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Cap'n Jeremy · Aslan Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Cambridge

Hi - just to let you know that the Sail Training Weekend is 5th to 7th March 2010. It promises to be a weekend of fun and sailing, and possibly the first chance for some people to see a yacht that we have not had on the Cruise before . . . (the picture on the left is quite small, so you can't see much detail).

If you have any questions about the Training Weekend - fire away!
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Cap'n Jeremy · Aslan Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Cambridge

I meant to say - there is a load of stuff all about the Sail Training Weekend on the main Broads Cruise Website http://www.broadscruise.org.uk/.

Just click on the 'Sail Training' reed on the left hand side, then select 'Sail Training Weekend 5th - 7th March 2010 at N.O.T. ' from the Cap'n Jeremy page.
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Cap'n Jeremy · Aslan Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Cambridge

I'm trying to set a record for the most posts in a thread by the same person without anyone else replying . . .
(especially a serious thread Smile

)

Anyway, there is a brand-new, pretty version of the Sail Training website, just uploaded. It has pictures and everything!
Sail Training Weekend 2010
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Cap'n Jeremy · Aslan Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Cambridge

The Sail Training Weekend is popular, and is already over half full.

Don't worry, there is still room for more!
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Greg M · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:33 am Post subject:

Jeremy, I'm going to foil your record attempt. I think it was hopeless anyway, since I recall once banning Mark for setting up a script to post stuff automatically on here, one letter at a time (or something like that).

The sail training weekend's really good and everyone should definitely go on it, but they should take plenty of clothes.
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Stephen Evans · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:59 am Post subject:

Didn't you make him an admin instead of banning him?

Little Luke · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject:

i remember that, and all he's done is abuse his power! Laughing

maevans · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:

Indeed, the record to beat is a whopping 754 posts! Although I got a very stern warning and onl just escaped a ban here for it! Good little project though, looking back at the code it could've been done far easier and more reliably... and the best of it all was that the fairy tale was of Greg's choosing Wink

If anyone wants a coding project, I can find you a far more useful one...

As for being an admin, I just used my power very appropriately...we had a new spambot called alenachka from Ukraine come to join us! Smile

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Little Luke · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject:

actually, i remember replying inside the Goldilocks topic before it was locked, so there wasn't a continuous line of 754 posts by you in a row, but most of them are you.

maevans · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject:

OK, so the lowest number of posts in a row to beat is 375 Razz

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Cap'n Jeremy · Aslan Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Cambridge

Ah, but my point was that all my posts were of a relevant, on-topic nature, moderately serious (as much as you need to be on this Forum) and even about sailing on the Broads.

And the STW is looking to be quite popular this year, we are now three-quarters full, even before the Leaders' Meeting.

Gareth's web site all about it now works for machines running Firefox on Linux as well as standard Windoze with Firefox or that awful, insecure IE thing (I'm not biased, or anything).
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maevans · Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 3:49 pm Post subject:

My posts were very relevant! I was reading all the little children a nice bedtime story about some bears that were going to come and gobble them all up.... Wink

Little Luke · Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject:

the government are using IE6?
Gareth's website is the sail training one. the issue was not having microsoft fonts in linux. and the links on the side not appearing in IE

maevans · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:28 am Post subject:

you can easily install the core Microsoft fonts in Linux - just do 'sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer' if you're using Ubuntu 9.10 (the package name is mstt-corefonts in previous versions I think) Wink

The safest way to avoid browser issues is to use CSS and the font-family selector, rather than specifying an exact font (for example).

For example, rather than doing '<font size="2" face="Verdana"></font>' (actually had to look that up!) I could use the css 'body {font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;}' (I've applied the font choice to the html <body> tag here, as that'd affect the whole page). That code would tell the browser to use Verdana if available, Arial if not, and if neither were then it'd use the system's default sans-serif font Smile

The idea of CSS is that all the formatting is seperate from the content (can even be stored in a separate file) - that way if you want to redesign the site, you only have to change the CSS file and not rewrite each/every individual file. It also makes it a lot easier for people with screen readers or older browsers (eg blind/old people) as the HTML simply contains the page layout, and makes it very easy for things like screen readers to navigate Smile

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Little Luke · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:34 am Post subject:

I'm using Dell Ubuntu 8.04 and 'sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts' worked for me.

I've heard of CSS and used it a little bit, it's quite clever and useful