Monthly Archives: June 2007

Københavns dragestrande

Full wind report || WAP || METAR/TAF

Amager Strandpark

NE, E, SE


The most beautiful beaches north of paradise with showers, toilets, bike paths, and absolutely no rocks. Kite surfing is officially ghettoed to area #4 on the open sea. However, as the danish sun and wind rarely mingle neither do kites and bathers. Unfortunately, only winds from [...]

Sjælland Vind

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Numeric Character References

A Numeric Character Reference (NCR) is a construct found in SGML and thus HTML and XML which represents a Unicode glyph. NCR may be decimal, hexadecimal, or perhaps other bases. However, decimal references are most widely supported, despite W3C’s hexadecimal recommendation. Character Entity References (CER) use short names rather than numbers to represent glyphs, but [...]

Knots

The speed of a vessel relative to the fluid in which it travels is often measured in knots.
The term comes from the practice of throwing a wooden break (chip log) behind a boat connected to a rope with knots at intervals of a little over 14 meters. The number of knots of rope released in [...]