Hi ninthfrank, Thanks for the suggestion. I did use rescuetime. It gives interesting stats. Since I spend a lot of time on coursera videos playing in vlc,

Hi ninthfrank, Thanks for the suggestion. I did use rescuetime. It gives interesting stats. Since I spend a lot of time on coursera videos playing in vlc, it decided i was wasting a lot of time ;) It was very useful nonetheless. Unfortunately it stopped working when I changed my desktop environment. I will go back and get it working again.