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Weekly review: Week ending July 13, 2012

A bit crunchy this week – three events on consecutive evenings! – but we pulled through just fine. Along the way, I learned a lot about formatting EPUB and MOBI, yay!

Business

  • [X] Earn: E1: Community prototyping, homepage redesign, help
  • [X] Earn: R1: Transition?
  • [X] Connect: Give Quantified Self talk at Toronto Girl Geeks Dinner
  • [X] Connect: Help host Quantified Self Toronto
  • [X] Connect: Attend TPL Small Business Meetup at the Toronto Reference Library
  • [X] Build: Learn about EPUB – posted my blog highlights book to the Amazon Kindle store! (affiliate link, naturally =) ). Woohoo!
  • [X] Build: Transcribe Emacs screencast

Relationships

  • [X] Visit Hattoris – went strawberry-picking
  • [-] Plan the Dark Knight Rises get-together? – waiting for Cineplex to release more IMAX screening times
  • Drafted response to letter

Life

  • [X] Relax
  • Survived crunch week! =)

Plans for next week

Business

  • [ ] Earn: E1: Training, creating training material
  • [ ] Connect: Set up next Emacs chat?
  • [ ] Build: Start sketching Android app
  • [ ] Build: Learn more about accounting
  • [ ] Build: Attend WordPress Toronto meetup: Custom Post Types

Relationships

  • [ ] Plan Dark Knight Rises get-together
  • [ ] Help lay the foundation for the shed

Life

  • [ ] Play more LEGO Batman 2 =)

Time notes

  • Business: 52:20 (E1 26:15, connect 5:26)
  • Discretionary: 32:30 (Emacs 0:26, social 17:09, writing 6:56)
  • Personal: 21:30 (biking 5:21, routines 11:39)
  • Sleep: 55:16 (average 7.9 hours per day)
  • Unpaid work: 4:20

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  • 2007: Buying books — I confess: I went to Chapters today with the sole intention of finding a book to give to a good friend, [...]
  • 2007: Dynamic Earth — We went to Dynamic Earth today, which is the other big attraction in Sudbury. I knew that Canada’s mineral resources were [...]
  • 2006: EXITE and the quest for hot chocolate — Yesterday I re-learned that I can teach even when everything’s going blah. I’d been running on far too little sleep for the [...]
  • 2004: Concerns about graduate school — The school I would really like to go to has the following note about Philippine schools: Master's Minimum Admission Requirements: [...]
  • 2004: Talked to DocV about my plans — Told him about my GRE scores, and he was very encouraging. Also told him about my interest in personal information management. [...]
  • 2004: Class reflections — - CS21A: Dr. Sarmenta did the worm thingy for control. I need to find a better way to explain that, as [...]
  • 2004: Finally got mail working again — Used a sneaky little workaround in my Postfix. Shhh, don’t tell Destiny. ;)
  • 2003: Awwwwww… =) — Richi put a cute little easter egg on my site. Warm and fuzzy feeling.
  • 2003: MyExpenses
  • 2003: Java to C++ — http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs032/resources/C++tutorial.html
  • 2003: Java blog — http://enigmastation.com/blog/1057577842750.resource
  • 2003: “Head First Java” author interview — http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/3925
  • 2003: eLearning conference — 2. Designing eLearning Courses for Higher Education Patricia B Arinto Number of participants: 30 people In this one-day workshop, participants will mine the [...]
  • 2003: Autoconf tutorial — http://www2.dystance.net:8080/software/docs/pdf/automake.pdf

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