2012-01-07

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-01-07

I spent the morning hours packing away the last of the stuff from storage, then at noon proceeded to rent a wreck at the ferry dock for 2 days (cash deal, he just checked my license and didn’t even to a credit-card imprint, that’s never happened to me before) and then did some shopping and picked up the Spectra replacement water membrane from warranty. A short visit to Ace Hardware and various other small stores and I was ready to go to the airport to pick up Nat and Rob. Of course it was Air France so their flight was delayed but luckily only a half hour and I had taken my notebook along. They arrived in good cheer after a long and uncomfortable flight – but their luggage was scared of international travel and had decided to spend another day or two in France.
After settling into the boat, we dinghied across the Simpson Baie lagoon to Barnacle’s for Happy Hour and met up with Carmen and Bernd, as all of us had met on project work in Germany.

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.