This honestly wasn’t planned but you know Jeff Skilling was just sentenced to 24 years this morning for his part in the Enron collapse? Well it just so happens that while developing the SONAR application at Trampoline we decided to use the Enron email archive, which was made public as part of the FARC investigations, as our test data set. The results were so much fun that we’ve turned it into a standalone technology demo… It’s been in limited release to friends and family for the last few days but with the news today it seems to be spreading beyond our control. There are a few bugs in there (mine are almost all back button related!) but mostly I think it works. So, without any further ado I give you the Enron Explorer.
Just to keep things topical, it’s also worth mentioning that Jeff Skilling is responsible for my absolute favourite email out of the whole lot. How’s this for the head of what was the 7th largest company in the world: “Fuck you, you piece of shit. I can’t wait to see you go down with the ship like all the other vermin. Smug, paranoid, unhappy mother fucker. Eat shit.”
