Last night David Moles posted about installing MediaWiki, and using it as a way of keeping track of various and sundry notes, fragments, and ideas. I think this is a splendid notion, and it's one I wish I'd stumbled across before diving into Fire Star, which covers just over one thousand years in its ten chapters, features several dozen characters and action set on three continents and two planets. As this is the first in an alternate history sequence, future installments of which may be set within time periods covered in Fire Star, I may go ahead and work up a Celestial Empire wiki, once the present novel is done, just to use for future reference. If nothing else, having a single place to keep track of all of the character names, keyed off of my (insanely detailed) timelines, would be worth the price of admission. I've run into snags trying to set up SQL databases before, since I lost most of my technical fu years ago (I'm a fair hand at html these days, but that's about as far as it goes), and I don't know nothing about no Apache, but it looks like there's a fair amount of hand-holding FAQs online, so maybe I'd be able to pull it off.