Cowbell, Shavian and a sonnet

I haven't posted for a while. Here are four things:

1. Collabora have been supporting the CSS-on-window-borders project recently by letting me work on it during work hours. Here is a status update.


2. Recent updates to shavian.org.uk include a gentle Shavian tutorial and translations of all the recent XKCDs into Shavian.


3. Many years ago, I wrote a sonnet for use on a server's custom 404 page:
   

   So many years have passed since first you sought
   the lands beyond the edges of the sky,
   so many moons reflected in your eye,
   (familiar newness, fear of leaving port),
   since first you sought, and failed, and learned to fall,
   (first hope, then cynicism, silent dread,
   the countless stars, still counting overhead
   the seconds to your final voyage of all…)
   and last, in glory gold and red around
   your greatest search, your final quest to know!
   yet… ashes drift, the embers cease to glow,
   and darkened life in frozen death is drowned;
   and ashes on the swell are seen no more.
   The silence surges. Error 404.

   
   It's been spreading itself around, mostly without my permission, so I'm releasing it under a Creative Commons licence. Fly free, little sonnet! Please feel free to copy it onto your own sites, and if you would, let me know you've done so.


4. I need to write more of the Maemo tutorials. They will be coming soon. Sorry; things have been busy.

Shavian letters which are easily mistaken for one another in handwriting

Someone asked about handwritten Shavian.  There are a number of letters which can possibly be confused.  Just wanted to jot this down and come back to it later.

• The worst group: 𐑲, 𐑳, 𐑶 can all turn into one another if written fast.
• Also some pairs: 𐑯/𐑷, 𐑥/𐑭, 𐑱/𐑬.
• 𐑯𐑥 can be written as straight diagonal lines and 𐑷𐑭 as zigzags.
• We could perhaps suggest that 𐑶𐑬 be written crossed to distinguish them from 𐑱𐑲𐑳.
• That takes care of everything except the confusion of 𐑲 with 𐑳.  I'm not sure what to suggest for that.  Any thoughts?
• There are many more possible confusions if you don't take care to distinguish tall/deep and short letters: 𐑓/𐑨 𐑝/𐑩 etc.