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Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 3 January 2011 at 00:36
Part 4 of the history of the lost game of Liubo -- https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2011/01/lost-game-of-liubo-part-4-game-boards.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 15 February 2011 at 00:27
BabelStone Irk Bitig (http://babelfonts.blogspot.com/2011/02/babelstone-irk-bitig.html) -- an Old Turkic font for the "Book of Omens"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 1 March 2011 at 23:45
Just installed SP1 and to my delight discovered that Windows 7 no longer sucks
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 16 April 2011 at 20:34
Unicode 6.0 -- one character at a time https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2011/04/unicode-60-one-character-at-time.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 1 May 2011 at 00:19
Proposal to encode the Marchen script http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4032.pdf
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 2 May 2011 at 11:20
New version of BabelStone Han font http://babelfonts.blogspot.com/2010/07/babelstone-han.html -- but still a long long way to go
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 8 May 2011 at 23:37
BabelMap goes online at href="https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelmap.html -- #javascript version of my #unicode character map application
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 20 May 2011 at 20:10
我居然成了个山寨大王 http://bbs.themex.net/showthread.php?t=16873477
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 21 May 2011 at 08:26
Wikipedia finally outs Ryan Giggs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Giggs (at least for the time being)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 May 2011 at 00:30
UK position on the UTC's attempt to introduce a new encoding model for simplified Chinese http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4075.pdf
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 May 2011 at 23:16
Tangut encoding proposal take 4: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4033.pdf -- 3rd time lucky I hope
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 May 2011 at 23:17
List of proposed 6,080 characters: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4033A.pdf (4MB)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 May 2011 at 23:18
Multicolumn chart: href="http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4033B.pdf (22MB)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 May 2011 at 23:25
Documents related to the encoding of Tangut: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutDocuments.html -- four proposals in four years
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 8 June 2011 at 22:30
https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutData.html #Tangut Character Database -- very much work in progress
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 11 June 2011 at 12:49
My rules of "long s" post babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-… has just been published in TUGboat tug.org/TUGboat/Conten…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 13 June 2011 at 22:09
What's new in #Unicode 6.1 ? babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/06/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 13 June 2011 at 23:08
Random #Unicode character babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 15 June 2011 at 22:28
Fantastic effort by wikipedians to photograph almost all the objects in #AHOW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 23:21
Electronic index to to the #Tangut characters in 文海研究 -- babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WHYJ_In…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 22 June 2011 at 00:00
does not think that registration of non-variants in the IVD is is useful to the wider #unicode community unicode.org/ivd/pri/pri183/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 June 2011 at 01:37
U+272F0 𧋰 -- still the most troublesome ideograph in #unicode ? babelstone.blogspot.com/2007/12/cjk-b-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 June 2011 at 01:45
invites people to see if they can tell the difference between 喩󠄀 and 喩󠄁 (U+55A9 + VS17 vs U+55A9 + VS18) unicode.org/ivd/data/2007-… #unicode
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 30 June 2011 at 22:31
Taking a look at the #ogham stones of the Isle of Man babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/06/ogham-… #iom
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 1 July 2011 at 20:57
Started my first new Wikipedia article since March en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furness_H… #furness #viking #hoard
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 July 2011 at 08:02
Tried out the #wikilove button for the first time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk… -- thanking @Johnbod for improving a bunch of articles that I started
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2011 at 22:53
Penwith #Ogham Stone update babelstone.blogspot.com/2009/11/penwit… -- frustrating lack of interest in finding the missing fragments! #archaeology
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 July 2011 at 20:33
Kane's list of small #Khitan characters babelstone.co.uk/Khitan/Kane200… -- something very unsatisfactory about this list in my opinion
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 July 2011 at 20:38
Another IVD registration unicode.org/ivd/pri/pri187/ -- am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong here? ... oh, yes, appears I am
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 11 July 2011 at 01:10
Can an 850 year old mirror found recently in Inner Mongolia throw any light on the extinct #Khitan language? babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/07/mirror…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 July 2011 at 21:39
MarcMiyake discusses the a-b-sence of -b- in #Khitan where it's expected on the b-asis of #Mongolian: amritas.com/110716.htm#071…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 at 20:16
Added four more images to my 72 Views of the Tower of Babel babelstone.blogspot.com/2007/01/72-vie…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 August 2011 at 22:57
My use of Ngram Viewer to plot the transition from long s to short s is featured on the Google Research Blog googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/cultur…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 14 August 2011 at 23:03
1548 edition of #三國演義 back online after a server upgrade babelstone.co.uk/sanguoyanyi/Ye…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 15 August 2011 at 23:46
Just received my copy of "An Beybel Sans" (Holy Bible in Cornish) published by @Evertype -- excellent! evertype.com/books/beybel.h…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 19 August 2011 at 23:01
The story of how we got our alphabets -- Adventures of a Palaeontologist (!) bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-… ... surely some mistake
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 24 August 2011 at 08:20
Photos I took at the National Museum of China recently commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Babe…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 25 August 2011 at 00:11
Multilingual Buddhist inscriptions at the Cloud Platform commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Babe… #Sanskrit #Tibetan #Phagspa #Uyghur #Tangut #Chinese
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 29 August 2011 at 20:54
Is the supposed #Tangut Ritual Language a myth? babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/08/myth-o…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 at 23:31
Mongolian and Manchu resources back online babelstone.co.uk/Mongolian/Reso…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 2 September 2011 at 20:00
Updated #Tangut Character Database to include mappings and glyphs for Nishida's 1966 dictionary babelstone.co.uk/tangut/TangutD…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 September 2011 at 01:38
IDP Paleography Resource idp.bl.uk/education/pale… #tibetan #chinese #palaeography
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 10 September 2011 at 10:06
enwp.org/Jin_Guangping enwp.org/Jin_Qizong enwp.org/Aisin-Gioro_Ul… -- 3 generations of scholars of #jurchen #khitan and #manchu
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 10 September 2011 at 17:56
Jin dynasty mural dated 1189 of go players babelstone.blogspot.com/2009/04/pictor… #weiqi
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 17 September 2011 at 00:26
64 objects you'll never see outside China en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 18 September 2011 at 01:32
Someone blew up a pagoda in 1990 and in the ruins were found Buddhist relics and #Tangut books en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baisigou_…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 19 September 2011 at 08:28
Took me the best part of Sunday, from 10:30 in the morning until 2:23 at night, to write about a #Tangut tantric text en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspiciou…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 20 September 2011 at 22:37
Wikipedia needs fewer editors not more -- fewer editors who can spend less time clearing up crap
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 September 2011 at 00:42
#BabelMap online now has user-configured colours and remembers your preferences babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 September 2011 at 21:34
#Unicode 6.1 Beta slide show babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 September 2011 at 21:35
BabelMap Online for #Unicode 6.1 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 24 September 2011 at 20:45
Rhinoceroses in ancient China en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinocero…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 1 October 2011 at 22:39
Om mani padme hum in 6 scripts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele_of_… and 4 scripts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongning_…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 9 October 2011 at 15:09
Rod Liddle peddles shit on Radio 4 -- no, the Red Kite is not and never has been known as the "shite-hawk" -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shite-hawk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 17 October 2011 at 20:33
Bredon Hill Hoard on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredon_Hi…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 21 October 2011 at 20:39
Shite-hawk stirring it up on the main page for DYK (in case anyone hadn't noticed) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shite-hawk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 22 October 2011 at 16:50
Takes a look at a fragment of a Khitan manuscript -- Oh, how the gods mock us! babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/10/khitan…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 21:49
Phags-pa fragments from a dead city babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/10/fragme…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 October 2011 at 21:59
Diligently carved in Tangut -- but what is it? babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/10/dilige…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 October 2011 at 23:23
10th century coins and other artefacts found in a stone tortoise box from a pagoda on Hainan Island primaltrek.com/blog/2011/10/2…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 01:18
Bredon Hill Hoard on "Did You Know?" now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredon_Hi… #dyk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 22:58
Traditional Tibetan calligraphy using a birch board and a bamboo pen inkessential.blogspot.com/2011/11/bamboo…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 4 November 2011 at 01:13
"I, Buyan Qaya" -- 14th century Uyghur - Phags-pa graffiti babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/11/phags-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 November 2011 at 11:22
2nd anniversary of the finding of the Penwith ogham stone babelstone.blogspot.com/2009/11/penwit… -- a highly significant but unexpectedly neglected discovery
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 November 2011 at 01:32
Astonishing story of the discovery and "excavation" of the dead city of Khara-khoto by Kozlov in 1908 babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Kychano…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 November 2011 at 21:01
China's biggest coin (57.8 cm & 41.5 kg) -- 1522-1567 commemorative coin found in Yunnan in 1997 primaltrek.com/blog/2011/11/0…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 12 November 2011 at 01:41
Taking a look at Phags-pa Uyghur seals on Old Uyghur and Mongolian documents babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/11/phags-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 14 November 2011 at 00:50
Shapecatcher.com: #Unicode Character Recognition via @Shapecatcher
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 14 November 2011 at 00:52
My 2006 report to Microsoft on their #Mongolian Baiti font babelstone.co.uk/Mongolian/Mong… -- very disappointing that so very little has been fixed yet
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 at 01:34
Chinese villagers find coins spanning 2000 years in river bed primaltrek.com/blog/2011/11/1… via @primaltrek
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 22 November 2011 at 23:41
Scale of looting and destruction of China's cultural heritage continues to shock, but not surprise …ngolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2011/11/cultur… via @MongolsSilkRoad
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 22 November 2011 at 23:56
This story is shocking for an entirely different reason chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nationa… if the NPM opened up its collection then who would "steal" it ?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 28 November 2011 at 23:24
Criminals target a Liao dynasty pagoda …ngolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2011/11/diggin… reminds me of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baisigou_… which was blown up in search of treasure
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 01:08
created a test page for Tangut manuscripts with Tibetan phonetic glosses babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutT…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 21:36
Silverdale hoard on Wikipedia -- nice work Prioryman! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverdal…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 22:15
#BritishLibrary MS Harley 2332 -- a medieval manuscript Christmas puzzle britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanus…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 20:27
Tangut transcribed in Tibetan -- babelstone.blogspot.com/2011/12/tangut…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 23 December 2011 at 17:42
Lavanify must be the worst #wikipedia featured article I've ever seen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavanify
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 26 December 2011 at 01:21
My "rules for long s" takes the January 1st spot in the "365 top stories on Hacker News 2011" -- rrrewind.com/assets/yearly/…
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