2008 – The Year in Stats
Work
- Email – 4197 received, 720 sent (that’s 5.82 mails recd. for every 1 email sent)
- Projects Completed – 4
- Projects Completed that came back to life – 1
- Projects Kicked off – 1
IRL
- Apartments I’ve stayed in – 2
- Cities I visited this year – Taipei, Port Dickson [1]
- Efficiency Score of -.07 during Workday Workhours [8]
Will put a little more in this category next year.
Geek Life
- Hardware Purchased – Samsung i600, Holux GPSlim 236, Samsung F480, HP 2133 UMPC
- Email - 7655 received,222 sent (that’s 34.48 mails recd. for every 1 email sent)
- 177 Photos shot
- 60 photos published [2] (58 photos published in 2007 [3])
- 630 songs added to iTunes in 2008
- 34 Artists listened to [4]
- 266 Tracks listened to (including repeats) [4]
- 57 new passwords added to Roboform
- Blog posts jotted in Evernote but not written up – 10
- 42 books read in 2008 [5]
- 36 new Windows programs installed
- Operating systems learnt – Ubuntu, CentOS
Internet Life
- 20 blog posts [6]
- 457 linkblog posts
- 2728 Tweets (incl. @ messages but not DMs) [7]
- Feeds added to my Feed Reader – 211
- 237 hours of FeedDemon making it my most used app [8]
- 47% of my total time was spent on the Top 10 Apps/Sites I used last year [8]
- 3577 searches made on Google with a max. of 785 searches during August 2008 [9]
- Amazon S3 Usage – Transfer-In 3.23 GB, Transfer-Out 3.52 GB, Get-Object Calls 782949, Put-Object Calls 58432 [11]
- Lifetime uTorrent Stats as of end-2008: Uploaded 72.4 GB, Downloaded 57.8 GB, Share Ratio 1.253
Incomplete
- PC Games I’ve Played – Company of Heroes, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Spore, The Witcher *, Europa Universalis III, Mass Effect
- Most common work-day lunch – Indian Meal (8 times of the 68 days tracked) [10]
- 58% of the 68 lunches I tracked last year were from my Top 10 lunch choices. [10]
- Mobile data usage – 340.56 MB [10]
- Alcoholic Drink that I drank the most of – Stella Artois (8.5 Pints) [10]
- 10 different types of drinks Overall [10]
- Most Common Shirt Colour I work to work – Blue/White (Tie) [10]
Not Really Stats
- Site/service that I miss most – Google Browser Sync
- Site/service I wish would get it’s act together – Weave
- Most disappointed this year by – Anobii
- Favorite new site of 2008 – daytum
References:
[1] http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/mvbalaji/
[2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvbalaji/archives/date-posted/2008/
[3] http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008/01/20/a-year-of-living-comfortably-2007-in-photos/
[4] http://www.last.fm/user/balaji_dutt/charts
[5] http://www.bookjetty.com/people/balaji_dutt
[6] http://blog.balaji-dutt.name/2008
[7] http://tweetstats.com/graphs/balaji_dutt
[8] http://www.rescuetime.com/
[9] http://www.google.com/history/trends?all=year&hl=en
[11] https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html
Other Notes:
1. FriendFeed doesn’t any easy way to get yearly stats, so no info on Comments/Likes there.
2. The Witcher was far and away, the best game I played in 2008 and that’s why it’s starred.
3. A bunch of stuff in the “Incomplete” category will fall under IRL next year, but if you have any other ideas for things I could track in “Work” or “IRL”, let me know.
I’ll be posting a more qualitative look back at 2008 and what it means for my plans in the year ahead.
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on January 5, 2009 at 5:51 pm Ashwin Nanjappa wrote:
Wow, that’s some scarily detailed stats!
Envious of your books-read count. But, you need to take more photos in 2009!
on January 5, 2009 at 6:31 pm Balaji wrote:
Ashwin: If plans work out, I expect that by the mid of this year you should see of a burst of photography
*fingers crossed*!
on January 5, 2009 at 6:32 pm Ashwin Nanjappa wrote:
New phototaking gadget or travel?
on January 6, 2009 at 9:51 am Balaji wrote:
Ashwin: a bit of both hopefully