Stalking Venus

When I was just a geeky little kid, I once removed all of the drawers from the large dark oak desk that my parents had bought me to use for school work, and strapped the case of our old (then new) PC to the space created by the missing drawers. I punched a rather messy hole in the back panel of the desk behind the drawer space and shoved all of the cables through it, being careful to neatly staple the one for the screen along the back of the desk and up to where I placed the monitor. Then I sneaked the drawers out to my dad’s workshop…

There’s a very nice post on Lifehacker, on how to monitor your email trends (any article that has the words “self-indulgent data-wanking” is almost certainly worth a read!)
Using a new Google tool called Mail Trends, along with Python, you can monitor many aspects of your email usage, such as:

Who mails you the most?
Who do you [...]