for the first time since the site's inauguration, I am taking a
long vacation (a one-month trip to China); I will be back in
November; hopefully the site will continue working as usual during
my absence
8 Oct 2008
the site is three years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
12 Oct 2008
the site is three years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 139,000 searches run
I wish to believe that the site is now stable enough and useful
enough for me to devote less time to it; starting November, I shall
thus move from weekly updates to fortnightly ones (and send out
"monthly" newsletters only once every other month)
7 Nov 2008
added some more searches to the caching mechanism (non-shorthand
page numbers)
added Reisman's article on Fulfulde and Hausa in
Finnegans Wake to the bibliography
page
changed the name of a brevity on the
search engine page from the horrible
"Mundanes" to the slightly-better "Folk Culture"
5 Dec 2008
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (lowness)
with the appearance of the impressive
James Joyce Checklist website, the work on Fweet's
modest checklist page has understandably
come to an end; the page will remain available for those who would
wish to consult it
20 Dec 2008
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (quays in Dublin)