Archive - 2008
November 10th
Another Random Day, IPv6 and NaNoWriMo
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 23:21Today was another day of random geeky and NaNoWriMo stuff. I helped configure a Windows 2008 Server. It provided a good opportunity to test out some more IPv6 stuff.
Out of the box, Windows Server 2008 seems to be working with IPv6 and I briefly connected via IPv6 from the Windows Server 2008 server through a couple IPv6 tunnels to my Linux box. I access both web pages and used SSH. Google Chrome and Firefox both connected to the Apache web server that I have running and PuTTY, a windows client that supports SSH and IPv6 connected to the sshd on my linux box.
Unfortunately, the IPv6 tunnel that the Windows 2008 Server seems to be using is slow and flaky. I kept dropping connections. I want to see if I can find a better tunnel for the Windows 2008 Server.
This took, traveling, and random house keeping tasks took up much of the day. I did manage to visit my quota of blogs today, but didn’t end up leaving as many comments as I normally would. I also managed to get a little farther in my novel. It is going well, but today I didn’t even make 1,667 words, let alone what I figure I need to do to make up for lost time. Tomorrow, I have some personal issues to deal with, but hopefully I’ll get more interesting writing done, both here and in the novel.
Recent ma.noglia bookmarks
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 04:02Here are pages I've recently bookmarked with ma.gnolia:
Blanca DeBree Blog: Doors Open, Boys!
The best analysis of Proposition 8 that I've yet read
November 9th
Random Notes:
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 11/09/2008 - 21:47Trying to catch up on my novel is great fun. It is like I’m reading a novel that I find very interesting, that I can’t put down, but instead of it being someone else’s words, it is my own words pouring out as I write them. Yet it is time consuming and a bit draining.
I am now up to 7,610 words. Way behind where I should be today, but catching up. I spent time with my extended family yesterday and today, and Fiona did another episode of her radio show.
I wrote down more of my thoughts for my speech to a communications class that I’ll be giving on Friday in Second Life. In certain ways, writing down my thoughts for that feels similar to writing my novel. The words flow quickly and easily, but at the same time it is draining and there are time commitments and deadlines.
To unwind, I’ve been visiting various blogs and I found a great post. Blanca DeBree wrote a blog post entitled, Doors Open, Boys!. Blanca starts off, “Thank God the Californians decided to pass Proposition 8 and write discrimination into their constitution.”
Following that theme come several suggestions: “How about Proposition X: marriage is between a white man and a white woman.” and “Poposition M: marriage is between a non-Mormon man and a non-Mormon woman.”
I noted that here in Connecticut, Love Makes a Family has set up a Wedding Catalog for people who want to get married in the Constitution State.
I follow up with the comment, “It will be good for business here in Connecticut, and if we benefit from a brain drain from the Discrimination State to the Constitution State, we'll I hope that will help grow business in our state as well.”
Another part of my unwinding has been hacking my cellphone. I’ve finally started applying some mods. I’ve changed the default skin and am looking to create my own skin for the phone. I tweaked it so that my ringtone can be a whole song, and I’ve enabled, although not yet configured, the email client.
I guess that’s enough for one day, even if I didn’t have the energy to write as many words for the novel as I would have liked.
November 8th
#nanowrimo The Week Ahead and The Week Behind
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 13:11Last week was a difficult week for me to write. I spent Tuesday electioneering and then going down to the NPR Studios in Washington to blog about the election results. Since then, I’ve been trying to catch up on my sleep, fight a cold, and try to make sense of the week that was.
This coming week is going to be equally challenging. I have a tentative client visit on Monday, some personal issues to deal with on Tuesday, and some important blogging events the rest of the week.
On Wednesday, at 10 AM, in front of the New Haven City Hall at 165 Church Street, Barb and Robin Levine-Ritterman of New Haven, who were plaintiffs in the Kerrigan case will be applying for a marriage license. Love Makes a Family is encouraging people to join in the celebrations on this historic day.
Then, at 2:30 in the evening, there will be oral arguments in Doninger v. Niehoff et al on a motion for a summary judgment. It should be interesting to hear the arguments in light of emails that have been disclosed as part of Freedom of Information Requests, which the Plaintiffs claim demonstrate that one of the defendants lied on the stand.
As a side note, the link to the document listed above is only available to people who have PACER accounts. Pages accessed this way are charged $.08 per page. I include this link and a comment about it because, I believe that as part of open government, which I hope the new administration will be bringing, we should do away with fees like those on Pacer and make information about our government more readily available.
On Thursday, there will be a conference at Central Connecticut State University on Journalism-- Where We Are; Where We’re Going. Speakers include several friends from online media, and I hope to make it up to the conference.
Friday, I will be speaking in Second Life about the relationship between Second Life and other online media. Then on Saturday, the Investigative Reports and Editors will be running a workshop at Southern Connecticut State University entitled Watchdog Workshop which will combine elements of two different workshops. The IRE is a great organization and I hope to be able to attend. Unfortunately, I only heard about the workshop after online registration had closed so I am not clear if I will be able to attend.
As with last week, the coming week doesn’t leave a lot of time for novel writing. On top of that, my initial idea for my novel just wasn’t coming together. It was too close to a memoir, and too far from being a novel. I didn’t find the experience engaging, so I abandoned it. I’ve started off on a new track, but I’m several days behind now and the writing is hard. We shall see if I can catch up during a busy schedule.
