W10/2025: Monday 03 March - Sunday 09 March 2025 Work Figure out how to learn Japanese (and Thai), put together basic outline of what is needed, what is different Produce IPA comparisons between English and Thai, English and Japanese, Japanese and Thai Tech Need to get serious about getting RSS feeds organized and in an ... Read more
W09/2025: Monday 24 February - Sunday 02 March 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Tech Still figuring out how to de-DRM Kobo and/or Nook, so that I do have somewhere to buy ebooks, that I can read on my ebook reader (currently a Kindle Paperwhite 2018), and store as ... Read more
W08/2025: Monday 17 February - Sunday 23 February 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Not much accomplished, sadly, not unexpectedly. Tech Still finishing up rebuilding my Debian 12 Stable desktop. In love with all the open source (and a few proprietary) apps I use. Great article on reforming ... Read more
W07/2025: Monday 10 February - Sunday 16 February 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Some progress, though much left to do. Tech EMF blocking clothing? Great idea. Horrible prices. The venerable Kiwi Browser is no longer getting updates, and it is no longer in the Android store (though ... Read more
Week 06/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Started changing metadata and organizational information across distributors. First things first, one at a time (Drucker, Effective Executive). Bookshop.org now has ebook distribution, and a 10% affiliate program. Health Feeling better, ramping up activity Able to run 3.5 kms at a ... Read more
Week 05/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Actually this note also accounts for the previous week, which is without a note. Four things impacted me at once which took away most motivation and a lot of energy and inertia, and it took a week to get back in the ... Read more
No notes this week, see Weekly Notes 02 Feb 2025
Week 02/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Stalled on a number of things. Did a one trick thing that worked again and quadrupled sales. It won't last but handy nonetheless. Health Better mental health through tidying and doing spring cleaning (ongoing, and progressing). Doing things I can control. ... Read more
Week 02/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work To be honest, too many outstanding issues for both research and implementation. I have corralled all the scattered notes (e- and p- based) and am compiling and compressing them into something actionable. The week as the unit of effort makes much ... Read more
Week 01/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Well, we publish this first weekly note two days late, hopefully not a harbinger. Work To be honest, too many outstanding issues for both research and implementation. I have corralled all the scattered notes (e- and p- based) and am compiling and ... Read more
This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Correcting some basic accounting issues. We keep making mistakes and need better QA. Using Antennapod, to try and better understand podcasts, which I don't really like or can get into. I do read a lot, for work and pleasure, and this still-growing publishing ... Read more
This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Lot of research into the audiobook market, something I let slip over the past x months. Turns out this is still a fast-growing segment of the publishing industry (~27%). Need to finish this up! Health Started up the daily jogging, including my eldest ... Read more
This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Lot of research into the audiobook market, something I let slip over the past x months. Turns out this is still a fast-growing segment of the publishing industry (~27%) Health Overall the family is fairly healthy, in the 90% range or so. I ... Read more
This is the continuation of weekly notes. Not sure how long this project will last, but want to give it a try, as per Thej. Work Little progress on the work front. Will have to projectize some tasks and then get it done. Some larger orders accommodated, and some on the Shopee platform, which is ... Read more
This is the start of weekly notes. Not sure how long this project will last, but want to give it a try, as per Thej. Work Little progress on the work front. Will have to projectize some tasks and then get it done. Health Generally getting over the cold that I had last week, but ... Read more