It’s always interesting to see how much travel one does during the year.  At one point it used to be a source of pride, but now it’s becoming a source of carbon and of family disruption.  Either way, without good data you can’t judge yourself against your goals – I predict lifestyle data collection will be a major theme of the coming year.  Dopplr is a site that helps record your travel and look for opportunities to link up with your travelling friends.

This year, they’ve introduced a personalized annual report.  Mine is here.  A total of 61,252 kilometers last year, emitting around 7700 kg of carbon.  Most enlightening to me is the total of over two months - 73 days - away from home during the year.  And I felt was lighter on travel than in the past!

And I’m not off to a good start for 2009 – away 13 days so far and it’s only the 20th…

[Update 22 Jan: If you think this kind of data analysis is obsessive take a look at how beautiful obsession can be with the Felton Annual Report 2008.]