posted on 2012-01-05 at 09:30 AM - amd.im/VE60
Above is a graph of my personal email volume between 2004 and 2011. I made it just now after archiving away 2011's mail.
It shouldn't include any work email, or any mailing lists or other junk. Just mail that has been sent to me or from me since March 04.
A couple interesting things, my email usage dropped off significantly in 2007 despite a general upward trend in all other years. I wonder if I lost some mail at some point during transitioning between servers. Also interesting about 2007 is that it had the largest average email size: 129kb. That's about double the overall average since 2004.
Email usage jumped by a huge amount in 2009 when I was traveling and spending approximately 50% of my year abroad and then fell significantly in 2011 when I got a job that keeps me here in the US full time.
For those interested, I created the chart using http://sparklines-bitworking.appspot.com. The constructed url was: http://sparklines-bitworking.appspot.com/spark.cgi?type=impulse&...
amdavidson.com is a simple blog run by Andrew Davidson, a manufacturing engineer with a blogging habit. He sometimes posts 140 character tidbits, shares photos, and saves links. You can also see posts dating back to 2005.