originally posted august 07, 1999

last updates this side of the state line

It's been 18 1/2 years in New York state, and 12 years in Syosset, but I'll be finally leaving home on August 16 for my new life. Of course, I'll still be updating this page and serving it to you... what else are OC-12 lines for? (To answer that, no, there will be no porn, MP3's, bootlegged movies or wArEz here.)

It's been a busy, interesting week. Last weekend, I visited a couple of friends -- one old, one much more recent -- in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the pictures have started to crop up. I arrived home over an hour later than I expected, due to the little engine that couldn't. The week started off with a heavier than expected barrage of Natalie Portman fans' e-mail, and then I went to check my counter. Apparently someone mentioned this site on Usenet as a source of stalker-friendly information, and over 300 people visited in a 48-hour period.

I find it ironic that you capitalize on Natalie's success by ranting on others for doing the same.

-- Scott Pollack
july 29, 1999

I'll spare you the usual shtick about how this page will not become a fan site. Fans are, of course, welcome; immediately following the 300-hit boom, there was a bust of sorts (but not the good sorts) as my old ISP finally pulled the plug on the web space they've essentially been letting me have for free since I switched to cable for Internet. Fortunately, I hope I've made repeat visitors of the Queen Amidala devotees that came for the "info," but stayed to actually read the pages and send me complimentary e-mails about them.

Besides the picture archive, the only other updated page of note is my résumé, which now boasts more job experience and no more extracurricular activities.

Let's keep the bitterness flowing, shall we?

Back to August 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.