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Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 1 January 2012 at 13:56
Happy New Year #Tangut style from @MarcMiyake amritas.com/120107.htm#010…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 January 2012 at 19:24
released BabelStone Han v.1.09 babelfonts.blogspot.com/2010/07/babels… only 700 new Han thingies this time -- need to do 3,210 more before end of year
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 23:37
New version of Ideographic Variation Database published - 50% increase from 18,842 to 27,724 IVS sequences unicode.org/ivd/data/2012-… #crap
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 17 March 2012 at 01:46
beatiful pics of the Trumpington bed burial and pectoral cross flickr.com/photos/cambrid… -- shame about the licence :(
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 23:58
New Publication: Old Tibetan Texts in the Stein Collection Or.8210 wp.me/p52Hj-l5 via @samjvs
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 15 May 2012 at 23:11
What's new in Unicode 6.2 ? U+20BA TURKISH LIRA SIGN .. yep, that's all, scheduled for release circa September 2012 (in lieu of a blog post)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 25 May 2012 at 23:57
What's new in Unicode 6.2 ? (the full story) babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 26 May 2012 at 11:02
I was 4 months late with BabelMap/Pad for Unicode 6.1, but I'm 4 months early with BabelMap/Pad for Unicode 6.2 babelstone.co.uk/Software/Beta6…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 June 2012 at 20:50
My daughter was shocked to be greeted by porn when visiting today's FA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth… -- vandalism on several unprotected templates
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at 00:14
Just released BabelStone Han version 1.10 -- plus 2,224 Han characters babelfonts.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/babels…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 21:09
British Library -- Endangered Archives: Interactive Map eap.bl.uk/database/map.a…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 21:10
Preservation and digitisation of Yi archives in public and private collections in Yunnan, China eap.bl.uk/database/overv…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 21:11
Preservation of the last hieroglyphic manuscripts in China: Shui archives in Libo, Guizhou eap.bl.uk/database/overv…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 21:12
Digitisation of Yi archives in south dialect in Yunnan, China eap.bl.uk/database/overv…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 21:13
Salvage and preservation of dongjing archives in Yunnan, China: transcript, score, ritual and performance eap.bl.uk/database/overv…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 21:18
Digital images of a Dongjing music score -- but really not "written in guqin notation" bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 18:56
The citadel of Altan-khoto, where, according to legend, was once situated the cavalry guard detachment of Khara-khoto maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=2…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 June 2012 at 17:55
Happy 80th birthday Prof. Kychanov! orientalstudies.ru/rus/index.php?… #tangutology
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 June 2012 at 17:58
"Tanguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. E. I. Kychanov" orientalstudies.ru/rus/index.php?… #tangutology
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 June 2012 at 18:04
... including a sketch of Pre-Tangut by @MarcMiyake and notes on Tangut flute notation by myself
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 22 July 2012 at 19:11
WIkipedia article on #secrettreasures has pics of 46 of 50 objects thx to @findsorguk (just not #1!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%2…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 22 July 2012 at 21:05
Wikipedia #secrettreasures article now has pics of all 50 objects thanks to enlightened licensing policy of @findsorguk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%2…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 July 2012 at 23:18
Pax tibi, Marce, Evangelista meus finds.org.uk/database/artef… #secrettreasures
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 July 2012 at 23:44
... found 5 miles from where I live -- how come I never find anything interesting when I walk the Pilgrims' Way?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 23 July 2012 at 23:52
The bronze booklet with the amazing story itv.com/treasure/extra… (odd that it has been on the PAS database since November 2000)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 22:37
Just received my copy of "Tanguts in Central Asia" babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Images/… with my article on Tangut flute notation babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Images/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 22:54
The ms that is the subject of my paper babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Images/… and a summary of what it means babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Images/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 00:20
Stuart Schram, biographer of Chairman Mao, has died en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_R.…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 20:50
BL Papyrus 1185 - a list of athletes in the 75th-78th Olympiads (480-468 BC) and the 81st-83rd Olympiads (456-448 BC) britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanus…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 August 2012 at 11:38
MarcMiyake and BabelStone have been trying to figure out what the name of the third legendary chief of the Khitan was amritas.com/120804.htm#080…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 21:13
Naming and shaming GLAMs with excessively restrictive photography policies : National Museum Wales museumwales.ac.uk/en/1422/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 26 August 2012 at 16:20
Pictures of a village of yurts and stone towers that is being constructed in the Bourne Wood for the Thor 2 movie commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 2 September 2012 at 18:20
Tables of Tangut cursive script components babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Cursive…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 2 September 2012 at 18:29
12th century 5.74 metre Buddhist scroll written in cursive Tangut script babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Baisigo…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 3 September 2012 at 21:24
Fascinating interview with Chinese Tangutologist Shi Jinbo cssn.cn/news/436410.htm
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 7 September 2012 at 00:47
Updated Ogham Stones of Cornwall and Devon babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/ogham-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 7 September 2012 at 18:17
A few more pics of Thor 2 set at Bourne Wood -- filming starts on Monday flickr.com/photos/babelst…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 9 September 2012 at 00:30
Coins of the Qara Khitay zeno.ru/showgallery.ph…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 12 September 2012 at 22:40
Extracts from a Tangut-Cornish vocabulary compiled by the Franciscan monk John de Cornubia in the mid 13th century ➡.ws/tcv
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 22 September 2012 at 17:15
Burnt out yurt and damaged stone tower after completion of filming of Thor 2 at Bourne Woods commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bour…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 23 September 2012 at 08:35
Enjoy the 10th anniversary of Marc Miyake's linguistic blog "Amaravati: Abode of Amritas" amritas.com/120922.htm#092…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 22:20
BabelMap Online now upgraded for Unicode 6.2 (released today) babelstone.co.uk/unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 22:21
Unicode Slide Show now upgraded for Unicode 6.2 (released today) babelstone.co.uk/unicode/unicod…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 08:33
Marc Miyake pays tribute to Japan's greatest Tangutologist, 西田龍雄 Nishida Tatsuo, who passed away yesterday amritas.com/120929.htm#092…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 22:04
Pages from Eric Grinstead's 1971 compilation of the Tangut Tripitaka babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Tripita…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 19:57
再提一位不是“老头子”的外国学人-英国汉学家和语言学家Andrew Christopher West（中文名“魏安”） -- 《东方早报》 2012.09.09 dfdaily.com/html/1170/2012…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 23:31
My 4th proposal to encode Tangut in 4 years (I'm not filled with confidence this time round) std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 23:34
My 2nd proposal to encode Tangut radicals and components in 5 years std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 23:35
Code charts for proposed Tangut characters and radicals std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 23:37
Five years of not getting Tangut encoded babelstone.co.uk/tangut/TangutD…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 15 October 2012 at 22:35
Code chart for the 5,768 characters proposed for CJK-E -- std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at 00:16
After a 10-month break I return to blogging with a post examining Liao dynasty seals with Khitan inscriptions -- babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/khitan…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at 18:02
Medieval Elephants on Parade from @blmedieval britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanus…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at 18:07
Bizarre and sometimes rude marginal drawings on the Gorleston Psalter via @blmedieval britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanus…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 22:30
Just released BabelMap version 6.2.0.3 supporting Unicode 6.2 (nearly a month late -- sorry!) babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 22:30
Just released BabelPad version 6.2.0.3 supporting Unicode 6.2 (nearly a month late -- sorry!) babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 2 November 2012 at 19:15
Wikipedia Editathon at British Library last week -- great meeting everyone there idpuk.blogspot.nl/2012/10/wikipe…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 2 December 2012 at 01:05
IDS sequences for 5,768 CJK-E characters proposed in N4358 babelstone.co.uk/CJK/CJK_E_IDS.… (warning code points are not yet stable, and will change)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 2 December 2012 at 01:07
Sequential listing of all characters in Nevsky's manuscript Tangut dictionary (1960) babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/NevskyL…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 2 December 2012 at 01:08
Index of characters in Nevsky's manuscript Tangut dictionary by Li Fanwen 2008 number babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/NevskyM…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 10:52
One to twenty in Jurchen, Khitan and Lute babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/one-to…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 17:00
OED apologises for publishing "bloodbath" as today's word of the day public.oed.com/the-oed-today/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 09:28
Was the ancient Chinese elephant a species of Palaeoloxodon? bbc.co.uk/nature/20678793 (I'm not convinced)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 16:56
What Unicode character is this ? babelstone.co.uk/unicode/whatis… (new javascript tool that converts Unicode characters to their character names)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 24 December 2012 at 10:48
Alfabeto Goblin - una guida tascabile smial-bolgeri.blogspot.com
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 24 December 2012 at 15:26
An Introduction to Tangut Pronunciation by Marc Miyake amritas.com/121229.htm#122…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 27 December 2012 at 02:23
One to Ten in Tangut and Flute babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/one-to…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 30 December 2012 at 22:41
Excellent pamphlet on Mes Aynak excavations nationalmuseum.af/images/stories… h/t @HelenWangLondon
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 31 December 2012 at 02:30
2nd century BC silk maps from Mawangdui babelstone.co.uk/China/Mawangdu…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 31 December 2012 at 20:29
Star chart carved in 1247 on a stone stele at the Confucian Temple in Suzhou babelstone.co.uk/China/StarChar… (I might need to get a new scanner)
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