Year: 2016
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Attended GC69KHB It's leap year day, let us all get a souvenir
This checkin to GC69KHB It's leap year day, let us all get a souvenir reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Hurrah! Here I am!
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Archived GC54F78 Oxford Steganography #1 - Open In New Tab
This checkin to GC54F78 Oxford Steganography #1 - Open In New Tab reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. It's proved impossible for me to re-create the lenses used as clues in the parts of this series that have been "muggled", and it seems that the only solution is to dis-assemble …
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Archived GC54F7B Oxford Steganography #2 - Selected Text
This checkin to GC54F7B Oxford Steganography #2 - Selected Text reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. It's proved impossible for me to re-create the lenses used as clues in the parts of this series that have been "muggled", and it seems that the only solution is to dis-assemble and archive …
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Archived GC54F7J Oxford Steganography #3 - X-Ray
This checkin to GC54F7J Oxford Steganography #3 - X-Ray reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. It's proved impossible for me to re-create the lenses used as clues in the parts of this series that have been "muggled", and it seems that the only solution is to dis-assemble and archive the …
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Found GLKZW2HZ Silver Screen
This checkin to GLKZW2HZ Silver Screen reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. FTF! Happened to be in the city centre eating my sandwiches and looking at my phone when the alert came in: new cache, less than a kilometre away! Hopped on my bike and bombed it down to find …
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 2
Dan embraces the hacker culture of the VR ecosystem by abusing Google Cardboard and borrows an Occulus Rift DK2 in order to continue his virtual adventure...
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Found GLKZDAQT A Cryptic Cache
This checkin to GLKZDAQT A Cryptic Cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Solved the puzzle yesterday but didn't get the chance to come hint for this one until this morning, even I took a diversion from dropping my niece off at nursery to come and hunt! Sapphirites wasn't kidding: …
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Found GLKZAE27 Take it to the Bridge
This checkin to GLKZAE27 Take it to the Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found via a diversion from my cycle home this evening. Beaten to the FTF by Go Catch, of course, but that's something I'm used to, these days! TFTC: nice to see a new cache this …
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Posted a note for GC6AH8Y A Cryptic Cache
This checkin to GC6AH8Y A Cryptic Cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. 1st to solve... but I doubt that I can get there, first: probably won't have time to visit until later this week, maybe even the weekend, unless I can rejigger my travel plans a little bit. Love …
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The 2016 HTPC Build
I've loved many computers in my life, but the HTPC has always had a special place in my heart. It's the only always-on workhorse computer in our house, it is utterly silent, totally reliable, sips power, and it's at the center of our home entertainment, networking, storage, and gaming. This handy box does it all,…
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Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
In 2007 I wrote about using PNGout to produce amazingly small PNG images. I still refer to this topic frequently, as seven years later, the average PNG I encounter on the Internet is very unlikely to be optimized.
For example, consider this recent Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon...
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 1
Dan's been playing with a Google Cardboard, and it's nothing like The Lawnmower Man nor like any of his virtual reality experiences in the 1990s. The adventure begins...
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Highlights of 2016 so far
Dan kicks off the new year with some happy highlights.