End of year blog summary

I always mean to analyse what I blog about over the year, but never get round to it.

Well I finally have by downloading a single page html for the year of 2011.

Using some perl to extract the categories into the form Label->Frequency

Finally a short gnuplot script to do a histogram (this is very simple and I'm sure could be improved):

set style data histograms
set style fill solid 1.0 border -1
set xtics rotate
set term png
set output "barchart.png"
plot 'cats.txt' using 2:xticlabels(1) title 'categories'

Giving a png file that is here to given the categories.

20 Posts in a Month!

A blog record, 20 posts in a month. Of course if I am to make 150 in a year then this is really making up for the first few months of this year.

Probably a little too high a target, means a post every 2.5 days compared to 3 of last year.

Also posts like this to make up the numbers are probably dubious, but I thought this was worth mentioning.