added issue 18 of the "James Joyce Online Notes" periodical
to the bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities
on the search engine page: (Wilson) + (games) + (Î) +
(up/down)
added one electronic text to the sources page: (Wilson)
4 Apr 2023
reviewed page 561
added three shorthands to the "Clusters", "Motifs" and "Registers" brevities
on the search engine page: (Porter family) +
(7 rainbow/flower girls) + (childish)
27 Apr 2023
reviewed page 562
added six shorthands to the "Books", "Diacritics", "Motifs" and "People" brevities
on the search engine page: (Donehoo, Queyrat) + (Í) +
(Jacob/Esau) + (Brian Boru, the Virgin Mary)
added two electronic texts to the sources page:
(Donehoo, Queyrat)
14 May 2023
reviewed page 563
23 May 2023
reviewed page 564
added two shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Jew/Gentile, panther)
6 Jun 2023
crossed the 95,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 565
added two shorthands to the "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (ŝ) + (hill/hollow)
13 Jul 2023
reviewed page 566
added issue 23 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Books" and "Minor Characters" brevities on the
search engine page: (Carruthers, Gentile, Rochester)
+ (the four's ass)
added sixteen electronic texts to the sources page:
(Handbook of the Ulster Question, Boldt, Carruthers, Cosgrave,
Foote & Wheeler, Fournier d'Albe, Gentile, Hargrave, Hine, Lewis (1st),
Massingham, McCabe, Paget, Perry, Rochester, Spaeth)
18 Jul 2023
following up on a suggestion by Levin Magruder, added a new display checkbox
option on the search engine page, called "Show Context"
(disabled by default), which when enabled, displays a synopsis entry above the
elucidations falling within that entry's page-line range; the purpose of this
feature is to remind a user faced with a given elucidation what narrative context,
as reflected by the current synopsis entry, it is part of
24 Sep 2023
the site is eighteen years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
12 Oct 2023
the site is eighteen years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 4.0 million searches run
added two shorthand to the "Minor Characters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Treacle Tom and Frisky Shorty) +
(Wars of the Roses)
in order to curb spammers' abuse of the comment on me form
(shame on them!), I have disallowed the use of the strings "http://" and "https://"
within the form's message (until now only the former was disallowed); as before, if
you wish to send me information about a website through the form just avoid using
these specific strings
25 Oct 2023
reviewed page 567
added three shorthands to the "Clusters", "Motifs" and "Places" brevities
on the search engine page: (flags) + (Michael/Elcock) +
(Island Bridge)
moved the changes for the year 2022 into their own separate
page, in order to decrease the size of the
main catalogue page
17 Nov 2023
reviewed page 568
added four shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity
on the search engine page: (back/front,
Brutus/Cassius, China/Japan, palindrome)
added a tip to the tips page about how to get
Fweet's database of elucidations and/or its electronic text of
Finnegans Wake in their entirety
rewrote the fweet figla font page, as much of it
has become less relevant over the years (and edited some references to it
on other pages)
29 Nov 2023
reviewed page 569
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity
on the search engine page: (theatre)
10 Dec 2023
crossed the 96,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 570
added one shorthand to the "Motifs" brevity
on the search engine page: (fender)
changed the subheading of the shorthands previously listed as "Items" to "Miscellaneous"
in the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine page
21 Dec 2023
reviewed page 571
added three shorthands to the "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities
on the search engine page: (sad, urination) +
(acronym)
1 Jan 2024
reviewed page 572
6 Jan 2024
reviewed page 573
added two shorthands to the "Clusters" and "Minor Characters" brevities on the
search engine page: (historians) +
(the twelve Sullivans)
15 Jan 2024
reviewed page 574
added six shorthands to the "Clusters" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Doyle, tango-tetigi-pango-pepigi,
trustee, William) + (Guy Fawkes, William Wood)
1 Feb 2024
reviewed page 575
added one shorthand to the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page: (prostitution)
improved the Finnegans Wake text searching algorithm to differentiate between
"soft hyphens" (indicating a word split into two at the end of a line), which are,
as before, silently ignored by the text search (e.g. "Belchum's" [009.30-.31]), and
"hard hyphens" (regular hyphens or dashes that just happen to land at the end of a line),
which are now no longer ignored by the text search (e.g. "Sophy-Key-Po" [009.34-.35])
edited the June 2010 tip on the tips page to reflect the
above-mentioned algorithm improvement
26 Feb 2024
reviewed page 576
added missing images in the Finnegans Wake text (on pp. 044, 272, 293, 308)
and slightly improved existing ones (on pp. 119, 124, 299)
25 Mar 2024
reviewed page 577
added three shorthands to the "Books", "Motifs" and "People" brevities
on the search engine page: (Brémont) +
(old/new) + (King Arthur)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Brémont)
renamed two shorthands in the "Languages" brevity on the search engine
page, from "Rumanian" to "Romanian", and from "Rhaeto-Romanic" to "Romansch"
7 Apr 2024
reviewed page 578
added two shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (alphabet sequence,
Magdalene laundry)
29 Apr 2024
reviewed page 579
added one shorthand to the "People" brevity on the
search engine page: (Turgesius)
24 May 2024
crossed the 97,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 580
added two shorthands to the "Minor Characters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Hosty) + (rhyme the rann)
11 Oct 2024
the site is nineteen years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
12 Oct 2024
the site is nineteen years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 5.5 million searches run
added four shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Brody, Byrne,
Massingham (1st)) + (bless/blast)
added three electronic texts to the sources page:
(Brody, Byrne, Massingham (1st))
26 Oct 2024
reviewed page 581
added issue 24 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Byrne (1st), Collins (3rd),
Hemingway, O'Brien (1st))
added four electronic texts to the sources page:
(Byrne (1st), Collins (3rd), Hemingway, O'Brien (1st))
replaced one electronic text on the sources page with a
better (searchable) version: (Handbook of the Ulster Question)
3 Nov 2024
reviewed page 582
24 Nov 2024
reviewed page 583
added four shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Yeats (1st)) +
(horse racing, naval) + (she had to laugh)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Yeats (1st))
renamed a shorthand in the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page, from "Racing and Sport"
to "Sport"
added links to a video of my recent interview with Gerry Fialka, located
at the bottom of the search engine page
14 Dec 2024
reviewed page 584
added four shorthands to the "Clusters", "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (from laughter to cock crow,
thanks) + (lucky pig) + (Billy-in-the-Bowl)
26 Dec 2024
crossed the 98,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 585
added Brown & Knuth's "The Tenor and the Vehicle" to the
bibliography page
15 Jan 2025
reviewed page 586
added one shorthand to the "Minor Characters" brevity
on the search engine page: (the Maggies)
In the past couple of weeks or so, Fweet has come under an attack of web bots
that has led to occasional deterioration in performance, at one point even causing
the website to crash, requiring a reboot. As traditional methods of blocking these
bots have failed, I have resorted to implementing a heuristic algorithm that
attempts to determine whether a Fweet search had been initiated by a human
or a bot, aborting the latter. Since this method, based on the search's parameters,
is by no means perfect, it may lead to a valid search run by a human (e.g. you)
being mistakenly thought of as that of a bot. If that happens, you will see a
message reading something like "Sorry, this search looks like it has been run
by a robot. If instead you are a human attempting to run a valid and useful search,
please contact me via the 'Comment on Me!!' button below", in which case I
would be grateful if you were indeed to contact me, so that we can together find a
solution and thereby improve the heuristic algorithm.
4 Feb 2025
due to an overload created by aggressive and unruly web bots, coinciding with my being
without internet access while travelling in and around Antarctica, Fweet was
inaccessible for two whole weeks, from 21 January to 4 February, causing much dismay and
severe withdrawal symptoms all around the world
I am slowly working on an imperfect solution to reduce the risk of this happening again
27 Mar 2025
reviewed page 587
added eleven shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Motifs" and "People" brevities
on the search engine page: (Carnochan & Adamson,
O'Flaherty) + (bed, Hiss!, Jimmy? — Who, which) + (Cambridge/Oxford,
misunderstanding or echo, date of Easter, picture on the wall) + (Isaac Butt)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(O'Flaherty)
12 Apr 2025
reviewed page 588
added six shorthands to the "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities
on the search engine page: (Christmas, cobblers, forest,
weather) + (type/tope, overalls)
renamed a shorthand in the "Clusters" brevity on the
search engine page, from "Jimmy? — Who" to "Who"
24 Apr 2025
crossed the 99,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 589
19 May 2025
reviewed page 590
following up on elucidations contributed by Michael Schaefer and others,
added thirteen shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Minor Characters" and "Motifs"
brevities on the search engine page: (Hall & Knight) +
(cats, rainbow, vampires) + (Buttercup, Matt Gregory, Marcus Lyons, Luke Tarpey,
Johnny MacDougall) + (cry wolf, midden dump, orangery, Walker)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Hall & Knight)
added Gordon's Blog, McHugh's Annotations (3rd & 4th editions), and
Rose & O'Hanlon's Digital Archive to the "Portions of Books and Websites"
section of the bibliography page
added chapters III.4 through IV to Hayman's First-Draft Version
in the "Portions of Books and Websites" section
of the bibliography page
added notes to the search engine,
user's manual and tips
pages to clarify that in order for the "Save Default" functionality to
survive across sessions, one should avoid deleting Fweet's cookies
(for example, when closing one's web browser)
added links to a video of my second interview with Gerry Fialka, located
at the bottom of the search engine page