I’m working on a metrics project and have been collecting info about myself as stub data (certainly not the world’s most interesting topic, but a free input stream). I have a base set of questions already, but am hunting for more.

Most of the obvious sources (Flickr/Twitter/Mint/GMail/anything else with a private beta and life-stream) give off “free” data, so I am looking for datapoints that I’ll need to track myself. So far I am logging stuff like mood/stress level, physical activity, ethical decisions, cooking habits. The weirder crap. The stuff that I hope will lend itself to interesting analysis in 12 months time.

If you could look back on a year in your life, what questions would you be interested in asking yourself?

thanks gdocs

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By jamesv | Posted in creepy, metrics | Comments (5)

Someone asked me to open the source for a Flickr widget we have running at the office. So here it is:

Download the code

Flickr Scattered Photo Widget - rev4

or build your own copy from my Google Code repo

jamesv -+- flash-classes --- org -+- json --- JSON.as
        |                         |
        |                         +- jamesv -+- apis --- Flickr.as
        |                                    +- utils --- Core.as
        |                                    +- widgets --- FlickrPhotoScatter.as
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        +- flash-source --- widgets --- flickr_photo_scatter -+- flickr_photo_scatter.fla
                                                              +- flickr_photo_scatter.swf
                                                              +- manifest.txt
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By jamesv | Posted in flickr, freebie, how to, code, flash | Comments (2)