Arnd
December 7, 2009
12:00 am
2009 Blog, Original SV-Zanshin Website, Saint Barthélemy

2009-12-07

Arnd

December 2009 Vacation Trip 2010-12-07

Monday, December 7, 2009

A quick 3.5 hour passage from St. Barths to St. Martin and I am once again anchored right off the ferry terminal in Marigot. Customs and Immigration is closed for lunch until 14:00 so I have another 45 minutes to spend at this café catching up on my mails and other internet stuff. The checking was quick, I am getting better at using the French keyboard and know the page layout off by heart. I rented a car from Keith’s Car Rental (again) and found out that my part won’t arrive until Wednesday and get installed on Thursday. I bought a gas-driven barbecue at Budget Marine and tomorrow is going to be an expen$ive day as I’ll return to the chandleries with a shopping list in hand. Traffic on the island, particularly on the one road connecting the French and Dutch sides at the lagoon, is just as crowded as I remembered it and at rush hour it can compete with the best of the world’s big cities.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

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.