Looking down at Gustavia
Looking down at Gustavia
Picture of Arnd

Arnd

December 2009 Vacation Trip 2010-12-04

Friday, December 4, 2009

I’m sitting in a Café having a Mille-feuille and a good coffee as I write this, luckily they let me use a power plug as my Sony notebook’s battery is dead; unfortunately there is no Wi-Fi access here but I’ll catch up on my posts when I get to St. Martin as the Iridium phone is incredibly slow; I had about 250Kb of incoming mails and responded with 2 short 1-liners and it took almost an hour! I am really dissatisfied with Iridium for data connections. I motored from Gustavia to the anchorage of Colombier just around the bend, as it was too short a distance to warrant raising the sails and I needed to charge my batteries in any case. I made one quick attempt at picking up a mooring, but they have no pennant so I went straight to anchoring and spent the day doing minor cleaning work in the shade of the bimini and finally took a picture of the life raft for these pages. The wind picked up towards dusk so my plan of firing up the barbecue and making a steak will have to postponed until tomorrow. I have some frankfurters left for tonight.

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight. 

Every.  Single.  Page. 

 

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies. 

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.