Month: June 2021
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Parcel Delivery Scammers Could Try Harder
Dan dissects SMS parcel fraud scams and suggests four ways in which tomorrow's fraudsters might be smarter and more-dangerous than todays.
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Geohashing expedition 2021-06-26 51 -1
Dan cycles out towards the 2021-06-26 51 -1 geohashpoint but fails when he discovers he forgot to bring a bike lock and can't go the final kilometre with his bike.
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Couldn't find GC7PEG1 The Cachington Tour
While out geohashing, Dan tries to find a multicache in Cassington but fails because an essential clue is inaccessible.
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Creed Cult-ure
Automatticians seem to really believe in their creed. Is Dan's employer a cult? Let's try to work it out...
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Posted a note for GC8W7QW Forgotten Bridge
This checkin to GC8W7QW Forgotten Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Dropped by while out for a walk and discovered that "Gina + Kylie", a pair of presumably non-geocachers, found the cache on Tue 8 June and left a note in the logbook! This is cool, not just because …
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Ahead of schedule on work project. Invited to 2nd COVID jab next week. Spent half of day working on laptop in sunny garden. Parcel arrived from @LEGO_group with Everyone Is Awesome model (pictured).
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Just learned Tuca & Bertie is getting a 2nd season (thanks Adult Swim, no thanks Netflix). Super excited. In anticipation I'm rewatching season 1 of this sort-of "upbeat feminist Bojack Horseman" and (re)loving it.
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Getting Twitter Avatars (without the Twitter API)
Twitter's API sucks so hard that Dan resorts to screen-scraping for avatar images rather than bothering to use it "properly".