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and in 2007 Paul once again topped the list of people I talk to on aim. One advantage of keeping logs of every aim conversation I have is that I can pull out fun but meaningless statistics and blog about them.

The results from 2007

Rank	Bytes	Name	2006 Rank
1	4261221	Paul	1
2	2088617	Kelly
3	1782259	OSU Paul	7
4	950551	Josh	2
5	871658	Jed	10
6	682480	Beth	3
7	615125	Rob	8
8	294982	Matt	6
9	268387	George	11
10	247025	My Parents	12

Lets compare the 2007 results to the all time list:

Rank	Bytes	Name	2007 Rank
1	14142297	Paul	1
2	9390234	Beth	5
3	4807056	George	9
4	4350718	Josh	4
5	4167148	OSU Paul	3
6	2956684	Matt	8
7	2457418	Kelly	2
8	2282025	Christy
9	2067038	Jessica
10	1839941	My Parents	10

The Moral of this story is that Paul better watch out or least he lose his top spot in 2008. Although, Beth and Paul’s all time placements are not yet in jeopardy everyone else may need to take notice. These are the numbers for the last quarter of 2007:

Rank	Bytes	Name
1	1627836	Kelly
2	1131700	Paul
3	250167	Josh

The last time Paul didn’t take the top prize for a quarter of the year was Q2 (April – June) 2005:

Rank	Bytes	Name
1	843586	Josh
2	701362	George
3	640133	Paul

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the random charts and tables. Making all of this reminds me of the girl’s comment in frame 4 of xkcd 314. Oh and the bash script that grabs all the data (sorry for the bad formating):

match="2007-*"; for f in `ls /home/liryon/.purple/logs/aim/liryon`; do du -scb home/liryon/.purple/logs/aim/liryon/$f/$match | grep total | sed -e "s/total/$f/"; done 2> /dev/null | grep -v aolsystemmsg | sort -n -r | head -n 10

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