This page catalogues the changes made to this website in 2009. See the
main catalogue page for more recent changes.
2 Jan 2009
added MP3 recordings of Simon Loekle's two-part "Year Out Wake"
radio program to the thinkamalinks page
(warning: the first part contains a new high in the category of
"embarrassing praise" for Fweet)
16 Jan 2009
following on a suggestion by Sandy Tropp, added one shorthand to
the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine
page: (white hat)
following on a request from Oscar Ackerman, added to the bottom of
the results page, when searching for a given page of
Finnegans Wake, links to the previous and to the next page
(supplementing those already available at the top), in order to
"make it more natural to read the book forwards"
added Eco's "Mouse or Rat?" to the "Portions of Books" section of
the bibliography page
added some more searches to the caching mechanism (synopsis
subunits)
following on a suggestion by Judd Staley, added one shorthand to
the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (amens)
added volume 44 of the "James Joyce Quarterly" periodical to
the bibliography page
added one electronic book to the sources
page: (Haliday)
13 Feb 2009
added six shorthands to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Apocryphal New
Testament, Boulenger & Thérive, Crawford (x2),
FitzGerald, Schuré (1st))
added six electronic books to the sources
page: (Apocryphal New Testament, Crawford (x2), FitzGerald, Lamy,
Schuré)
27 Feb 2009
added issue 8 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added one shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Fox Goodman)
13 Mar 2009
added issue 22 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
added issue 23 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
3 Apr 2009
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (as this is)
24 Apr 2009
Alex Gregoire began scanning and OCRing the printed text of
Finnegans Wake in order to compare it to the electronic text
that Fweet has been using (which is based on the Trent
University electronic text); he has completed chapters 1-2,
resulting in a total of 13 errors being corrected, errors that have
been lurking in the electronic text for almost two decades; if you
wish to be informed of all the errors that have been found and
corrected (e.g. so as to fix your own electronic copy), send me an
email (I will send the list when all seventeen chapters are done)
added one electronic book to the
sources page: (Rothschild)
8 May 2009
added issues 24-26 of the "The Analyst" periodical to the
bibliography page
22 May 2009
optimised the search algorithm for range shorthands in order to
speed them up considerably
5 Jun 2009
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (he was)
19 Jun 2009
moved the changes for the years 2005-2007 into their own separate
pages, in order to decrease the size of the
main catalogue page
3 Jul 2009
following on a suggestion by Andrew Heathwaite, added a feature
that allows one to search for a random page of
Finnegans Wake by typing "0" in the "Page" text-box on the
search engine page
17 Jul 2009
following on a suggestion by Andrew Heathwaite, added a feature
that allows one to search for a random line of
Finnegans Wake by typing "0" in both "Line" text-boxes on
the search engine page
31 Jul 2009
following on a suggestion by Sandy Tropp, added one shorthand to
the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (well)
added some more searches to the caching mechanism (chapter
shorthands)
slightly modified the J ("Mirror Issy") siglum of the Fweet Figla
font to make it slightly less close to the I ("Issy") siglum, when
they are displayed alongside each other; if you have already
installed the font, you may want to install it again from the
fweet figla font page
12 Aug 2009
following on a suggestion by Kyle Foley, added one shorthand to
the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Cain/Abel)
2 Sep 2009
added volume 1 of the "The James Joyce Review" periodical to the
bibliography page
11 Sep 2009
added volume 2 of the "The James Joyce Review" periodical to the
bibliography page
25 Sep 2009
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (The Tolka)
added two electronic books to the sources
page: (The Tolka, Meillet & Cohen)
27 Sep 2009
the site is four years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
12 Oct 2009
the site is four years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 223,000 searches run
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Corkery)
moved one shorthand from the "Classics" to the "Books" brevity on
the search engine page: (O. Henry)
added two electronic books to the sources
page: (Corkery, O. Henry)
23 Oct 2009
crossed the 80,000-elucidation mark
6 Nov 2009
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Mordell)
added one electronic book to the sources
page: (Mordell)
19 Nov 2009
added two shorthands to the "Books" and "Diacritics" brevities on
the search engine page: (Chiniquy) +
(long s)
added one electronic book to the sources
page: (Chiniquy)
after four years, Google has raised Fweet's PageRank from
4/10 to 5/10
3 Dec 2009
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Campbell)
added one electronic book to the sources
page: (Campbell)
17 Dec 2009
following on a suggestion by Karl Reisman, added a lengthy
paragraph at the top of the bibliography
page, explaining how one could use "The James Joyce Checklist" to
locate articles that may have served as sources for specific
elucidations (on specific topics) in Fweet's database
added issue 9 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
31 Dec 2009
following on a suggestion by Bill Shockley, added one shorthand to
the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (So and so)
added an MP3 recording of Simon Loekle's "Year Out Wake" radio
program for 2009 (in which FW [403.01–413.26] was read out)
to the thinkamalinks page
drastically reduced the size of the MP3 recordings of the "Year Out
Wake" programs from earlier years found on the
thinkamalinks page, in order to speed
up their downloading
added volume 3 of the "The James Joyce Review" periodical to the
bibliography page