September 2007 Spam Count: 2166
September was all about quantity, not quantity in terms of my writings. Just a few articles, but most illustrated with photos - some of which were even loosely related to the topic being discussed. These few posts definitely took more time to write, but the real factor behind the decline in posting frequency is directly related to the fact that I've been busy as heck. I did some math and found that in the fiscal year to date I've racked up more than 10% of the overtime in my group.
Yes, we also deal with detailed statistics at work - are you surprised? It's a CA firm! Accountants love statistics.
My group is comprised of a dozen and a half people, so I'm definitely 'above target.' I'm not complaining though, because my first years I got lucky, and was working on jobs with relatively easy hours, so I can take a few hits in the short term. Besides, my overtime for the past three months is equal to the amount of overtime one of my banker friends pull in 3 or 4 weeks, so life isn't all that bad.
So - last month the number of spams also fell - just 2166, a healthy drop of almost 400 off last month's record.
This lazy little public documentation project continues, because I really wonder - is there any easy way to track these figures? The words September 2007 Spam Count in google do return hits, actually. As does August 2007 Spam Count.
While playing around with google, I found one person who does the same thing, tracking the number of blog comment spam posts trapped and this hint on how to unbold or hide the spam counter in gmail.
Lastly, someone else is running a contest to see the number of spams that would hit - the potential to cheat by spamming the guy arises. Amusing.
Also, three cheers for Firefox: for some strange reason, the program shut down. I may or may not have told it to close. Regardless, it cleverly had everything saved when I re-launched, including this entire draft post. What a relief.