weill aspects

originally posted may 30, 1999

thanks, but no thanks

Just to affirm that I'm a nerd at heart, I did see Star Wars Episode I on opening night (albeit not at 12:01 AM; I did have other obligations that day), and I thought it was pretty good. However, amidst the multimillion-dollar hype that surrounded the movie was a boneheaded publicity stunt by a certain radio station to tie a certain star of the movie to a certain high school that I happen to attend. Because the name of the school was mentioned on the air, and since my web page (among others) is returned for search engine queries on "Syosset High School," I have received a sampling of e-mail messages requesting information and offering to purchase anything that might have to do with her. In all my life, I'd never think that I of all people might be saying this to someone else, but to all the name-dropping annoyances that have been pestering me and my classmates (among them the London Courier, Miami Herald, et al.):

School is even more pointless now than ever, after all the exams are done with. In the near future, you can expect some photos from various end-of-school activities, but for now you'll have to make do with only a minor change at the end of about me.

Back to May 1999, or to the year 1999.

Where am I?

This is Weill Aspects, the official news archive of Jason Weill Web Productions. All articles posted to the front page end up here. This page was generated automatically by a series of Perl scripts.

Articles in Weill Aspects are organized solely by date. You may find the Google search in the left column to be useful if you are looking for an article but do not know the date on which it was posted.

Weill Aspects is composed of static web pages generated as appropriate when a new article is posted. It was developed in May 2001 as a way of managing the content on this site. I also used it extensively while in Japan, during which time I did not have continuous access to the Internet. I was able to write daily updates during July and August 2002, pack the files onto a CD-R or memory device, and upload them from the Internet-connected computers at school.

These scripts are all hacked together in less than elegant fashion, and I don't plan to release them. Some of the design that went into Aspects also was used to develop Livestat, a suite of Perl scripts to process statistics for academic competition tournaments. Livestat is available freely.