Sailing by
Apologies to those who were looking for a final blog of the season. Unfortunately I was afflicted with multiple electronic failures that compromised our blog writing ability. The electronic failures were that the Toshiba notebook that lived in the fridge finally emerged with a label on it's toe, and would not fire up at all. Since coming home I have actually got it going again by flash upgrading the BIOS and replacing the hard drive and it is now running Ubuntu very nicely. My android phone developed battery bloat. The battery expanded suddenly and forced open the back cover of the phone. This was very alarming and I am glad it did not happen mid flight. Finally my android tablet suddenly became unchargeable and the battery failed. I am not sure if these failures are due to the heat, the saline environment or just the consequence of being old and cheap. Probably the latter. This actually became a bit alarming as I had become somewhat dependent on android devices not just for c