Adium now supports LiveJournal's IM protocol. Why does LiveJournal need its own IM protocol, anyway? Apparently it's because you can now post by IM.

I installed WordPress late last month so I don't need to use this journal to syndicate my web site any more. New postings will show up at http://weill.org/category/fragments and you can subscribe to an Atom feed or RSS feed to read them automatically. (If anyone knows of a system ( Read more... )

It's been quite an eventful year in 2005 as I reflect from my family's home in New York. The last twelve months have further established my future in Pittsburgh and have taught me a great deal about responsibility and attitude -- namely that I should have less of both.
( Read more... )

This past Friday was Pittsburgh's annual Light-Up Night event, a civic event that signifies the start of the holiday season - not the Christmas season, but the holiday season. As a man who was born and raised Jewish, I used to find it amusing when people tried to sanitize the holiday season so as to be inoffensive; now I'm more offended by it.
( Read more... )

You wouldn't notice it by the many unpacked boxes that still litter the lower level of my house, but I've spent many years trying to get organized. Back in my sophomore year of high school, I got myself a PalmPilot Personal Edition. The 512 kilobytes of memory helped keep track of all my work ( Read more... )

I spent the last full week of August with my family in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. It was a relaxing time down in the Massanutten resort area. Except for all the time we spent watching baseball and ESPNEWS to keep tabs on the Yankees, our vacation was distraction-free: the nearest Internet access was at a coffee shop 20 minutes away. Just ( Read more... )

When I made the decision to move earlier this year, I also made the decision to go high-definition. In so doing I also decided to drop Comcast for Dish Network. Now I'm willing to eat hundreds of dollars in equipment and early-termination fees to come crawling back. Comcast, meanwhile, is rolling out the red carpet to welcome me back as a ( Read more... )

It's another lazy summer where I have much to do. Earlier this month I took a trip up to Boston to meet up with some friends for the Fourth of July, and I was impressed with the show they put on up there. Despite the Red Sox championship gloating that started at the border ("Welcome to Massachusetts - Home of 2004 World Champion Red Sox," on I-84 ( Read more... )

It's been just over a month since I moved into my new home. I'm still ( Read more... )

Whoa. I feel so... residential.
( Read more... )