An archive of some of the data I have recorded about how I spend some of my time.

Total hours worked per month

2025

Histogram of total hours worked per month for 2021 to 2025

2024

Histogram of total hours worked per month for 2020 to 2024

2023

Histogram of total hours worked per month for 2019 to 2023

2022

Histogram of total hours worked per month for 2018 to 2022

Percent of logged hours

2025

Stacked bar chart of percentage of work hours each month dedicated to Administration, Podcasting and Writing

2024

Stacked bar chart of percentage of work hours each month dedicated to Administration, Podcasting and Writing

2023

Stacked bar chart of percentage of work hours each month dedicated to Administration, Podcasting and Writing

2022

Stacked bar chart of percentage of work hours each month dedicated to Administration and Podcasting

2021

Stacked bar chart of percentage of work hours each month dedicated to Administration and Podcasting

2020

Stacked bar chart of percentage of work hours each month dedicated to Administration and Podcasting

2019

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Lots of people are far more diligent than I am about recording, critiquing, and sharing the various things they read, watched, litened to etc. over the previous year. I thank them for their service and enjoy reading their posts and, sometimes, following some of their recommendations.

Having just u...

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A crowd of demonstrators under a banner that reads Lotta continua. The photo was taken in Florence in 1970.

A demonstration in Florence, 1970

The story so far: WithKnown lost my images, and my previous experience was not as helpful as I hoped. Back to the blow-by-blow troubleshooting.

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Good news and bad on The Great Migration.

Good, I successfully moved my WithKnown instance to its new home at Hetzner. Bad, I had to dig deep to find out why it was looking for the wrong CSS stylesheet, and I still have not managed to connect any of the older entries to their images. This is what I have discovered so far in the hunt for images.

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I was having lunch with a friend and colleague at a highly rated local tavola calda. I expressed some sadness that although the food was wonderful, each of us was generating a small mountain of waste plastic -- plates, cutlery, cups, everything. My friend informed me that in 2019 the EU had implemen...

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