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bigbrother

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 [comments (7)] [history] [rdf] [raw]

For the impatient:
Download bigbrother 0.5.1
Example page
Gaim web site

Bigbrother is a program that calculates statistics about your away message history. It parses a log file of all of the away messages you've used, then generates a report with graphs about when and how often you do different things, based on your away message history. It's best described by example.

Bigbrother has two parts: a Gaim plugin which logs your away messages, and an analyzer which crunches the logs and generates a report.

The Gaim plugin requires Gaim .68 or higher and Perl 5.004 or higher. The analyzer requires Python 2.2 or higher.

ryan, Mon 17 Jul 2006

I've just discovered Erik Benson's Morale-O-Meter. It's similar to bigbrother in some ways, but different and better in many others. It's also much easier to try out. Give it a spin!

Turkeyphant, Sun 10 Jun 2007

Love the idea of this tool, but I'm having difficulties getting it to work. On Windows XP (sorry) and running Python 2.5.1 I get the following error message when attempting to analyse your sample log file:

turkeyphant@rowla bigbrother-0.5.1>
$ bigbrother.py away.log
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bigbrother.py", line 60, in <module>
import graph
File "graph.py", line 29, in <module>
import gdchart
ImportError: No module named gdchart

Any ideas?

Ryan, Sun 10 Jun 2007

glad you're interested! the problem is that bigbrother uses PyGDChart, which is a thin wrapper around gdchart, a C library. i include a prebuilt gdchart binary in the tarball, but it's a linux shared library. you need a windows build.

luckily, the PyGDChart site includes a windows build. i'll give it a shot later today and see if it works.

Turkeyphant, Mon 11 Jun 2007

Thanks man. Let me know if installing PyGDChart will sort it for Windows...

Ryan, Mon 11 Jun 2007

yup, the windows build works, with python 2.3.5 (not 2.4 or 2.5). unzip it, put gdchart.pyd in the bigbrother directory, and you should be good to go.

Turkeyphant, Mon 11 Jun 2007

Great - that works perfectly. Cheers.

ryan, Sat 11 Apr 2009

just noticed another app in the same vein: Life Log. from the site:

What were you doing ten years ago today? You would know if you used Life Log. Log your life, your work, or take meeting notes. It even works as shared clipboard across computers.

plus it runs on my project, app engine!