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

• Weekly review: Week ending October 18, 2013
• What do I want to learn about learning?
• Growing slowly, adjusting the speed
• Visual book review: How to make a complete map of every thought you think (Lion Kimbro)
• Jetpack subscribers: Terribly sorry about the test posts! Disabling, please use Feedburner to subscribe instead
• Sketchnote Lesson: Metaphors
• Daily drawing update: So far, fantastic!

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

• Making Emacs Work For Me – beautiful example of literate configuration
• How to free yourself from recipes with a few golden cooking ratios – More cooking! More, more!
• Latin LOLcat: Dives cui satis unus ager. – Rich is he for whom one field is enough.
• The three biggest challenges following extreme early retirement – Comments have lots of ways to address the “So, what do you do?” question
• Work versus Life. Greatness versus Family. – Actually, we’ve come pretty far. Make the most of it!
• Finding out which app is listening to a port on Windows – Turns out Skype likes using port 80. Boggle.
• Preston Blair: Fundamentals of Animation Drawing – Ooh.

Sketches

• Gardening notes
• Note-taking techniques
• What I want to learn about gardening
• Note-taking system
• Week ending 2013-10-18
• Cooking notes
• Indexing
• Plenty of sleep
• When do I pause or stop when thinking about something?
• How can I think on paper more effectively?
• Fitting multiple thoughts on a page?
• What do I need to do in terms of system administration?
• How can I tap the value I create?
• How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think
• My new sketchingthinking workflow and mindmap comparisons
• Sketchnote Bullet Journal (Ryder Carroll)
• What can I do to get more value from online courses
• Different methods for (assisted) learning
• Evernote Fujitsu ScanSnap
• Thinking About Getting Better at Asking Questions
• How to Ask Questions the Right Way (Eric S. Raymond)

Focus areas and time review

• 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)