To commemorate the 171st anniversary of the commencement of Harry's diary (and to celebrate impending delivery of the critical edition to the publisher), Harry will begin tweeting on November 20, 2016.

A conference is attended. Contacts are made. Ideas fructify unbidden.

We've always kinda figured, from the beginning, that it would be useful to have some kind of geographic representation of Harry's whereabouts over time. But it hasn't been a terribly high priority, and I, for one, have been dreading being asked to figure out the technology that would make this possible; I don't really know the first thing about mapping. Fortunately, no-one told any of Naomi's students about my dread, and one of them is curious about Harry's travels. So, away we go.

Proofreading is a big concern over here at the Harry Watkins Diary shop. I believe both Naomi and I have already written a bit about it on these pages. Because we're using XML markup (in accordance with the TEI Guidelines, we hope), the text that we are faced with proofreading may suffer from an especially wide variety of faults.

Unless you're staff on this project, there's not a whole lot to see, beyond the anecdotes and updates occasionally appearing here. Probably no-one wants to look too closely at an ongoing transcription project, anyway. For the stouter of heart, though, here's a tiny peep behind the scenes . . .