]> snarfed.org draw group stream of consciousness Ryan Barrett <snarfed at ryanb dot org> en text/html Copyright 2002-2007 Ryan Barrett bigbrother Ryan Barrett <snarfed at ryanb dot org> 2003-01-01T05:00:00Z en text/html Copyright 2002-2007 Ryan Barrett

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

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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.

Bigbrother is copyright 2003-2004 Ryan Barrett, and is distributed under the GPL. It includes source code from gd, GDChart, and PyGDChart, which are the property of their respective copyright holders.

 http://snarfed.org/ bigbrother-1 ryan cmt_pubDate text/html 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!

http://snarfed.org/ bigbrother Turkeyphant cmt_pubDate text/html 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? http://snarfed.org/ bigbrother Ryan cmt_pubDate text/html 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. http://snarfed.org/ bigbrother Turkeyphant cmt_pubDate text/html Thanks man.  Let me know if installing PyGDChart will sort it for Windows... http://snarfed.org/ bigbrother Ryan cmt_pubDate text/html 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. http://snarfed.org/ bigbrother Turkeyphant cmt_pubDate text/html Great - that works perfectly.  Cheers.