Sysad stuff – Weekly review: Week ending October 25, 2013

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It’s funny how easy it is to forget what you’ve done. Anyway, this week was the week of system administration! Lots of good stuff. On the learning front, I learned a lot about mapping.

Way more sleep this week – I wonder why…

Blog posts

Quick notes

  • Rails was redirecting to SSL after login. Fixed by removing SSL options from Nginx site config.
  • Oh, my sitemap hadn’t been updated in 2003. Added a redirect rule to use the one created by SEO by Yoast.

Link roundup

Sketches

Focus areas and time review

Weekly review - week ending 2013-10-25

  • Business (58.3h – 34%)
    • Earn (20.3h – 34% of Business)
      • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Monday half-day
      • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
      • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
      • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Wednesday half-day
      • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Monday half-day
      • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
      • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
      • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Wednesday half-day
    • Build (27.3h – 46% of Business)
      • [X] Add Evernote to my backup plan
      • [X] Add a Makefile target (copy-to-combat) that copies my webserver backups to the home server
      • [X] Check on sitemap
      • [X] Disable pingbacks in dev?
      • [X] Doublecheck contact form on Experivis – broken?
      • [X] Fix sitemap submission
      • [X] Get nginx running
      • [X] Load all the databases
      • [X] Make sure Quantified Awesome works
      • [X] Make sure backups are properly encoded
      • [X] Quit Skype to free up port 80, use that instead
      • [X] Set up my hosts file and domain names
      • [X] Solve why Rails is redirecting to https
      • [X] Track down subscription duplication
      • [X] Try to get old backup drive working again
      • [ ] Set up WP caching
      • Quantified Awesome (1.7h)
        • [X] Analyze yearly consumption
        • [ ] Sort clothes by name by default
      • Drawing (6.5h)
        • [X] Map out Lion Kimbro’s book
        • [X] Practise using multiple colours
        • [ ] Break another ten sketchnotes down into components and file them
        • [ ] Draw something technical
        • [ ] Rescan black sketchbook
      • Paperwork (0.8h)
        • [ ] File payroll return
        • [ ] Pick up paper T2 from Enterprise Toronto in City Hall
    • Connect (10.6h – 18% of Business)
      • [X] Host Quantified Self Toronto meetup
      • [X] Process and upload another QS Toronto video
  • Relationships (1.4h – 0%)
  • Discretionary – Productive (6.2h – 3%)
    • Writing (6.1h)
  • Discretionary – Play (4.2h – 2%)
  • Personal routines (18.9h – 11%)
  • Unpaid work (18.0h – 10%)
  • Sleep (67.4h – 40% – average of 9.6 per day)
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