Where the Time Goes

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Here’s a typical day:

Time Activity
0:15 Clear overnight mail/blogs/Twitter
0:15 Organize Software Carpentry tutorials
Set up mailing lists for Edmonton and UBC workshop participants
Set up Doodles to find tutorial times
Mail people about rooms, the Doodle, etc.
1:00 Paper about recommended practices in computational science
Read/edit overnight commits
Rearrange introduction
0:15 Mail/blogs/Twitter catch-up
0:30 Write ground rules for contributing to our next collaborative book
0:30 Lunch
1:00 Fill in missing examples for Subversion chapter of Software Carpentry book
0:45 Fill in missing examples for testing chapter of Software Carpentry book
1:00 Edit the next edition of And Then…
0:15 Coffee
0:15 Mail/blogs/Twitter catch-up
0:15 More edits to paper about recommended practices in computational science
0:45 Read papers from ICSE 2012


6:15 Total (not including lunch and coffee)