Theo Todman's Web Page - Notes Pages

1. Total Time outstanding this period = 409 hours
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1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 70.25)
   • "De Waal (Frans) - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" (Read, 2.25 hours)
   • "Glaser (Eliane) - Our narrative prison" (Read, 1 hour)
   • "Google DeepMind - The Thinking Game: The inside story of the AI breakthrough that won a Nobel Prize" (Read / Write, 3 hours)
   • "Lennox (John C.) - Oxford Professor Reads the Bible Differently After AI — Here's What He Found" (Read / Write, 1.75 hours)
   • "Ozanne (Charles) - If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15" (Write, 6.25 hours)
   • "Parfit (Derek) - We Are Not Human Beings" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • "Penny (Sylvia) - The Resurrection Chapter: 1 Corinthians 15" (Write, 10.5 hours)
   • "Rawlinson (Nik) - ChatGPT vs The Rest" (Write, 13.25 hours)
   • "RIP - The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Alessandra Tanesini: How We Remember and Forget Online (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Brian Davies: ‘Aquinas On What God Is Not’ (Read, 1 hour)
   • RIP: YouTube - Catherine Wilson: Managing Expectations: The ‘Limits’ Theme in Locke (Read, 0.75 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Kathleen Higgins: Remembering the Dead (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Peter Kail: Hume's 'Manifest Contradictions' (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • RIP: YouTube - Tom Stern: Proust’s Theory of Memory and Knowledge (Read, 1.5 hours)
   • "Sutskever (Ilya) - Ex-OpenAI Scientist Ilya Sutskever WARNS: 'You Have No Idea What's Coming'" (Read / Write, 1.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Resurrection" (Write, 10.5 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15" (Write, 2.25 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)" (Write, 4.75 hours)
   • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Current Position" (Write, 3.75 hours)
   • "Wooldridge (Michael John) - This is not the AI we were promised" (Write, 0.5 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - Shadows, Souls and Where They Go: Life Beyond Death in Ancient Paganism" (Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Wright (N.T.) - The Target and the Arrows" (Read, 0.5 hours)
   • "Zickgraf (Ryan) - The AI jobs-apocalypse is here: Prepare for the laptop-class revolt" (Write, 2.5 hours)
2. Thesis - Discussions
   • Interaction with Julie, Pete, Caro, Mike, Sylvia, Nev, Hazel, Willie & Gill on Holiday (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (2.5 hours)
3. Thesis - Research Repositioning
   • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (1 hour)

1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 2)
   • "Grossman (Vasily) - Life and Fate" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
   • "Spencer (Nick) - Darwin and God" (Write, 1 hour)
2. Thesis Background - Status
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (2.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (2.5 hours)

1. Website - Bridge Development (Total Hours = 27)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Add Dave T to NGS Capture (2.25 hours)
   • Software Development - Bridge Database - Revive Essex & Add Herts & Beds for NGS Capture (24.75 hours)
     → See "Software Development - Website - Development" (27 hours)
2. Website - Bridge Maintenance
   • Bridge - Website - Results Database Maintenance (4.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (4.75 hours)
3. Website - Education
   • "PC Pro - Computing in the Real World" (2.75 hours)
4. Website - Infrastructure (Total Hours = 5.25)
   • Develop & maintain procedures for junking US Healthcare spam (1.25 hours)
   • Fitbit - Reviewing Fitbit Premium re renewal or cancellation (0.25 hours)
   • iPhone Cables (0.25 hours)
   • Julie's Laptop - Sundry troubleshooting (1.25 hours)
   • Microsoft Windows & MS Office - Releases, Bugs & Periodic Re-boots (1.25 hours)
   • PC Backups / OneDrive (1 hour)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (5.25 hours)
5. Website - Maintenance (Total Hours = 3.25)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (1.25 hours)
   • Website - PID Note, Book & Paper Usage¹⁰ Improvements (1.5 hours)
   • Website - Periodic Full Regeneration (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Website - Admin & Maintenance" (3.25 hours)

1. Website Others - Mayflower DBC Maintenance (Total Hours = 4.25)
   • "Admin - Mayflower Website - Admin & Maintenance" (0.5 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - EBUScore & BridgeMate Control Software - Individual Tournament Set-up (2.5 hours)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Install Bridge Timer (1 hour)
   • Mayflower Scoring Laptop - Windows Updates (0.25 hours)
2. 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	16/06/2030	532 Days Behind	12/05/2035
  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	15/10/2028	564 Days Behind	19/10/2032
  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	21/09/2026	539 Days Behind	23/03/2027

  
  
• Kenneth Stewart - Kenneth Stewart - Death swallowed - Sermon 1 (Read / Write, 2.75 hours)
• Kenneth Stewart - Kenneth Stewart - Death swallowed - Sermon 2 (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
• Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons - Samson - Reply to Jack H (Write, 1 hour)
  → See "Stewart (Kenneth) - Sermons" (5.25 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - 1 Corinthians: 15" (Read, 1 hour)
• "Wright (N.T.) - General Issues in the Easter Stories" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Hope in Person: Jesus as Messiah and Lord" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Hope Refocused (3): Non-Canonical Early Christian Texts" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Corinth (1): Introduction" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Corinth (2): The Key Passages" (Read, 0.5 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Resurrection in Paul (Outside the Corinthian Correspondence)" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Time to Wake Up (1): Death and Beyond in the Old Testament" (Read, 0.25 hours)
• "Wright (N.T.) - Time to Wake Up (2): Hope Beyond Death in Post-Biblical Judaism" (Read, 0.25 hours)

1. Religion Background - Reading / Writing
   • Pete's Workshop on the Structure of Acts - Pre-reading (Read, 0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (0.75 hours)
2. Religion Background - Admin (Total Hours = 8)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • OBT Weekend Preparation & Admin (7.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Religion - Admin" (8 hours)
3. Religion Background - Discussions (Total Hours = 20)
   • Interaction with Julie, Pete, Caro, Mike, Sylvia, Nev, Hazel, Willie & Gill on Holiday (18.75 hours)
   • Pete re Ascention versus 'taking up' (1.25 hours)
     → See "Interaction - Discussions with Pete" (20 hours)

1. Music - Administration (Total Hours = 33)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble - Admin (12.25 hours)
   • Enigma Ensemble: Travel, Lunch, Interaction (3.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (16.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - Bach - Air on a G String (2.5 hours)
   • MuseScore - OBT Oboe-Violin Duets (3 hours)
   • MuseScore - Water Music - Sax (2.5 hours)
     → See "Todman (Theo) - Music Score OCR & Editing Software - Selection & Use" (8 hours)
   • Music Copying / Filing (0.5 hours)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Organisation (2.5 hours)
   • Opera - Carmen (5.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Music - Administration" (8.5 hours)
2. Music - Oboe (Total Hours = 20)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble (4 hours)
   • Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Practice (6.5 hours)
   • OBT Weekend - Oboe / Violin Duets - Practice (9.5 hours)
     → See "Practice - Oboe - Enigma Ensemble - Playing & Practice" (20 hours)
3. Music - Recorder
   • "Practice - Recorder - General Practice" (0.25 hours)

1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
   • "Reading - Bridge - Magazines" (Read, 1.75 hours)
2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 49)
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (2.75 hours)
   • Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall (MVH) Trusteeship (5.25 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Mountnessing Village Hall Trusteeship" (5.25 hours)
   • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP, AK & TC (3.5 hours)
   • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (33.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to Colin (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David Tennet (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - MK Payments (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU & ECBA Sessions for 2026 (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Planning EBU Sessions with Dave T (0.25 hours)
   • DP Bridge Party - Meal & Socialising (2 hours)
   • Wallingford EBED Results upload mess-up (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (7.25 hours)
3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 69)
   • Bridge - DP Bridge Party (6.75 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU National Pairs Final - RealBridge (Dave T) (12 hours)
   • Bridge - EBU OODGP Swiss Pairs - RealBridge (Dave T) (6.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (16.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Mayflower (David Tennet) (3.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Milton Keynes - RealBridge (Dave T) (24.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (69 hours)
4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 48.5)
   • "Bridge - Handle" (13.75 hours)
   • Bridge - PlayMyBoard (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - Dave T (15.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (4.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - David Tennet (1 hour)
   • Bridge - Session Reviews - DP Bridge Party (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (0.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - Dave T (4.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (5.25 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Review - David Tennet (1.75 hours)
   • Bridge - Systems Reviews - DP Bridge Party (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (34.75 hours)

• 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (0.75 hours)
• "Bearman (Robert) - Stoneleigh Abbey: The House, Its Owners, Its Lands" (Read / Write, 7.25 hours)
• "LPOC - Listed Heritage: The Listed Property Owners' Club Magazine" (Read, 1.75 hours)
• OBT Murder Mystery (3 hours)
• OBT Quiz (2 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (5 hours)
• "O'Sullivan (Maurice), Forster (E.M.) - Twenty Years A-Growing" (Read / Write, 12.75 hours)
• Reply to King's re Frank Greaney (Write, 0.5 hours)
• St John's Quiz (3.5 hours)
  → See "Admin - General Culture - Admin" (4 hours)
• "Todman (Theo) - Investigating Housing Developments near Coxes Farm" (Write, 0.25 hours)

1. Languages - Admin
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
     → See "Admin - Languages - Admin" (0.5 hours)
2. Languages - Greek (Classical)
   • "Wenham (John) - The Elements of New Testament Greek" (0.25 hours)
3. Languages - Hebrew (Classical)
   • "Lambdin (Thomas) - Introduction to Biblical Hebrew" (0.25 hours)

• Chess - Chess Dot Com - Puzzles (1 hour)
  → See "Chess - Chess dot Com" (1 hour)

1. Mathematics - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 14)
   • Becky's Loan Calculations (0.5 hours)
   • Bridge: NGS Sopp & SOF calculations / reconciliation (2.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (3.25 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - A Potpourri of Questions and Attempted Answers" (2.5 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Logicism: Is Mathematics (Just) Logic?" (3.5 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Near Opposites: Kant and Mill" (2.75 hours)
   • "Shapiro (Stewart) - Plato's Rationalism, and Aristotle" (2 hours)
2. Mathematics - Admin
   • 26Q1 Status Reports (0.75 hours)
     → See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (0.75 hours)

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