SXM PE

11 days off line, not good. The explanation is this.

The person in charge of our server took a vacation and left a friend to to watch over it. Unfortunately, that friend was struck with a serious medical illness and has been in hospital the last 10 days, and therefore has been unable to check email and has been unaware that our server needed restarting.

That's it, very simple and nothing much we could do about it, and now I hope they both excuse my emails that were more angry each day and hope that the friend gets well soon. Now to the task of catching up posting news and a few blogs, so much been going on that deserves a mention :)

Flipper

SXM PE has recently received a donation of 150 posters from a local distributor to help us raise funds for our bills. We still owe several hundred dollars to our tech guy for building our new site and he is on a small monthly retainer to maintain it and deal with problems that come up. We also have our annual hosting fees coming up soon.

The posters, which you can see below in more detail, are ideal for schools and also for businesses who want their clients to know that they care about the environment and the future of our planet. I don't know about you, but I feel better spending my money with those that do.

A set of all three, with hangers, can be yours for only $15.

Please email sxmcaribdude at yahoo dot com to order. They will be delivered to where ever you want them delivered on island.

The problem with people who think they are infallible is that you can never get them to admit they might be wrong, or to reassess or reconsider their position on something, that’s why trying to engage them in debate here online is such a never ending saga of mind bending banality. Doing so seems to create even bigger problems, because quite often these sort of people are unable to respond to any valid and legitimate challenge or criticism and end up trying to discredit opponents using emotional, unfounded slurs and threats.

Leopold James has another letter up claiming full responsibility for his previous letter ’warning’ bloggers, like me, to be careful what we write, because our identities are being tracked and monitored 24hrs a day, he warns of ‘serious consequences’. Funny thing is, his new letter singles me out for special attention and I feel obliged to respond, I have a sneaking suspicion he won't like the 'quality' or 'tone' of it, but I promise to try to be gentle :)

Yeah, we dolphins do love our fish! It's how they get us to do tricks at Dolphinariums don't you know, using hunger and food as motivation. I'm so glad we don't have one here.

But it's true, Flipper is now officially Off Island, Gone Fishing and banned from writing unless I really really need to. SXM PE is now 4 years old, it's rebuilt and it is now open to the people and community of SXM to make of it what they will, I have repeatedly begged people I think have writing talents and knowledge and information to share to write, I get promises but never actual blogs. Maybe I was wrong and expected too much? I need to take a break.....