things to do list: submit URL via sitemeter's submission engine, which seems to have generated some traffic on my other blogs. submit to dmoz because it's a cool idea.
email the couple of academics who have used this word and ask them if it's still in common use.
get a decent template.
URL update: melbourne IT demanded that my details be exactly the same on my request before they'd let go of ratava.com. but it's coming through soon. then this blog will be the discussion area/place for thoughts and notes for the site currently at ratava.net there will also be links to references to the word ratava, and lots of my cyber-related uni essays and all that.
any minute now ... don't be impatient, I've got two other blogs, an email habit, a uni essay and a writing job to feed. sometimes I feel like a a word-cow.
there is a reason I am delighted that there is a butterfly of "Range: Sikkim, Assam - Burma, N.Thailand" called R. j. ravata (Moore)
Remelana jangala ravata ; [BOR], 618; [MRS], 648, even though I don't know what those numbers mean (they're here) it's that Vladimir Nabokov, a writer who didn't write, but sang, was a keen lepidopterist.
I know it's a cruel hobby, but I can forgive the author of Lolita a lot.
(edit: I've just realised its raVata, not raTava. but I'm leaving it in b/c of Nabokov.)
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