A back-of-the-envelope calculation...

[alexpgp]

After exporting my posts since joining this lashup, I find they weigh in at something like 1.3 MB.

Using the traditional measure of 6 characters per word, that converts to... a bit more than 200,000 words.

If I apply Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is crap - to this figure, I end up with something like 20,000 words that might, under some set of circumstances I cannot imagine, be considered publishable.

Assume your typical book holds 350 words per page, and is 200 pages long (this is off the top of my head... I think the numbers may be high). That's 70,000 words.

Hmmm. Looks like I'm about a quarter of the way to writing a book.

Maybe.

Mathematics aside, the question that presents itself immediately is: who the heck'd read it?

Anyway... time to write the handover for the next shift.

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

When are you going to write your Sturgeon's Law filter to further compress your archives? It would probably work well with your translations, too - get rid of all the dross ;)

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Ah, but that's the limitation of Sturgeon's Law. It says 90% of everything is crap, but lends no hint as to which 90%.

Cheers...

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Damn. I thought you had the handle on which 90% ;)