Tracking Health With Bash

So while I was in hospital they talked about "markers" as a way of monitoring how I was doing, these included my temperature and various data obtained from blood tests. Not that the consultant ever paid attention, but thats another story that ends up with the phrase "semi-self-discharge", but anyhoo.

Before I got ill, I was playing with a sad geek idea I've had before but could never be bothered with the yak shaving involved, enter Zimki. The idea was a general purpose statistics dumping area, that I could use from any computer with an internet connection to record any stat i could possibly dream up and now thanks to Zimki someone else could  worry about things like database maintenance etc.

To start testing it back then, I added a curl command to my home and work bash startup files, that would increment a daily counter every time I fired up a shell.

This morning I decided to look at my shell usage, as a way to chart my recovery. So some R, Perl, Zimki and misc other UNIX goodies later I give you my health/productivity as indicated by bash shell script startups (yes, i am that sad).