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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 :-)

Yeah, that definitely is rather slick. I'm almost afraid of to do that myself...might expose that I slack all day everyday.

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