BabelStone Twitter Archive : 2011

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January


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



February


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"



March


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



April


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



May


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



June


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



July


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…



August


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…



September


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…



October


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…



November


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



December


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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