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)
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
14 Jan 2010
added a pervasive link to my new website,
www.an-ovel.com, which
introduces my first novel (although it has absolutely nothing to do
with either James Joyce or Finnegans Wake)
28 Jan 2010
added volume 1 of the "Joyce Studies Annual" periodical to the
bibliography page
11 Feb 2010
added all 15 volumes of The Catholic Encyclopedia in electronic
format to the sources page
25 Feb 2010
added one shorthand to the "Folk Culture" brevity on the
search engine page: (pantomimes)
11 Mar 2010
added two shorthands to the "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities on
the search engine page: (À) +
(Gall/Gael)
25 Mar 2010
added a readings page, offering audio
recordings of portions of Finnegans Wake (currently by
James Joyce (three pages of I.8 and a a page from Ulysses)
and Simon Loekle (chapters I.8, II.3, II.4, and quite a bit
more))
8 Apr 2010
added a page about the
The Trent University Electronic Text,
listing all the currently-known errors in the main electronic
text of Finnegans Wake available out there (more than a
hundred and fifty such errors)
22 Apr 2010
crossed the 81,000-elucidation mark
replaced all 29 PDF files of The Encyclopædia Britannica
on the sources page with somewhat smaller
ones (2.5GB in total instead of 3.9GB)
6 May 2010
after thirty-eight months in which Fweet had been hosted on
the web servers of Hostpapa, it has now moved to those of VPSville,
a move which promises to offer a significantly faster (and more
stable) performance of the search engine, hopefully
20 May 2010
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (units of
measure)
3 Jun 2010
added a tip about dashes and hyphens to the
tips page
added Windows 7 font installation instructions to the
fweet figla font page
17 Jun 2010
added one shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Archdeacon J.F.X.P.
Coppinger)
those of you who are also interested in my debut novel (An
Ovel) might want to know that I have added a new page of reader
reviews to the novel's
website
1 Jul 2010
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (statues in Dublin)
15 Jul 2010
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (early Russian
history)
30 Jul 2010
added one shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (dark/fair)