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Month: January 2023

  • Fresh geocaching log book with a message stating that it's a replacement, added January 2023, held in a hand.

    Found GC97PZV 1 BH

    This checkin to GC97PZV 1 BH reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Finishing my morning walk where, perhaps, I should have started it with the first cache in this enjoyable series. Took a while for a good GPSr fix and I walked up and down the path a few times โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC97PZV
    • posted 29 January, 2023
  • A group of brown-and-white cattle eat hay from a feeder in a grassy field, sandwiched between two shipping containers which seem to act as a makeshift shelter.

    Found GC97WPR 7 BH

    This checkin to GC97WPR 7 BH reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Distracted by the cattle eating their breakfast and the increasingly beautiful sunrise, almost forgot to look for this cache. Read the hint but still didn't have a clue until I spotted something out-of-place in a field. Sure enough, โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC97WPR
    • posted 29 January, 2023
  • A red, pink and grey sunrise behind power lines and bare trees.

    Found GC97WPC 6 BH

    This checkin to GC97WPC 6 BH reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Sunrise taking off in earnest now with reds and pinks on the horizon, and my spine - unhappy for sleeping in an unfamiliar bed last night - is enjoying getting a stretch from the walk, too. Stared right โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC97WPC
    • posted 29 January, 2023
  • Dan, wearing a grey hoodie, waves to the camera from a dry wintery footpath.

    Found GC97WP6 5 BH

    This checkin to GC97WP6 5 BH reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I can see why the previous log moved this cache; pleased to see you be a good hiding place on the other side. Also pleased this wasn't another nano! Light's grown enough now to add a smiley selfie โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC97WP6
    • posted 29 January, 2023
  • Found GC97WN0 4 BH

    This checkin to GC97WN0 4 BH reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Got carried away with my walk and briefly overshot this one: realised as I reached the quarry road. Turned back and found the cache in the third place I looked. Said hi to a rabbit and the horses, โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC97WN0
    • posted 29 January, 2023
  • Found GC97WM3 3 BH

    This checkin to GC97WM3 3 BH reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. This morning's caching expedition just has it in for my back, I fear, with this one no exception. Nonetheless, a QEF in the first place I looked. TFTC!

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    • Checkin
    • to GC97WM3
    • posted 29 January, 2023
  • Found GC97WKD 2 BH

    This checkin to GC97WKD 2 BH reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A nonprofit I volunteer with has, years ago, held our Christmas bash at the nearby Fairlawns Hotel. We haven't been in several years and - even though we missed Christmas itself by a full month! - decided to โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC97WKD
    • 3 comments
    • posted 29 January, 2023
  • Diagram showing a password safe on a desktop computer being used to fill the username and password parts of a login form, and a mobile phone providing the information for the second factor.

    Keeping 2FA Secrets in a Password Safe?

    I use my password manager to generate TOTP second factor codes. I know this is controversial, with some folks claiming it reduces multifactor authentication down to a single factor and is therefore no better than just a username/password, but I disagree, and I can explain why.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (978 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 26 January, 2023
  • Kev Quirk: Ten Years of Blogging

    My thoughts on Kev Quirk's learnings from ten years of blogging.

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    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 5 comments
    • posted 23 January, 2023
  • A party of unlikely characters stands around and points accusingly at the "murderer" among them: it's Kirsty.

    Murder in the Library

    Our first in-person murder mystery party in a long time was a success, and a great time was had by all.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (783 words)

    • Article
    • posted 22 January, 2023
  • A French Bulldog in a blue jacket stands on a newly-constructed wooden footbridge. The footbridge is sandwiched into a hedge and spans a ditch separating two fields. The dog is sniffing at the bridge, as if she's hunting for something.

    Archived GC8W7QW Forgotten Bridge

    For the second time, the council removed a footbridge in which I'd hidden a geocache... but this time they didn't warn me first!

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    • Checkin
    • to GC8W7QW
    • posted 16 January, 2023
  • A white man wearing simple round spectacles with a silver wire rim, his finger to the corner of his mouth, looks into the camera.



    Beginning to prepare/test my costume for an upcoming murder mystery party, I glanced into the mirror and briefly didn't recognise myself. Glasses can do so much to change your face shape!

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    • Note
    • 5 comments
    • posted 14 January, 2023
  • Alignment chart "for Hasbro's newest character", with 9 cells. Lawful Good reads "The OGL will be strengthened to protect third-party creators and clarify our IP's boundaries." Neutral Good reads: "Let's get the community together to collaborate on future licensing." Chaotic Good reads: "Fuck it, we're going to Creative Commons the whole thing." Lawful Neutral reads: "The OGL will remain the same for OneD&D as it was for 5e." True Neutral reads: "Following community feedback, we're not going to change the OGL at this point." Chaotic Neutral reads: "We're going to leak version after version until you have absolutey no idea what's coming." Lawful Evil reads: "The OGL 1.1 will be implemented with the same text as seen in the leak." Neutral Evil reads: "The awful things in the leaked version aren't representative of the awful things that will be in the final version." Chaotic Evil reads: "The new OGL will only apply to SDL words with more than two vowels in, regardless of translation language."

    Hasbro Alignment Chart

    Hasbro seem to be rolling up a new character. Maybe this'll help them.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (13 words)

    • Note
    • 15 comments
    • posted 13 January, 2023
  • Screenshot showing my webpage, "The Page With No Code". Using white text (and some emojis) on a blue gradient background, it describes the same thought process as I describe in this blog post, and invites the reader to "View Source" and see that the page genuinely does appear to have no code.

    The Page With No Code

    View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (654 words)

    • Article
    • 11 comments
    • posted 11 January, 2023
  • Ideal #2 (SMBC)




    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
    The SMBC comic that came out this weekend was perhaps the best birthday present the Internet could provide.

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    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 9 January, 2023

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