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

[10] http://daytum.com/balaji

[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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