Procrastinating in Ruby is Delicious
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As I was bookmarking something on del.icio.us today, I noticed the dates on which I had bookmarked the last couple of times and wondered if there was any correlation between frequency and day of the week. So, I downloaded a summary using https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all? and whipped up a little ruby script to compile some statistics:
Wednesday = 41 Tuesday = 39 Thursday = 37 Friday = 32 Monday = 26 Saturday = 24 Sunday = 12
Looks like Wednesday is the biggest day for bookmarking—also known as procrastinating—and what do you know? Today is...Wednesday!
So then I thought I'd see if there was anything interesting in the time of day:
12 = 26 13 = 20 4 = 17 22 = 15 0 = 14 23 = 12 5 = 12 2 = 12 20 = 10 11 = 10 1 = 10 7 = 10 3 = 9 6 = 7 21 = 7 9 = 6 15 = 4 14 = 3 8 = 3 10 = 2 19 = 2
Phew! Most of my bookmarking is done around lunchtime although an awful lot were done at 4am!
Comments
That's slick :-)
Posted by: Ted | September 13, 2006 11:52 PM
Yeah, that definitely is rather slick. I'm almost afraid of to do that myself...might expose that I slack all day everyday.
Posted by: Tiffani | October 15, 2006 06:25 PM