Author: Oliver Jobson
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Day Skipper.. & racing!
It was an exhausting week, having set sail for the Helford river on Sunday the 15th at 5pm and then finally docking at 2am on Saturday morning, but I am now a qualified day Skipper! We sailed at night, in fog, in fairly heavy seas, with the wind gusting to force 8 and in pouring…
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Dolphins & Navigation
Got back in to Falmouth on Friday after a trip to Fowey; We set sail at 11.30 on Thursday and got in to Fowey for 3.30 in the afternoon. I’ve got to say that Fowey is a really nice, typical Cornish port, and it has some great restaurants too! After spending the night on Wazobia,…
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Day Skipper Theory Exams
Well this week I’ve passed my day skipper theory exams, which mostly involves using some big charts, a compass and divider and plotting bearings, headings, waypoints, Fixes, water tracks, ground tracks, finding out estimated positions, tidal streams, tidal depths, chart datum, drying heights and… well, you get the picture – its quite a lot to…
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Unemployed and homeless!
Well, I’ve finished work and moved out of Bournemouth – it had to happen eventually, but the start of summer seemed a pretty good time to do it! My parents have recently moved back to the UK so it will be good to spend some time with them down in Cornwall. So, bring on summer…
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mySQL on a mac
Some things to note: Uninstall cd /usr/local ls –l Delete file /library/Receipts/mysql**.pkg sudo rm –R mysql…. Then delete the other one too. Locate directory locate *mysqld* Change directory: cd /usr/local/mysql Connect to test database: /usr/local/mysql/bin//mysql test
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Online Real Time HTML Editor
Does exactly what it says on the tin: Square Free HTML editor is a great little lightweight tool that allows you to input html and see the results in real time.
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Link Strategies
As an SEO, I restle with link building and its ethics (viewed as if by Google), but here is a great forum post about the main methodologies and their associated pitfalls as well related discussion. I’m posting this as it is the first time I have seen such a comprehensive “waffle free” list of these.…
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Sailing!
I’m still on a high at the moment having just got back from sailing Wazobia, my parents new Beneteau Oceanis 40 on its maiden voyage from the Hamble, near Southampton to Falmouth, in Cornwall. The weather could not really have been much better – sailing under beautiful star lit skies and scorching sun during the…
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Web analytics
A great post about analytics and how to solve some of the problems that come with it.