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AIM Away Message Voyeurism

Generated by bigbrother 0.5.1. Last updated Tue Aug 8 03:04:26 2006.

In the spirit of George Orwell's 1984, I've been logging my AIM away messages for a while. Now that I have a record of them, I want to use them to see how I spend my time. How much sleep do I really get? Do I work different hours on different days of the week? Do I always wake up after noon on the weekends? (Uh, don't answer that.)

These are recalculated each night at midnight, so what you're seeing is up to date. You can also see the raw data, but it's not very interesting. Instead, check out the graphs. They have pretty colors!

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Contents

Lengths
Layered Graphs
Average Lengths
Frequencies
24-hour Graphs
7-day Graphs


Lengths

This shows the total amount of time that has been spent on each away message.

lengths by away message

You can also see lengths for all away messages.

Layered Graphs

These are layered graphs, one for weekdays and one for weekends. They show the most common away messages, and when they're used, all in the same graph.

Weekdays

Key: working asleep wandering around out coding

layered graph of weekdays
Weekends

Key: asleep wandering around out working coding

layered graph of weekends

Averages

This shows the average duration of each of the away messages. The y axis is measured in hours.

average duration of each away message

You can also see average durations for all away messages.

Frequencies

This shows the frequency of each away message. The y axis shows the number of times that each away message has been turned on.

frequency of each away message

You can also see frequencies for all away messages.

24-hour Graphs

These are probability distributions over the 24 hours of the day, one for each away message. They show the times of the day when each away message is most likely to be on. The x axis is the time of day, and the y axis is the number of times that away message has been on at that time of day.

asleep
asleep.png
working
working.png
wandering around
wandering_around.png
out
out.png
coding
coding.png
at dinner
at_dinner.png
in a meeting
in_a_meeting.png
on the train
on_the_train.png
Online
Online.png
at the gym
at_the_gym.png
running
running.png
playing a game
playing_a_game.png
running errands
running_errands.png
at lunch
at_lunch.png
watching tv
watching_tv.png
on the phone
on_the_phone.png
watching a movie
watching_a_movie.png
on the shuttle
on_the_shuttle.png
at home
at_home.png
reading
reading.png

7-day Graphs

These are probability distributions over the 7 days of the week for a few away messages. For each away message, they show on which days of the week that away message is most likely to be on. The x axis is the day of the week, and the y axis is the number of hours the away message has been on during that day.

asleep
week_asleep.png
working
week_working.png
wandering around
week_wandering_around.png
out
week_out.png
coding
week_coding.png
at dinner
week_at_dinner.png

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