migrated the website from its previous hosting service (VPSVille) to a new one
(Amazon Lightsail)
26 Aug 2020
after almost five years of dormancy, returned to maintaining Fweet
added the ability for you to support Fweet's future development via recurring donations
(a.k.a. crowdfunding), accessible through "Donate" buttons visibly displayed on the
search engine page, as well as on search result pages
deleted most links (except historical ones) to the now-obsolete-and-mostly-irrelevant
thinkamalinks and browsers pages
rewrote the introduction on the Trent University electronic text page
to reflect the fact that the text is no longer available on the university's website
fixed numerous external links that got broken over my years of absence
17 Sep 2020
following up on elucidations contributed by Andrey Rene, added three shorthands
to the "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (pronouns, yes) + ("Ave, Salve, Vale")
27 Sep 2020
the site is fifteen years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
added forty-eight electronic texts to the sources
page: (Souvenir of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary, The Prophecies of St. Malachy,
Bédier (x2), Blavatsky, Borrow, Boulenger, Bowman, Budge (x2), Bury,
Caufeynon, Chateaubriand, Collins (Joseph), Comyn, Connelly, Crépieux-Jamin,
Crone, Crookshank, Dupont, Fitzpatrick (Samuel), Fleming, Gallois, Gomme, Haldane,
Hardiman, Herold, Holland, Jespersen (2nd), Jones, Joyce (Weston), Kramer, Langdon,
Lewis, Martin, Matharan, Metchnikoff, Millington, Rowntree, Sauvé, Sullivan,
Travers Smith, Trobridge, Verrimst, Waite, Werner (x2), Yeats)
replaced ten electronic texts on the sources page with better
versions (primarily ones in which the text can be searched): (Irish Rivers,
The Catholic Encyclopedia vol. 9, The Quarterly Review, Delafosse, Lamy, Rothschild,
Sabbathier, Sainéan, Schuré, Warburton)
12 Oct 2020
the site is fifteen years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 3.1 million searches run
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added four shorthands
to the "Motifs" and "Diacritics" brevities on the search engine
page: (Bride of the brine, Son of a bitch, lactating male) + (ī)
suppressed the "Comment on Me!" button on the comment on me!
page, as it has been pointed out to me that it could be somewhat confusing (not to mention,
rather pointless)
25 Oct 2020
added two shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Bouhélier) + (Hear, hear!)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Bouhélier)
1 Nov 2020
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added seven shorthands
to the "Books", "Classics" and "Motifs" brevities on the search engine
page: (Ogden & Richards) + (The Mabinogion) + (O'Toole/Becket, "Tom, Dick and Harry",
"Shem, Ham and Japhet", So be it, Fiat-Fuit)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Ogden & Richards)
deleted the "Assyrian" shorthand from the "Languages" brevity on the
search engine page (as its single elucidation [475.02] has
been replaced with a quote from Langdon)
8 Nov 2020
crossed the 85,000-elucidation mark
began a new "People" brevity on the search engine page
changed the subheading of those shorthands previously listed as "People" to "Minor Characters"
in the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine page
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added nine shorthands
to the "Classics", "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the search engine
page: (Dante, Horace (x2), Virgil (x2)) + (Delaney or Delacey) + (Oscar Wilde (x3))
19 Nov 2020
following up on elucidations contributed by Andrew Gibson and others, added six shorthands
to the "Books" and "People" brevities on the search engine
page: (MacDonald, O'Shea, Pilkington) + (Parnell (x3))
moved the "hesitency" shorthand from the "Motifs" brevity to the "People" brevity on the
search engine page, under Parnell
added three electronic texts to the sources page: (MacDonald, O'Shea,
Pilkington)
29 Nov 2020
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol, added six shorthands to the
"People" brevity on the search engine page: (Swift (x6))
moved the "Ppt" shorthand from the "Motifs" brevity to the "People" brevity on the
search engine page, under Swift
16 Dec 2020
added two shorthands to the "People" brevity on the search engine
page: (Saint Patrick (x2))
31 Dec 2020
added eight shorthands to the "Books" and "People" brevities on the search engine
page: (Fournier d'Albe, Haldane (2nd), Mill, Patten, Schiller, Townley) + (Lewis Carroll (x2))
moved the "Lewis Carroll" shorthands from the "Classics" brevity to the "People" brevity on the
search engine page, under Lewis Carroll
added five electronic texts to the sources page: (Haldane (2nd), Mill, Patten,
Schiller, Townley)
4 Jan 2021
began a process of self-review, whereby I intend to go slowly through Fweet's database and review
existing elucidations, primarily in order to delete those that I no longer find convincing, improve those
that need improvement, add new ones where serendipity strikes, and verify the rest
by "slowly", I mean at a rate of about two FW pages a month, hoping — if I am spared —
to complete the task by the time the sun burns out
alongside the aforementioned self-review, I plan to incorporate useful information relating to the page
being reviewed from Hayman's First Draft Version, McHugh's Annotations (4th ed.), Henkes &
Bindervoet's Selected Variants, and Rose & O'Hanlon's James Joyce Digital Archive
finally, I also plan to check Fweet's electronic text of Finnegans Wake for that same page,
to root out any latent typos, by comparing it to other (very faulty) electronic texts
oh, and I don't plan to start on page 3, but rather on page 593, and work my way forwards within a chapter,
but backwards through the chapters
17 Jan 2021
reviewed page 593
added issue 12 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the bibliography page
added nine shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the search engine
page: (Baring-Gould, Heard, Hirn, Mauthner, Morris) + (Persse O'Reilly, Move Up Mick..., Securus iudicat...,
Thalatta! Thalatta!)
added four electronic texts to the sources page: (Baring-Gould, Heard, Mauthner,
Morris)
31 Jan 2021
crossed the 86,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 594
added shorthands for all the VI.A/B/C notebooks to the "Notebooks" brevity on the
search engine page
added ten shorthands to the "Books", "Editorials" and "Motifs" brevities on the search engine
page: (Fitz-Patrick, Foote, Graves, Lloyd) + (elucidations for variants) + (alliteration, Kersse the tailor,
the Norwegian captain, the ship's husband, 5 vowels)
added three electronic texts to the sources page: (Fitz-Patrick, Foote, Graves)
replaced one electronic text on the sources page a with different
edition, that better fits Joyce's notebook entries: (Mauthner volume III)
renamed a shorthand in the "Registers" brevity on the search engine
page, from "United States" to "American"
thanks to the help of Eric Arbiter, added a link from the search engine page
to the Fweetcrowdfunding page, alongside the existing
"Donate" button, for those who, for one reason or another, cannot see the button
14 Feb 2021
reviewed page 595
added issue 13 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the bibliography page
added ten shorthands to the "Books", "Motifs", "Newspapers" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Chervin, Foote & Wheeler, Kennedy-Fraser & Macleod) +
(28-29, 39) + (The Graphic) + (Finn, Diarmuid, Grania, Ossian)
added two electronic texts to the sources page:
(Chervin, Kennedy-Fraser & Macleod)
26 Feb 2021
reviewed page 596
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added eight shorthands to the "Books",
"Classics", "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities on the search engine page:
(Pascal, Pic, Sturlason, Vico) + (Cicero) + (Ō) + (Fee faw fum, stuttering)
added three electronic texts to the sources page:
(Pascal, Pic, Vico)
12 Mar 2021
reviewed page 597
added issue 14 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the bibliography page
added five shorthands to the "Books" and "Languages" brevities on the search engine page:
(Boissonnot, Freud, Selby, Somerville & Ross) + (Old Irish)
added five electronic texts to the sources page:
(Boissonnot, Freud, Macpherson, Selby, Somerville & Ross)
replaced two electronic texts on the sources page with better
versions (ones in which the text can be searched): (Commelin, Hunt)
moved the "Macpherson" shorthand from the "Classics" brevity to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page
deleted the "Old Icelandic" shorthand from the "Languages" brevity on the
search engine page (as its few elucidations have
either been replaced with Old Norse or deleted)
improved the "Sort Alphabetically" algorithm to sort numbers embedded in elucidations (e.g. source book page numbers)
in a proper numeric fashion
29 Mar 2021
reviewed page 598
added four shorthands to the "Books", "Languages" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (O'Brien, Robbins) + (Scottish Gaelic) + (Urbi et Orbi)
added two electronic texts to the sources page:
(O'Brien, Robbins)
10 Apr 2021
crossed the 87,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 599
added issue 15 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the bibliography page
added six shorthands to the "Books" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (One Hundred Merrie..., Bugge, Frazer, Hyde,
McIntyre) + (Giordano Bruno)
added four electronic texts to the sources page:
(Bugge, Frazer, Hyde, McIntyre)
improved the "AND" keyword algorithm to handle overlapping operands better
following up on a report by Walter Heenan, slightly changed the behaviour of the location shorthands (i.e.
line, page, chapter and range shorthands), so that now if you use any of these shorthands with the "Search
in Finnegans Wake Text" option enabled (which does not make much sense and can on rare occasions yield
some confusing results), the option will be silently disabled and the "Show FW Text" option enabled instead,
under the assumption that this is what you were actually trying to achieve
24 Apr 2021
reviewed page 600
added issues 16 and 17 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the bibliography page
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added twelve shorthands
to the "Books", "Classics", "Diacritics" and "Symbols" brevities on the
search engine page: (D'Alton, Mawer, Power, Quiller Couch,
Turner, Worsaae) + (Boucicault (x3)) + (ý) + (eth, thorn)
added six electronic texts to the sources page:
(D'Alton, Mawer, Power, Quiller Couch, Turner, Worsaae)
8 May 2021
reviewed page 601
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the search engine page:
(Graces)
corrected a minor bug in the "Sort Alphabetically from Search String" search option that could
potentially affect result order for elucidations containing beautified shorthands (e.g. book
titles)
21 May 2021
reviewed page 602
added issue 18 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the bibliography page
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the search engine page:
(Downing)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Downing)
5 Jun 2021
crossed the 88,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 603
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added five shorthands to the
"Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the search engine page:
(Boldt) + (432, anagram, backwards, Sinn Féin...)
renamed a shorthand in the "Registers" brevity on the search engine
page, from the cumbersome "Anglo-Irish/Hiberno-English" to the more straightforward, if slightly
less accurate, "Anglo-Irish"
changed the subheading of a couple of shorthands previously listed as "Concepts" to
"Textual Manipulation" in the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine page
19 Jun 2021
reviewed page 604
added nine shorthands to the "Books", "Folk Culture" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Dodd, Fenollosa, O'Hanlon, Roscoe) +
(hymns, prayers) + (tenses, white horse, place person thing)
added four electronic texts to the sources page:
(Dodd, Fenollosa, O'Hanlon, Roscoe)
changed the subheading of the shorthands previously listed as "Concepts" to "Miscellaneous"
in the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine page
30 Jun 2021
reviewed page 605
added a new display option called "Hide Elucidations" (off by default), which allows you to
display only the Finnegans Wake text on the results page, without all those pesky
elucidations (this option has been suggested by Peter Jennings, and by several others over
the years)
added twelve shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Diacritics", "Newspapers" and "Notebooks"
brevities on the search engine page: (The Annals of Ireland, Craigie,
Flammarion, Harrison, Meillet, Renan, Sapper) + (7 Stages of Canonisation) + (ē, ū) +
(unknown newspaper) + (any notebook)
added six electronic texts to the sources page:
(The Annals of Ireland, Craigie, Flammarion, Harrison, Meillet, Renan)
renamed a shorthand in the "Clusters" brevity on the search engine
page, from "7 Canonical Hours" to "8 Canonical Hours"
renamed a shorthand in the "Newspapers" brevity on the search engine
page, from "Leader" to "The Leader"
24 Jul 2021
reviewed page 606
added issues 8–11 of the "James Joyce Online Notes" periodical
to the bibliography page
added three shorthands to the "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Pigs, Verbal Prepositions and Conjunctions) +
(Which we all...)
changed the behaviour of the "Get Following" search option, so that now it will display the
following elucidation even if that elucidation is not on the same FW line
improved the "Sort Alphabetically" algorithm to sort dates embedded in elucidations (e.g.
newspaper issue dates) in a proper calendric fashion
fixed a bug that resulted in the Next/Previous/Random Page links being broken on searches
generated by the sim.pl script (reported by Peter Jennings)
6 Aug 2021
crossed the 89,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 607
added issues 12–15 of the "James Joyce Online Notes" periodical
to the bibliography page
added three shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Ingersoll, Weekley) + (Grand Old Man)
added two electronic texts to the sources page:
(Ingersoll, Weekley)
added tentative dates for the VI.C notebooks in the "Notebooks" brevity on the
search engine page
21 Aug 2021
reviewed page 608
added issue 19 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added eight shorthands
to the "Books", "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevity on the search engine
page: (Clodd, Conder, Creasy, ffrench, Massingham, Vincent) + (Japan) + (Rivering waters of...)
added five electronic texts to the sources page:
(Clodd, Conder, Creasy, ffrench, Vincent)
renamed a shorthand in the "Registers" brevity on the search engine
page, from "Pidgin" to "Chinese Pidgin"
2 Sep 2021
reviewed page 609
added fourteen shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Joyce", "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Fraser-Harris) + (Always) + (Finnegans Wake) +
(FERT, Filou filou, Greek/Roman, Look look, meet/part, O my back, O tell me all...,
Shutter, Tale told of..., While... ...ling) + (Berkeley)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Fraser-Harris)
13 Sep 2021
reviewed page 610
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Trogan)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Trogan)
15 Sep 2021
the site is sixteen years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
19 Sep 2021
crossed the 90,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 611
added five shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Motifs" and "Newspapers" brevities on the
search engine page: (Daumal) + (plants, thing) + (tunc,
island of saints and sages) + (Popular Wireless & Television Times)
3 Oct 2021
reviewed page 612
added issue 20 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
following up on elucidations contributed by Dan Absolon and others,
added four shorthands to the "Books", "Motifs" and "Newspapers" brevities on the
search engine page: (Lévy-Bruhl) + (Honi soit...,
sound/sense) + (Radio News and Short Wave Radio)
rewrote the description of the "Variants" shorthands under the "Editorials" subsection of the
user's manual page, in order to clarify the
difference between the two types of variants
12 Oct 2021
the site is sixteen years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 3.4 million searches run
20 Oct 2021
reviewed page 613
6 Nov 2021
reviewed page 614
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added eight shorthands
to the "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the search engine page:
(bear/bull, Carrying his overcoat..., Collars and Cuffs, fall/rise) +
(Cromwell (x3), William III of Orange)
15 Nov 2021
reviewed page 615
added three shorthands to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Lewis (1926), McCabe, Yonge)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Yonge)
renamed a shorthand in the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine
page, from "Text of the Letter: Reverend" to "Text of the Letter: Revered"
added a page-to-JJA-page translation table for VI.B.25 in the "Notebooks" brevity on the
search engine page
13 Dec 2021
crossed the 91,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 616
added eight shorthands to the "Books", "Classics" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Keane, Lynch, Monahan (x2),
Phillips & Steavenson) + (Wills) + (top/bottom, "holly, ivy, mistletoe")
added five electronic texts to the sources page:
(Keane, Lynch, Monahan (x2), Phillips & Steavenson)
renamed and expanded a shorthand in the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page, from "lactating male" to "mixed gender"
22 Dec 2021
reviewed page 617
added nine shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Motifs" and "Newspapers" brevities
on the search engine page: (Handbook of Ulster Question,
D'Israeli, Wright) + (snakes) + (Magrath, Sully, thumb to nose, Caractacus/Vercingetorix) +
(The Little Review)
added two electronic texts to the sources page:
(D'Israeli, Wright)
1 Jan 2022
reviewed page 618
added issue 21 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine
page: (the cad with the pipe, the cad's wife, Lily is a lady,
"Text of the letter: followed with a fork")
10 Jan 2022
reviewed page 619
added issues 16–17 of the "James Joyce Online Notes" periodical
to the bibliography page
added six shorthands to the "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (soft, three-consonant sentences) +
(head/foot, Picts/Scots, lisping, rhotacism)
30 Jan 2022
reviewed page 620
following up on elucidations contributed by Andrew Gibson, John Hughes and others, added
eleven shorthands to the "Classics", "Clusters", "Diacritics", "Folk Culture", "Joyce" and
"Motifs" brevities on the search engine page:
(Book of Common Prayer) + (Wicklow) + (ž) + (Commedia dell'arte, Punch and Judy) +
(Pomes Penyeach) + (washerwomen, Copenhagen, yes/no, Deathbone..., Grand Old Gardener)
11 Feb 2022
reviewed page 621
added five shorthands to the "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Shaun's belted lamp) + (Tristan, Iseult,
Iseult of Brittany, King Mark)
renamed a shorthand in the "Languages" brevity on the search engine
page, from "Ruthenian" to "Ukrainian"
25 Feb 2022
crossed the 92,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 622
began a new "Places" brevity on the search engine page
added nine shorthands to the "Joyce", "People" and "Places" brevities on the
search engine page: (Maddox) + (Armoricus (Amory) Tristram,
Diarmaid MacMurrough) + (Chapelizod, Howth Head, Lucan, Leixlip, Phoenix Park, Strawberry
Beds)
31 Mar 2022
reviewed page 623
added three shorthands to the "Bible", "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Douay-Rheims) + (The Letter (mentioned)) +
(Grace O'Malley)
16 Apr 2022
reviewed page 624
added four shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Prince) + (Respectable) + (Erin go bragh) +
(Roderick (Rory) O'Connor)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Prince)
deleted the "Low Latin" shorthand from the "Languages" brevity on the
search engine page (as its elucidations have
been merged into plain Latin)
14 May 2022
added nineteen shorthands to the "Clusters", "Motifs", "People" and "Places" brevities on the
search engine page: (So) + (coincidence of contraries, four fifths,
hide/seek, hook/eye, full stop, "Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're...", "I am, I am",
life worth living, not yet, saucy sisters, the four of them, the ghost of a notion,
the haves and the have-nots, X is for, "faith, hope, charity", "Father, Son, Holy Ghost") +
(Nicholas of Cusa) + (Hundred of Manhood)