Bill Gates’ inbox, by numbers
This Bill guy must be a very popular person, ain’t he? 
The entire article is stolen below.
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4 million is the number of emails Bill Gates receives every day, according to buddy Steve Ballmer, speaking in Singapore.
19 Nov 2004, 09:44 GMT -
2.9 million is the number of spam messages Gates gets every day.
2,778 is the number of emails Gates gets every minute.
2,033 the number of spams Gates gets every minute.
10,000 - Gates is the recipient of more than one out of every 10,000 emails sent by anybody anywhere in the world.
34 days is how long it would take Bill to download a day’s worth of spam to Outlook, if it (generously) took just one second per message.
22 weeks is how long it would take Bill, working solidly without breaks, to manually delete one day’s spam.
458 is the number of people, working 8-hour shifts, Bill would need to hire to delete that spam manually each day.
1.2 terabytes is the disk space needed to store a month of Bill’s spam.
460 gigabytes is the disk space needed to store all of Bill’s non-spam email, given the company’s alleged 30-day email retention policy.
Sources: Steve Ballmer (Bill’s big inbox), Postini Inc (73.2% of email
is spam), IDC (4 to 5 seconds to delete a spam), Yahoo! Inc (average
email size is 15K), MX Logic Inc (31 billion emails are sent per day),
Burst.com Inc (Microsoft’s 30-day retention policy).
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Help a lot on finding references, surely raises my dependency-level on google .
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2 awfully busy weeks
Don’t know for sure what happened to me lately. Been neglecting my main job: the research 
. Neglecting here doesn’t mean that I left it completely, it’s just that in the initial phase of research like now, I should have spend my time more on this rather than on others.
The ‘distractions’ are finished now. Should get back on my research. And pray a lot that I can come up with good ideas… ASAP.
Just for my own record. Those ‘distractions’ are:
- Responsible for the “eat and then knowledge-learning” event — [guess which part of the event is more attractive :-p].
Price: take at least 2 full days of my time.
Priceless: the satisfaction after realizing that the events run smoothly and surely bring benefits to many people.
- Involved in the ‘angklung’ performance shown at Titech welcome party [I’m not the busiest person, but still it used some part of my time. Two thumbs up for the ’sensei’ and PPI ‘chairman’ who — undoubtedly — dedicated much of their time for this event]. And just for the record, we had good appraisal for the performance. Cheers ^_^.
- Been slept for only about 4 hours per day because of ‘after-life business’ engagement 
. Thankfully I could stand the full 10 days. Still wonder where did I get my power to endure the whole time… hmmm… surely motivation is a very strong driving force …
- One of my best friend is in the need of a big help to complete his study. More than happy to help him, less time and energy for my own research .
* final result: *
* physically — tired.. tired .. tired .. *
* mentally — Never been in a better conditions than now *
One BIG [and I really mean BIG] thing is still distracting me right now. Advices from the experts are being explored. Hopefully it would eventually be resolved on the good way.
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