October was an excellent month. My work laptop upgrade meant that I could bring just one laptop to work instead of two. I’ve added lots of things to my Quantified Awesome personal dashboard. J- has caught up at school, and is doing well. We’re looking into how to make the house more energy-efficient. I’m learning more about cooking, and have picked up some new recipes. Life is good.

From my plans from September: I added library functionality to my dashboard, tracking the currently-checked out items as well as some statistics on the books I’ve read (retail price, number of pages, and so on). I think I’ll postpone the blog review to December or August.

In November, I’m going to focus on having a place for everything and everything in its place. I’m experimenting with the stuff-tracking I’ve added to my personal dashboard. Looking forward to sharing screenshots and experiences, and maybe even opening it up so that other people can track their things too. I’d like to see if I can complete a month of tracking stuff, and what I find myself needing to add to it. Let’s see how that works out!

Blog posts this month:

• Review:
• Weekly review: Week ending September 30, 2011
• Weekly review: Weeks ending October 7 and October 14, 2011
• Weekly review: Week ending October 21, 2011
• Weekly review: Week ending October 28, 2011
• Monthly review: September 2011

Quantified Awesome:

• Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto Oct 21 2011
• Tracking and organizing my clothes: substituting mathematics for fashion sense
• Geek travel: Planning outfits using matrices
• Geek travel update: Mostly as planned
• Jetlag-assisted early days
• Quantified Awesome: Data from waking up 3 hours earlier than normal

Work:

• Decision review: Working at IBM
• Tweaking my Windows 7 setup more: Emacs on all virtual desktops!
• Learning browser-based testing with Selenium
• The joys of development with Selenium web-testing
• Working with FTP sites
• Life:
• Decision review: Marrying W-
• Figuring out how to plan for a month
• It turns out that “I suck” moments are more negotiable than I thought
• Stories from the trip: Making my peace with endings
• Stories from our trip: Furry caterpillar
• Thought roundup: Podcasts, drawing, cats, and towels
• From the feeds: Writing, more writing, journalism, and automation
• From the feeds: Ramen, personal assistants, productivity, co-schooling, and being yourself
• Practising drawing: variations on a theme

Tips:

• Transcript: Blogging (Part 6): Looking back
• Transcript: Blogging (Part 7): Learning how to write
• Transcript: Blogging (Part 8): Slow life down and speed it up
• Transcript: Blogging (Part 9): Learning from others
• From the feeds: Saving money, making money, balancing life, reading books, and making rainbows
• Monitoring multiple WordPress sites for comments using Yahoo Pipes
• Decision review: Switching from Rackspace Cloud to Linode