I've stopped using IM and IRC altogether, in the name of focus and commitment to my job and other personal projects. According to conventional wisdom, it's impossible to simply remove one addiction from your life without replacing it with another, equally consuming one. So, in this case I'm going to start blogging again, and sending a lot of SMSes.
I've gotten the name
sethkills back, from when I first started this whole thing, and I think I'm going to do what several of my friends do, keeping
my outside journal separate, as a means of disseminating computer-related information that might not be very relevant for my LJ friends.