added an MP3 recording of Simon Loekle's "Year Out Wake" radio
program for 2010 (in which FW [413.27–421.14] was read out)
to the readings page
9 Jan 2011
fixed the "comment on me!!" page so that
inadvertently pressing "Enter" no longer prematurely submits the
form
29 Apr 2011
added volume 16 of The Catholic Encyclopedia in electronic format
to the sources page
3 Jun 2011
added one shorthand to the "Diacritics" brevity on the
search engine page: (Â)
16 Jun 2011
added volume 45 of the "James Joyce Quarterly" periodical to the
bibliography page
1 Jul 2011
added the not-so-useful "Sort Alphabetically from Search String"
sorting option to the search engine page,
allowing for results to be sorted alphabetically by the elucidation
text immediately following the search string
added three shorthands to the "Diacritics" brevity on the
search engine page: (E turned, F turned,
and F reversed (the last one is not yet supported by all
browsers))
2 Jul 2011
the exact number of elucidations in the Fweet database is
now available on the home page
13 Jul 2011
added eight shorthands to the "Books" and "Diacritics" brevities on
the search engine page: (Crookshank,
Dupont (x2), Gorce, Le Rouzic, O'Grady, Sabbathier) +
(È)
added three electronic books to the
sources page: (Le Rouzic, O'Grady,
Sabbathier)
29 Jul 2011
added issue 10 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added eight shorthands to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Studies (x2),
Delafosse, Gwynn (x4), O'Conor)
added six electronic books to the
sources page: (Delafosse, Gwynn (x4),
O'Conor)
12 Aug 2011
added Gibson's "Wake Rites" to the
bibliography page
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Macalister's
Temair Breg)
added one electronic book to the sources
page: (Macalister's Temair Breg)
9 Sep 2011
added the "Hide Summary" display option to the
search engine page, which prevents the
search summary paragraph at the top of the search results page from
being displayed
added the "Font Size" numeric option to the
search engine page, which allows one to
select the relative font size of the text on the search results
page (both this and the previous option were suggested by Gary
Yuen and are primarily intended for mobile phones)
23 Sep 2011
added both volumes of Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh's History
of the City of Dublin in electronic format to the
sources page
7 Oct 2011
the site is six years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
12 Oct 2011
the site is six years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 483,000 searches run
21 Oct 2011
added volume 46 of the "James Joyce Quarterly" periodical to the
bibliography page
added Van Hulle's article on Paralipomena to the
bibliography page
4 Nov 2011
added one electronic book to the sources
page: (Czarnowski)
20 Nov 2011
fixed a bug whereby a non-default font size was not remembered when
using the "Next Page", "Previous Page", "Random Page" and "Random
Line" links on the search results page
2 Dec 2011
crossed the 82,000-elucidation mark
16 Dec 2011
added five shorthands to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Balfour,
Bennett, Gilbert (x2), Lawrence)
added five electronic books to the
sources page: (Balfour, Bennett,
Gilbert (x2), Lawrence)
30 Dec 2011
added issue 11 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
31 Dec 2011
rearranged the website's caching system to allow for easier
long-term maintenance
13 Jan 2012
added an MP3 recording of Simon Loekle's reading of FW
[421.15–428.27] (from his 2011 "Year Out Wake" radio
program) to the readings page
moved the changes for the years 2008-2010 into their own separate
pages, in order to decrease the size of the
main catalogue page
10 Feb 2012
added a tip about the new Wordsworth Classics edition of
Finnegans Wake to the tips
page
9 Mar 2012
added Hayman's "A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake" to
the "Portions of Books" section of the
bibliography page
1 Apr 2012
the website was unavailable for three hours (4am to 7am GMT) due
to a power outage in Toronto, Canada (not a hoax)
the website was unavailable for about 24 hours due a serious bug in
the Kloxo (ver. 6.1.12) infrastructure used to manage the
server hosting Fweet
25 Apr 2012
added support for "CSS3 web fonts", allowing people unable to
install the Fweet Figla font on their system (e.g.
iPhone users) to enjoy properly displayed sigla (rather than
*E*, *A*, *VYC*, *IJ* and other such unsightly strings); see the
Fweet Figla page for more details
added a preliminary
Restored Finnegans Wake page, in
which to compile a list of the differences between the "Restored"
Finnegans Wake and the "Classic" Finnegans Wake;
the data on that page is entirely the work of a Fweet user
who wishes to remain anonymous (more people are welcome to join
the effort)
changed all instances of rotated and mirrored E and F letters in
the text and elucidations from images or HTML characters to CSS3
transformed characters
9 Feb 2013
added differences for chapter I.2 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
2 Mar 2013
added differences for chapter I.3 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
6 Apr 2013
added the "Sans Serif" font option to the
search engine page, which allows one to
have a sans serif font used for the text on the search results
page, rather than the default serif (this option was suggested by
Gary Yuen)
added additional sizes to the "Font Size" font option on the
search engine page (400% to 900%)
13 Apr 2013
added differences for chapter I.4 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
3 May 2013
added differences for chapter I.5 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
22 Jun 2013
added differences for chapter I.6 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
added a short and simple URL format to search for a
given page, displaying both text and elucidations:
fweet.org/sim.pl?123 [replace 123 with
any three-digit number between 003 and 628 to search
for that page of Finnegans Wake] (this feature, suggested by
J.B., is specifically intended for tweets and similar
character-limited communication channels)
13 Jul 2013
added differences for chapter I.7 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
added a tip about Fweet's simple URL format (used to search
for a given page or line) to the tips
page
added two shorthands to the "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities on
the search engine page: (č) +
(Gaping Gill)
removed two shorthands from the "Languages" brevity on the
search engine page: (Pan-Slavonic, Old
Church Slavonic), after having replaced all their elucidations
with ones from more appropriate languages, primarily Russian (as
well as Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, etc.)
25 Jul 2013
crossed the 83,000-elucidation mark
added differences for chapter I.8 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
14 Aug 2013
the website was unavailable for about an hour (1pm to 2pm GMT) due
to an unknown reason
7 Sep 2013
added differences for chapter II.1 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
added issues 1–5 of the "James Joyce Online Notes" periodical
to the bibliography page
13 Sep 2013
the site is eight years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
8 Oct 2013
the website was intermittently unavailable for about nine hours (!)
due to an unknown reason
12 Oct 2013
the site is eight years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 783,000 searches run
2 Nov 2013
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Annals of the Four
Masters)
added one multi-volume electronic book to the
sources page: (Annals of the Four
Masters)
21 Nov 2013
added two shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Mardrus) +
(free/shilling)
added MP3 recordings of Simon Loekle's readings of large portions
of FW I.7 and III.2 (from two of his 2013 WBAI radio programs) to
the readings page
moved one shorthand from the "Newspapers" brevity to the "Books"
brevity on the search engine page: (The
Quarterly Review, vol. 238, October 1922)
22 Feb 2014
added differences for chapter II.2 to the
Restored Finnegans Wake page (it
being the work of an anonymous Fweet user)
3 Oct 2014
the site is nine years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
12 Oct 2014
the site is nine years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 913,000 searches run
31 Oct 2014
added two shorthands to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (mathematics, algebra
and geometry) + (church councils)
2 Nov 2014
after more than nine years of maintaining this site, I have decided
to take an unlimited leave of absence to explore other fields of
interest; you are welcome to continue sending comments and
contributions, but do know that it may take me weeks or months or
even years to reply