Weekly review: Week ending Nov 29, 2009 (and website redesign!)
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It’s amazing what you can do with focused time. I created my own website theme, tweaked a number of things that had been bugging me, and tried some optimizations. I’d love to hear what you think about the new theme, and what could make the site even better for you. =) Looking forward to your comments!
Plans from last week:
Work
Catch up on deferred workInterview Jason WildPresent “Remote Presentations That Rock” at IBM women’s leadership programDouble-check calendar (including speaking engagements)- Also: Organized training activity
- Documented processes
- Set up community for women’s leadership program
- Filed expenses from Boston trip
- Nudged manager
Relationships
- Take more pictures
Tidy up around house- Also: Enjoyed watching W- play Quake 4
Life
Work on writing backlogReview editors’ feedback- Bake another pie
- Cut pieces for a coat
- Also: Sent permanent residency paperwork
- Created new website theme that involves more sketches and a grid layout, yay!
- Started learning animation
- Ordered Anime Studio 6 Debut
- Learned more about drawing
- Picked up tons of books from the library
- Looked up paperwork needs
Plans for next week:
Work
- Support training sessions, community
- Interview speaker for podcast
- Talk to various people in the organization about similar initiatives
Relationships
- Spend more time cooking
- Buy/make gifts
Life
- Tweak blog some more
- Learn more about animation
- Post sketches
- Recover from cold
5 comments
CC
2009-11-30T07:51:32ZBright and Wonderful !
I'd like to know : and all that site within emacs and planner ?
(I use planner "locally" and basically).
Dean Michael Berris
2009-11-30T11:45:44ZGreat new look Sacha! Looking forward to reading more about your programming work in the next few weeks/months. :)
dismantr
2009-11-30T19:57:08ZGood sketched icons ;-)
It could have been clearer if all the icons would have been on the same screen (one have to scroll down to discover all your interests - your communication would have been more efficient with a more compact view) ;
An idea I could use one day for myself: putting your categories on a schematics with circles that define you and that could delimit areas of interest (like technophile (for geek, emacs, drupal, for example), communicative (for speaking, outsourcing, connecting, sketching, for example), and passionate (for work, life, weekly)... I can draw you a draft representing what I think about if you're interested - in a comment that's difficult to render... Tell me what you think of this idea :-).
Sacha Chua
2009-11-30T21:49:22ZCC: No, this is Wordpress-based, but you can certainly spruce up your Planner with a CSS grid theme and images in the published output. =)
Dean: Just some CSS tweaks I picked up from the Net, and some hand-hacking of the database and navigation links...
Sacha Chua
2009-11-30T21:57:31Zdismantr: That might make a good separate page. =)
I thought about having a horizontal toolbar of words, but I need to fiddle a bit with the icons in order to make that pretty. I should probably remove the words from the icons. That'll help me use space more effectively, and it'll be more accessible, too.