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Weekly review: Week ending March 11, 2011

From last week’s plans

  • Work
    • [X] Work on critsit involving AJAX and PHP
    • [X] Start building web services using Websphere Application Server
    • [X] Shepherd the Rails project through legal approval process
  • Relationships
    • [X] Meet up with Cate Huston and Maggie Zhou
    • [X] Help with study group
    • [X] Book flights
  • Life
    • [X] Try more Zipcast experiments
    • [-] Practise driving – it’s been very snowy and icy
    • [-] Write about tweetchats and presentations
    • [X] Work on plans
    • Gave GTALug presentation on Org mode

Plans for next week

  • Work
    • [ ] Work on critsit involving AJAX and PHP
    • [ ] Deploy web services onto Websphere Application Server in test environment
    • [ ] Create stub web services, maybe integrate with DB2
    • [ ] Sort out work priorities for April
  • Relationships
    • [ ] Catch up with mail, networks
    • [ ] Help with study group
    • [ ] Make pie for Pi Day
  • Life
    • [ ] Finish value of blogging series
    • [ ] Write about tutoring math
    • [ ] More Zipcast experiments: what if I treat them like office hours?
    • [ ] Write about tweetchats and what I want out of them
    • [ ] Make more bread

Time analysis

Had a focused week at work (critical projects plus lots of other things going on), but still managed to keep it within reasonable hours. Found some time to apply digital painting tips I picked up from the Web. Shifted travel time and social time to preparing for presentations.

Category This week Last week Delta Notes
Break 3.0 1.3 1.7
Drawing 1.2 1.2
Exercise 2.2 3.8 -1.6
Personal 6.1 1.6 4.5 Preparing presentations
Preparation 2.0 3.2 -1.2
Routines – cooking 3.2 2.3 0.9 Slightly more time for breakfasts
Routines – general 14.8 7.6 7.2 Probably included tidying time
Routines – tidying 1.6 7.8 -6.2
Sleep 59.0 58.5 0.6
Social 24.2 29.2 -5.0 Presentation, study group
Travel 5.1 7.5 -2.4
Work 40.8 40.2 0.6
Writing 4.8 4.8 0.0

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