Theo Todman's Web Page - Notes Pages

1. Total Time outstanding this period = 446 hours
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1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 78)
   • "Bailey (Andrew M.) - The Elimination Argument" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • BBC, Dan Everett: BBC: The missionary who learned a language but lost his faith (Read, 1 hour)
   • "BBC, Fraser (Giles), Etc - Beyond Belief: New Atheism" (Read / Write, 16.5 hours)
   • "Brumer (Leah) - Atheism’s New Clothes" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Chivers (Tom) - Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World" (Read, 9.5 hours)
   • "Craig (William Lane) - God, Time, and Eternity" (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • "Enfield (Edward) - Old Age and How to Survive It" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Everett (Daniel) - An Anthropologist Contemplates Chomsky" (Read / Write, 9.5 hours)
   • "Everett (Daniel) - Converting the Missionary" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Everett (Daniel) - Don't Sleep There are Snakes: Life" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Glass (David) - Atheism's new clothes" (Write, 4.5 hours)
   • "Grayling (Anthony) - The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism" (Read / Write, 3.75 hours)
   • "Hudson (Hud) - I am Not an Animal!" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Kim (Jaegwon) - The Mind-Body Problem: Where We Now Are" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Loose (Jonathan), Menuge (Angus) & Moreland (J.P.) - Substance Dualism and Its Physicalist Rivals" (Read / Write, 6 hours)
   • "Putnam (Hilary) - Minds and Machines" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Ramakrishnan (Venki) - Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Rutherford (Adam) - How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality" (Read / Write, 3.75 hours)
   • "Spencer (Nick) - Where Darwin fears to tread" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Spinney (Laura) - Proto: A New History of Our Ancient Past" (Read, 1 hour)
   • "Swinburne (Richard) - Are We Bodies or Souls?" (Write, 4 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Poverty of Stimulus Arguments" (Write, 7.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Animalism" (Write, 0.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Animalism - Arguments For" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Animalism - Objections" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Animalists" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Ward (Keith) - The Bad Argument: Review of A.C. Grayling's 'The God Argument'" (Write, 0.5 hours)
2. Thesis - Research Repositioning (Total Hours = 3.75)
   • "Admin - Catalogue Papers and Books (including Abstract improvements)" (0.5 hours)
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Oct - Dec)" (2.5 hours)
   • Investigating Loom: Life Manager (0.75 hours)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing
   • "Grossman (Vasily) - Life and Fate" (Read, 9 hours)
2. Thesis Background - Status
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Thesis (4.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (Oct - Dec)" (4.5 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Development (Total Hours = 0.75)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Bridgewebs ref change (bwoi to bwor) (0.5 hours)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Minor NGS Improvements (0.25 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (0.75 hours)
2. Website - Bridge Maintenance (Total Hours = 4.75)
   • Bridge - DP's RealBridge no-sound problem (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (4.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (4.75 hours)
3. Website - Development (Total Hours = 11.5)
   • Website - Generator - Timeline software¹⁰: Coxes Farm - Photos of New Cracks (8.5 hours)
   • Website - Generator - Streamline Daily Processing (3 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (11.5 hours)
4. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (1.75 hours)
5. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 5.75)
   • EE Broadband: Cancel 4G (0.75 hours)
   • iPhone - Torch & passcode issues (0.25 hours)
   • iPhone Cables (0.25 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows & MS Office - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (1.25 hours)
   • Namesco - Re HTTPS/SSL (3 hours)
   • Upgrade PHP Version on theotodman.com (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (5.75 hours)
6. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 2.5)
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Website (2 hours)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (2.5 hours)

1. Website Others - Enigma Ensemble
   • Admin - Enigma Ensemble Website - Development, Admin & Maintenance (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Enigma Ensemble Website - Creation, Admin & Maintenance" (0.75 hours)
2. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 1)
   • "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (0.5 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - EBUScore & BridgeMate Control Software - Individual Tournament Set-up (0.5 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.
• As of the beginning of August 2025, this project is in abeyance (again). I've decided to enhance my grammatical knowledge of Greek and Hebrew before proceding further.
• The table below has been corrected to reflect the second intermission. The Revised End Date is calculated as 'today' plus the amount of time needed to complete the tasks at the rate achieved during the second period of activity. Hence, it will advance by one day a day until I restart.
• The explanation after the first intermission is as below.
  1. I'm on my first pass through the OT & LXX and my second pass through the NT.
  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.
• I've also read through the Koran, but mostly in English. One day I'll try to read the Koran in Arabic, maybe. Progress on this, and on my first run-through of the NT, is recorded in versions of this report prior to 25Q3.
  

  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	4.2	1 Kings 10:22	31/12/2028	13/12/2030	712 Days Behind	08/11/2035
  LXX	28,986	13/05/2021	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	2 Esdras 5:3	808	12,596	15.6	5.9	2 Maccabees 10:5	31/03/2027	13/04/2029	744 Days Behind	17/04/2033
  NT2	7,956	26/12/2022	30/07/2023	05/05/2024	John 8:22	216	3,258	15.1	6.2	2 Corinthians 12:6	31/03/2025	20/03/2027	719 Days Behind	19/09/2027

  
  
• "Fudge (Edward William) - The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment" (Read, 4.25 hours)
• "Stuhlmacher (Peter) & Janowski (Bernd), Eds. - The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources: Preface" (Read, 0.5 hours)

1. Religion Background - Admin (Total Hours = 3.25)
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Religion (1.75 hours)
   • Ted's Funeral + Wake (1.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (3.25 hours)
2. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 9.25)
   • Discussions with Pete, Caro & Julie (4 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (4 hours)
   • Interaction - Discussions with Mike, Sylvia & Julie (2 hours)
   • Ted's Funeral + Wake (3 hours)
   • YouTube video on the Kaaba & Hajj (0.25 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Religion - Discussions" (5.25 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 24.75)
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Music (1.5 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (16 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (3 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (20.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bach - Minuet in G - Piano Part (0.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bizet - Arlesienne - Farandole (2.75 hours)
   • MuseScore - Karl Jenkins - Palladio (0.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (0.5 hours)
2. Music - Aural
   • "Earmaster - Ear Training & Sight-singing" (0.25 hours)
3. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 14.75)
   • Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe - 'Jauntless Jig' (0.25 hours)
     → See "Mower (Mike) - The Good Tempered Oboe" (0.25 hours)
   • Nielsen (Carl) - Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2 for Oboe and Piano: Humoresque (0.25 hours)
   • Nielsen (Carl) - Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2 for Oboe and Piano: Romanze (0.25 hours)
     → See "Nielsen (Carl) - Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2" (0.5 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (4.5 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (8.25 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice - Bach Organ Sonata No. 4.II (Andante) (0.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (13.25 hours)
   • Saint-Saens (Camille) - Sonata Op.166 in D Major for Oboe & Piano - 1st Movement (0.25 hours)
   • Saint-Saens (Camille) - Sonata Op.166 in D Major for Oboe & Piano - 2nd Movement (0.25 hours)
   • Saint-Saens (Camille) - Sonata Op.166 in D Major for Oboe & Piano - 3rd Movement (0.25 hours)
     → See "Saint-Saens (Camille) - Sonata Op.166 in D Major for Oboe & Piano" (0.75 hours)
4. Music - Piano
   • "Faber (Nancey) & Faber (Randall) - Faber Piano Adventures: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Lesson Book 1: Spiral Bound" (1 hour)
5. Music - Recorder
   • "Priestley (Edmund) & Fowler (Fred) - The School Recorder Book: Part 1" (1.75 hours)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 1.25 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 46.25)
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Bridge (5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (5 hours)
   • Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall (MVH) Trusteeship (1.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall Trusteeship" (1.75 hours)
   • Admin - David P - Sort RealBridge Audio (0.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (0.25 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Crockfords Organisation (7.75 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - NICKO Organisation (6.5 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (8.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning CiN SIMS Sessions with Dave T, Etc. (2.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU & ECBA Sessions for 2026 (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU Sessions with Dave T (0.75 hours)
   • Bridge Database - Maintain Essex, Herts & Beds, etc NGS Capture for MK (13.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (30.75 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 48.75)
   • Bridge - Cumbria - RealBridge (Dave T) (4.75 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU OODGP Swiss Pairs - RealBridge (Dave T) (5.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Colin) (9.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (9.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (Paul S) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (Dave T) (16.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (48.75 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 39.5)
   • "Bridge - Handle" (12.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Colin (2.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Dave T (11.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (3 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Paul S (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (1.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin - CC Update (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T (3.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T - CC Update (1.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (1.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (26.75 hours)

• 26Q3 Status Reports: General Culture (1.25 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (1.25 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:1 (Read, 0.75 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:2 (Read, 0.75 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:3 (Read, 0.75 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:4 (Read, 0.75 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:5 (Read, 0.75 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 2:6 (Read, 0.75 hours)
• BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts: Magpie Murders 3:1 (Read, 0.75 hours)
  → See "BBC - Miscellaneous iPlayer and Podcasts" (5.25 hours)
• Discussions with Pete (2 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (2 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 1.75 hours)
• "O'Sullivan (Maurice), Forster (E.M.) - Twenty Years A-Growing" (Read / Write, 4.25 hours)
• Play - The Other Side Of Murder (5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (5 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Housing Developments near Coxes Farm" (Write, 0.25 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Problems & Developments at Coxes Farm" (14.75 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Languages (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (1 hour)
2. Languages - Greek (Classical)
   • "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek" (0.75 hours)
3. Languages - Hebrew (Classical)
   • "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" (0.75 hours)

1. Chess - Admin
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Chess (1 hour)
     → See "Chess - Admin" (1 hour)
2. Chess - Training (Total Hours = 5)
   • Chess - Chess Dot Com - Puzzles (4.5 hours)
     → See "Chess - Chess dot Com" (4.5 hours)
   • Chess - Training Tommy, Lili & Nia (0.5 hours)
     → See "Chess - Training" (0.5 hours)

1. Mathematics - Reading / Writing
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Intuitionism: Is Something Wrong with Our Logic?" (0.5 hours)
2. Mathematics - Admin
   • 26Q3 Status Reports: Mathematics (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (0.5 hours)

• 26Q3 Status Reports: HiQ (0.5 hours)
  → See "ISPE - HiQ Societies - ISPE" (0.5 hours)
• "Wiener (Norbert) - Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth" (2 hours)

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