[Rhodes22-list] Blue_Skies Website

Mary Lou Troy mtroy at atlanticbb.net
Tue Aug 4 11:22:33 EDT 2009


Glad everyone is looking at this. I've got some editorial and content 
organization/labeling skills as well as some corporate memory but no 
time in the next couple of weeks and not much more than that between 
now and the end of September. That said, I'm glad to help out.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 05:19 PM 8/3/2009, you wrote:
>Thanks Mike!  No problems pulling a copy of the blew_skies website.
>We should be OK on that front.
>
>Reformatting the content... that's another story.  It's a lot of
>really old code  arranged in hundreds of HTML files.  Given a little
>time I can probably automate some conversion.  "Convert into what?"
>you may ask...  Well, a wiki program would be ideal.  MediaWiki is
>free and is also the engine behind Wikipedia.  Uses standard PHP/MySQL
>platform, so we should be good to go.  Converting the existing HTML
>pages into MySQL data elements will be a "fun" project.  There is an
>XML format described for importing to MediaWiki.  A lot of text
>manipulation may give me what I need to do a straight import.  More
>research is required and I will appreciate any help once I know what
>the tasks will be!
>
>Cheers!
>John Lock
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
>Lake Sinclair, GA
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>On Aug 3, 2009, at 16:10, Michael D. Weisner wrote:
> > John & MJM,
> >
> > Thanks for looking out for "da list."
> >
> > John, let me know if you are successful with httrack from your IP.  If
> > geocities starts to limit or complain, I can pick up some of the
> > files from
> > another IP and subsequently give you access to the files on one of my
> > servers.
> >
> > Once we have the content and a plan for integration into www.Rhodes22.org
> > , I
> > will make time to help reformat the material, if needed.
> >
> > Mike
> > s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> > Nissequogue River, NY
> >
> > From: "John Lock" Monday, August 03, 2009 3:38 PM
> >> FTP is not likely without the access codes.  But wget or httrack will
> >> do nicely off our server.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >> John Lock
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> >> Lake Sinclair, GA
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 3, 2009, at 15:10, David Culp wrote:
> >>> You may want to grab it because I think I just read that Geocities
> >>> was
> >>> shutting down pretty soon.  Be nice if you could FTP all the files
> >>> to one
> >>> location and then work on it from there at leisure.
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:07:39 -0400
> >>> From: "michael meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Blew_Skies website
> >>> To: "'The Rhodes 22 Email List'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >>> Message-ID: <054401ca1465$49bcc1c0$dd364540$@com>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="US-ASCII"
> >>>
> >>> Yes you can :-) Ask asked him a number of year ago if we could copy
> >>> the site
> >>> and use it on Rhodes22.org because he was not updating it any more(I
> >>> think
> >>> he sold the boat), got permission, I started creating a wiki out of
> >>> it(since
> >>> lost), but could not get Ed/Bill to keep it going. I still think the
> >>> best
> >>> bet would be to wget the pages and cut them into a wiki so it can be
> >>> update
> >>> by anyone on the list and keep it living. Just remember John "no
> >>> good deed
> >>> will go unpunished". :-)
> >>>
> >>> -mjm
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> >>> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of John Lock
> >>> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:26 PM
> >>> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> >>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Blew_Skies website
> >>>
> >>> Yes, it is technically possible.  However, that material is all
> >>> owned
> >>> by whoever put it together, so it is copyrighted.  I can't just lift
> >>> it and make a copy.  I don't know if the people listed on that site
> >>> are even still around, the geocities account for the developer no
> >>> longer exists. But I can send off some e-mail to see if I get a
> >>> response.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers!
> >>> John Lock
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> >>> Lake Sinclair, GA
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 12:13, Michael D. Weisner wrote:
> >>>> John Lock,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is it possible to incorporate the contents of the "blew_skies" site
> >>>> on the
> >>>> www.Rhodes22.org <http://www.rhodes22.org/>?  It seems that there
> >>>> is so
> >>> much wonderful
> >>>> information
> >>>> there.  Who owns or maintains the account?  I know that there is a
> >>>> link from
> >>>> Rhodes22.org in the R22/FAQ section.
> >>>>
> >>>> It just seems that this wealth of information could be made more
> >>>> accessible.
> >>>> Something else to ponder in your non-existent spare time.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mike
> >>>> s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> >>>> Nissequogue River, NY
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> From: "Mary Lou Troy" Monday, August 03, 2009 11:38 AM
> >>>>> There is an account of Roger Pihlaja's trip to Garden Island and
> >>>>> Beaver Island in his Rhodes 22 in the old Rhodes FAQ here:
> >>>>> http://www.geocities.com/blew_skies/gardeni.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Note that Roger is a fine sailor and outdoorsman. He also used
> >>>>> regularly post accounts of winter camping trips with his sons.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mary Lou
> >>>>> 1991 R22 Fretless
> >>>>> Rock Hall, MD
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> At 12:58 AM 8/3/2009, you wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Cowie,
> >>>>>> Several years ago I sailed with my son on our 32-footer from
> >>>>>> Traverse City to Charlevoix, MackinacIsland, then down to Beaver
> >>>>>> Island, back to Charlevoix and its long lake. I wouldn't do it on
> >>>>>> our Rhodes 22 because the waves can build up to 6 ft. even in the
> >>>>>> best weather, I suppose due to thelong fetch. I think Charlevoix
> >>>>>> Lake would be quite nice for your R 22, as well as maybe the two
> >>>>>> Traverse City  Bays.
> >>>>>> Al Keblinskas
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 19:20:56 -0700
> >>>>>>> From: ccowie at cowieassociates.com
> >>>>>>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >>>>>>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list]  Michigan
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Have any rhodies sailed to beaver island, makinaw, north
> >>>>>> channell?  Are these
> >>>>>>> areas to challengng for a r22?  I live in Washington dc but have
> >>>>>>> spent
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>> last 25 summer.vacations in charleviox mi and may eventualy
> >>>>>>> trailer my
> >>>>>>> boat
> >>>>>>> from the Chesapeake to michigan.
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