Archive - 2005
May 6th
500 Greyhounds Need Rescue Before May 14th!
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 05/06/2005 - 17:15Today, I received an email, forward through at least three different people before it made it to me. It is important, so I'm posting it here, as is (with perhaps a little formatting).
500 Greyhounds Need Rescue Before May 14th!
CONTACT: Dakin Animal Shelter (in MA) at 413-548-9898
http://www.dakinshelter.org/news.html
The greyhound track in Plainfield, CT voted on April 26th that they would discontinue greyhound racing. Unfortunately - and heartbreakingly - they've also decided that rescuers have only two weeks to get the dogs out, and any dogs remaining at the track on May 14th will be euthanized.
May 4th
Mapping the wonderful world of blogging
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 05/04/2005 - 12:24Greenwich Time is planning to run an article on blogging this coming Sunday. I spoke with Neil Vigdor a bit about the article and my wife pointed him to Energy Outlook, which is a great blog about energy issues written by a friend in Greenwich.
A photographer stopped by to take a picture of me, with my blog. Since I am paid for working on the DeStefano blog, I had that up in the background. He asked about the software that I was using and it became clear that he knew what he was talking about. It turns out that he has a blog.
May 3rd
Technology Stuff
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 05/03/2005 - 13:36Over the years, I've had several different blogs running several different programs on several different servers. Most of them are still up and running and you can read much of my old posts if you search around a little.
One blog I set up was running MovableType on a PC in my kitchen. It is also the PC that my daughter uses much of the time. Unfortunately, something causes the server to get stuck and she needs to reboot before the PC works reliably.
Yesterday, I spent some time trying to find out exactly what is causing the problem. As best as I can tell, the old MovableType blog gets stuck in a tight loop.
May 1st
How the world is.
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 05/01/2005 - 20:23"White dawn. Stillness"
I remember when I first heard those words intoned.
This is College of Wooster. This is my freshman year. The year is nineteen hundred and seventy-seven. Denise Levertov is speaking at the installation of Henry Copeland as the college's ninth president. I am mesmerized as I hear her read "A Tree telling of Orpheus", and like the tree, I too am changed.
Years later, I read "Chekhov on West Heath"
"This is Hampstead. This
is Judge’s Walk. It is nineteen hundred
and forty-one.
The war? They take it for granted;
It was predicted while they were children,
And has come to pass. It means
no more ballet school, Betty is ill,
I am beginning to paint in oils.
The war is simply
how the world is, to which they were born.
They share
The epiphanies of their solitudes"
April 29th
Youth Rights Media
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 04/29/2005 - 10:03(Originally posted on the DeStefano for CT blog)
I joined the DeStefano campaign for many reasons. I like his policies and the way he has thought them out. I like his willingness to engage in dialog about what is best for New Haven and for Connecticut. I like his willingness to explore new media to get the message across, and I like his call on all of us to expect more of ourselves and our state.
Yesterday, I received an email from Fernando J. Muñiz of the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance about the film, CJT$: At What Cost? The film was produced by Youth Rights Media.
