Theo Todman's Web Page - Notes Pages

1. Total Time outstanding this period = 381 hours
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1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 64)
   • Aeon: Barclay - The history of family offers a liberating view of custom and love (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Cacciafoco - The lonely life of a glyph-breaker (Comments; Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Cleary - How to find inner peace like Saint Teresa of Ávila (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Fine & Hooven - Does testosterone make men? (Comments; Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • Aeon: Hanáková - Why it matters that trauma affects women and men differently (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Hancock - Beanbag genetics (Comments; Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
   • Aeon: Vaidya & Menon - By the light of brahman (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Building an artificial scientist (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Diary of a Head Injury (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Overview (Comments; Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Wicked women? 500 years of witches (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
     → See "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (6.5 hours)
   • "Bayne (Tim) - Just a pale blue dot" (Read / Write, 2.5 hours)
   • BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - The Buddha (Read, 0.25 hours)
     → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (0.25 hours)
   • "Bliss (Rina) - What's Real about Race? Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (Write, 2 hours)
   • "Boesch (Brandon) - More-than-human science" (Read / Write, 2.5 hours)
   • "de Sutter (Adrien) - The stagnation of physics" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
   • "Dyson (Jeremy) & Nyman (Andy) - Ghost Stories" (Read / Write, 4.75 hours)
   • "Goddu (Mariel) - Suffused with causality" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Goettlich (Kerry) - Could conquest return?" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
   • "Koch (Christof) - Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist" (Read, 11.25 hours)
   • "Kopparapu (Ravi) & Misra (Jacob Haqq) - Have they been here?" (Read / Write, 2.75 hours)
   • "Lacaux (Celia) - The brain’s twilight zone: when you’re neither awake nor asleep" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Lau (Graham) - The ‘panzoic effect’: the benefits of thinking about alien life" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Majeed (Raamy) - Does national humiliation explain why wars break out?" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
   • "May (Joshua) - Why we should think of neurodiversity like we do personality" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Merritt (Stephanie) - Bruno the brave" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Mills (Sam) - Requeering Wilde" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Moravec (Matyas) - Ghosts among the philosophers" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Plakias (Alexandra) - Adjust your disgust" (Read / Write, 2.5 hours)
   • "Robinson (Andrew) - How languages spread - and go extinct" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
   • "Ross (Josephine) & Doherty (Martin) - How do we start learning to ‘read’ other people’s minds?" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • "Tahar-Malaussena (Mathilde) - Why the cat wags her tail" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Tegmark (Max) - The Mathematical Universe" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Personal Identity" (Write, 1.75 hours)
   • Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychopathology: Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) (Write, 0.75 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychopathology" (0.75 hours)
   • "Wallace (Rebekah) - Legacy of the angels" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
   • "Ward (Thomas M.) - Who was Duns Scotus?" (Read / Write, 2 hours)
2. Thesis - Research Repositioning
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (3.75 hours)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 1.25)
   • BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - Albert Einstein (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - J Robert Oppenheimer (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - John von Neumann (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - Lise Meitner (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Manhattan Project - Niels Bohr (Read, 0.25 hours)
     → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (1.25 hours)
2. Thesis Background - Status
   • 25Q1 Status Reports (4.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (4.25 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Maintenance
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (4.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (4.25 hours)
2. Website - Development
   • Website - Generator - Update LRB_Files table for "LRB - London Review of Books" (4.75 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (4.75 hours)
3. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (3 hours)
4. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 3.5)
   • Email Mailbox Pruning: Also queries to NamesCo (1.75 hours)
   • Investigating use of Blackberry tablet for Languages (0.5 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows & MS Office - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (0.75 hours)
   • PC Backups / OneDrive (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (3.5 hours)
5. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 3.5)
   • 25Q1 Status Reports (1.75 hours)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (1.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (3.5 hours)

1. Website Others - Enigma Ensemble
   • Reinstate the Enigma Ensemble Website (Enigma Ensemble) (4 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (4 hours)
2. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance
   • "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (2.25 hours)
3. Website Others - Small Bridge Sites
   • "Software Development - Small Bridge Sites - Development & Maintenance" (0.75 hours)

• Below is a table showing the progress on my project to read the OT, LXX & NT in the original Hebrew and Greek.
  1. I'm on my second pass through the NT. I've also read through the Koran, but mostly in English. One day in Arabic, maybe.
  2. I intermitted this project between August 2023 and April 2024 (inclusive; ie. 9 months); as well as deferring completion by 9 months, this has thrown out my completion-date algorithms somewhat. For now, I've amended the Completion Aims to reflect the intermission.
  3. I've calculated and used the daily rate of progress achieved prior to intermission to calculate the estimated completion date.
  4. I don't now have as much time to spare, so - as expected - this rate has fallen since the restart.
  5. I've therefore also calculated and used the daily rate of progress achieved since intermission to calculate the revised completion date.
  6. We'll see how it goes!
  
  

  Testament	Total Verses	Start Date	Intermission	Restart Date	Restart at	Elapsed	Read	V / D	Since Restart	Last Verse Read	Aim	Estimate	Ahead / Behind	Revised
  OT	23,143	13/05/2021	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	1 Samuel 9:25	808	7,469	9.2	4.3	1 Kings 3:9	31/12/2028	17/07/2029	198 Days Behind	15/05/2034
  LXX	28,986	13/05/2021	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	2 Esdras 5:3	808	12,596	15.6	6.1	1 Maccabees 16:14	31/03/2027	08/11/2027	222 Days Behind	15/09/2031
  Koran	6,236	08/11/2022				159	6,236	39.2		114:6	30/06/2023	16/04/2023	(Complete) 75 Days Ahead
  NT	7,954	26/04/2021				498	7,954	16		Revelation 22:21	30/09/2022	06/09/2022	(Complete) 24 Days Ahead
  NT2	7,956	26/12/2022	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	John 8:22	216	3,258	15.1	6.5	1 Corinthians 14:20	31/03/2025	14/10/2025	197 Days Behind	28/04/2026

  
  
• "Allen (David) - The New Testament’s Use of the Jewish Scriptures" (Read / Write, 19.25 hours)
• Bibleworks Greek NT: 1 Corinthians (Read, 4.25 hours)
• Bibleworks Greek NT: Romans (Read, 0.25 hours)
• Bibleworks Hebrew OT: 1 Kings (Read, 2.25 hours)
• Bibleworks Hebrew OT: 2 Samuel (Read, 3.25 hours)
  → See "Bibleworks - Bibleworks: OT & NT" (10 hours)
• "Chapman (Colin) - Whose Promised Land? The Continuing Conflict over Israel and Palestine" (Read, 9.5 hours)
• "Davies (Phil) - The Miracle That Is Israel" (Read / Write, 4.75 hours)
• "Goldberg (David) - This Is Not the Way: Jews, Judaism and Israel" (Read / Write, 8 hours)
• "Jobes (Karen H.) & Silva (Moises) - Invitation to the Septuagint" (Write, 0.75 hours)
• "Lanier (Gregory R.) & Ros (William A.) - Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition - Volume 1" (Read, 4.25 hours)
• "Longenecker (Richard) - Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period" (Write, 2.5 hours)
• "Mansell (Peter) - Analysis of ‘The Ambiguous Oracle: Narrative Configuration in Acts’ by Alan Bale" (Read / Write, 2.25 hours)
• "McIlroy (David) - Abuse within evangelical churches and organisations: Addressing the vulnerabilities" (Read / Write, 3.5 hours)
• "Moyise (Steve) - Was the Birth of Jesus According to Scripture?" (Write, 1.5 hours)
• "Shaw (Graham) - The Cost of Authority: Manipulation and Freedom in the New Testament" (Read / Write, 1 hour)

1. Religion Background - Admin
   • 25Q1 Status Reports (1.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (1.25 hours)
2. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 13.5)
   • Discussions with JW Lady (0.25 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (0.25 hours)
   • Planning & Interaction with Pete, Julie, Sylvia, etc, re Holiday (13.25 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (13.25 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 40.25)
   • 25Q1 Status Reports (1.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (14 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (3.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (18.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bach - Sonatina - Duet Version (0.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Faure - Pavane (4.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Faure - Pavane (Convert to Oboe+Violin) (5.75 hours)
   • MuseScore - Gabriel's Oboe (Convert to Oboe+Violin) (0.75 hours)
   • MuseScore - General - OBT Weekend Organisation (2 hours)
   • MuseScore - Handel - Giullio Cesare (Convert to Oboe+Violin) (2.25 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (15.75 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing (0.25 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing - Offshoots (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (1 hour)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Organisation (1.75 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (1.75 hours)
   • Planning Music with Pete, Julie, Sylvia, etc, re Holiday (3.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (3.25 hours)
2. Music - Aural (Total Hours = 4.25)
   • "Earmaster - Ear Training & Sight-singing" (0.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - John - Handel - Israel in Egypt Concert (4 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (4 hours)
3. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 22)
   • "Morricone (Ennio) - Gabriel's Oboe (Piano Solo Or Oboe/Piano)" (1 hour)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (4.5 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (13.75 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice - Bach Organ Sonata No. 4.II (Andante) (0.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (18.75 hours)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Practice (2.25 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (2.25 hours)
4. Music - Piano
   • "Faber (Nancey) & Faber (Randall) - Faber Piano Adventures: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Lesson Book 1: Spiral Bound" (0.25 hours)
5. Music - Recorder
   • "Practice - Recorder - General Practice" (0.25 hours)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 2 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 38.75)
   • 25Q1 Status Reports (3.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (3.5 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with AK & JMcC (3.25 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP, AK & JMcC (3 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - NICKO Organisation (2.75 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (13.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to Albert (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David P (5.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Angie (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails to Colin (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Entries to ECBA & EBU Competitions (5.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning Tournament Entries (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Set up Milton Keynes BC as Payee (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (21.75 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 62)
   • Bridge - Chelmsford (Albert) (6.5 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU OODGP Swiss Pairs - RealBridge (David P) (13.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Leighton Buzzard - RealBridge (David P) (9 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Albert) (13 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (9.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (David P) (7 hours)
   • Bridge - NICKO Plate - R2 (RealBridge, David P) (3 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (61.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (0.25 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 42)
   • "Bridge - Handle" (5.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Jubilee (Colin) (3.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Albert (7 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Colin (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (17.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Albert (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (4 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (33.5 hours)

1. Chess - Admin (Total Hours = 1.25)
   • 25Q1 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
   • Chess - Chess Clock - Familiarisation (0.75 hours)
     → See "Chess - Admin" (1.25 hours)
2. Chess - Training (Total Hours = 4)
   • BBC: Chess Masters: The Endgame (2 hours)
     → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (2 hours)
   • Chess - Tommy's Chess Puzzles (0.5 hours)
     → See "Chess - Training" (0.5 hours)
   • Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Openings - Model Games (0.75 hours)
     → See "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Openings" (0.75 hours)
   • YouTube: Bobby Fischer's 'Game of the Century' (0.75 hours)
     → See "Chess - Training" (0.75 hours)

• 25Q1 Status Reports (1.75 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (1.75 hours)
• "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (Write, 2.5 hours)
• BBC: Caligula with Mary Beard (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Dan Snow's History List - A History of Auschwitz (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Dan Snow's History List - Rudolf Hoss: The Commandant of Auschwitz (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Dan Snow's History List - The English Civil War: Rising Tensions (Read, 0.5 hours)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Julius Caesar Revealed (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Roman Emperor (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Romans - 1. All Roads Lead to Rome (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Romans - 2. Streetlife (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Meet the Romans - 3. Behind Closed Doors (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 1 (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 2 (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 3 (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Mary Beard - Ultimate Rome - Empire Without Limit - Episode 4 (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Montefiori - Rome: A History of the Eternal City - City of the Sacred (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Montefiori - Rome: A History of the Eternal City - Divine Gamble (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Montefiori - Rome: A History of the Eternal City - Rebirth of God's City (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - Ida Pfeiffer (Read, 0.25 hours)
• BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - Jean Rhys (Read, 0.25 hours)
• BBC: R4 - Human Intelligence - Travellers - Sir Patrick Manson (Read, 0.25 hours)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 1. Come together (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 2. The Age of Iron (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 3. The Greek Thing (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 4. Return of the King (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 5. The Republic of Virtue (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Ancient Worlds: 6. City of Man, City of God (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Archaeology - A Secret History: 1. In the Beginning (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Archaeology - A Secret History: 2. The Search for Civilisation (Read, 1 hour)
• BBC: Richard Miles - Archaeology - A Secret History: 3. The Power of the Past (Read, 1 hour)
• "FT - Five Books - Various Subjects not covered elsewhere" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 0.75 hours)
• "LRB - London Review of Books" (Read, 0.75 hours)
• St John's Quiz (3 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (28.25 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 25Q1 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (0.5 hours)
2. Languages - Thai
   • "Mondly - Learn Thai" (4.25 hours)

• Stirling's approximation (Comments; 0.25 hours)
  → See "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (0.25 hours)
• Veritasium: The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math - Do odd perfect numbers exist? (0.5 hours)
  → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (0.5 hours)

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