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Month: February 2023

  • Screenshot showing a Thunderbird calendar popularted with strikes on every day in February.

    UK Strikes in .ics Format

    Need all the UK strike action in your calendar app? I just helped a coworker with that, and I'm happy to share the results with you.

    Read more (209 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 23 February, 2023
  • Image representing post: Yesterday's Internet Today! (Woo DM 2023)

    Yesterday's Internet Today! (Woo DM 2023)

    At a work meetup a fortnight ago I presented a "flash talk" about how I've made WordPress into a CMS for Finger and Gopher as well as the web, and what I learned by doing so.

    Read more (213 words)

    • Video
    • 12 comments
    • posted 21 February, 2023
  • A pair of tattie scone quesadillas sizzling in a pan.

    Scottish-Mexican Fusion Cookery

    Haggis tacos? Tattie scone quesadillas? Bean chilli stovies? I'm convinced there's mileage in Scottish-Mexican fusion cuisine, and I want to persuade you too.

    Read more (266 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 21 February, 2023
  • Dan, wearing a warm weatherproof black jacket and a purple "Woo" woolen hat, alongside a 9-year-old girl wrapped up in a faux-leapordskin hat and an iridescent coat, against a snowy hillside with rolling clouds.

    That Moment When You Forget Somebody's Dead

    For the first time in years, perhaps, I had that "moment of forgotting my dad was dead" thing.

    Read more (256 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 20 February, 2023
  • Dan and his mother stand in a stone circle, their arms spread wide and smiles on their faces.

    Found GC8A40R Brockholes Stone Circle

    This checkin to GC8A40R Brockholes Stone Circle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with the elder geokid plus my mother and sister while on a layover in Preston to break up our journey from Aviemore to Oxford. We're getting to visit quite a few some circles this half term, …

    Read more (67 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8A40R
    • posted 19 February, 2023
  • A smiling boy and girl in brightly-coloured coats hug the bottom of a very large wind turbine stem.

    Found GC6CTKF Cache Wars - Han Solo

    This checkin to GC6CTKF Cache Wars - Han Solo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Travelling down from Aviemore to Preston on a multi-stage journey back home to Oxfordshire, we stopped off at the visitor centre and took the tour of the wind farm. My 6 year old loves wind …

    Read more (101 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC6CTKF
    • posted 17 February, 2023
  • Found GCD6C2 Long Meg [Cumbria]

    This checkin to GCD6C2 Long Meg [Cumbria] reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Ruth, the kids and I love a good stone circle. This one's in better condition than the one nearest our house (for which I'm CO to the Virtual, GC88ZY9!). We chanced it and counted the stones twice …

    Read more (74 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCD6C2
    • posted 12 February, 2023
  • Found GCA1NZ4 Long Meg

    This checkin to GCA1NZ4 Long Meg reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find for the geokids, Ruth and I while out on a walk with the geokids from Ruth's father's house in Reagill. SL, TNLN, TFTC.

    Read more (26 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCA1NZ4
    • posted 12 February, 2023
  • Dan reaches up to touch a bust of Dr. Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach, Austrian chemist and engineer.

    Found GC2HF4T Plus Lucis

    This checkin to GC2HF4T Plus Lucis reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick find while exploring the city after spending a few days meeting work colleagues from around the globe. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK! TFTC/DFDC!

    Read more (57 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC2HF4T
    • posted 10 February, 2023
  • Found GC3CE1F Schubertkirche

    This checkin to GC3CE1F Schubertkirche reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Saw the cache almost right away but had to stand around for a while pretending to read something on my phone while muggles passed by. SL, TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.

    Read more (31 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC3CE1F
    • posted 10 February, 2023
  • Dan, wearing a grey hoodie, stands in front of a highly-decorated industrial chimney stack.

    Found GC5GFNB DG - Linie

    This checkin to GC5GFNB DG - Linie reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The second spectacular cache I've found from this CO. Absolutely amazing. Coordinates got me close, but it was only when I started looking around that I spotted something that didn't look quite right and found the cache. …

    Read more (41 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC5GFNB
    • posted 10 February, 2023
  • Found GC5DC7H Friedensbrücke

    This checkin to GC5DC7H Friedensbrücke reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Superb cache, my favourite in Vienna so far. Love the design; I might try to make one like this back in Oxfordshire, UK upon my return! FP awarded.

    Coordinates put me exactly where I needed to be. Fortunately I had …

    Read more (58 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC5DC7H
    • posted 10 February, 2023
  • Dan, wearing a purple "Woo" wooly hat, stands in front of the base of a statue of Johannes von Gott.

    Found GC91ZZ4 Ort der Barmherzigkeit - KH Barmherzige Brüder

    This checkin to GC91ZZ4 Ort der Barmherzigkeit - KH Barmherzige Brüder reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find while I stopped to tie my laces. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC91ZZ4
    • posted 10 February, 2023
  • Dan, wearing a grey hoodie and a purple "Woo" hat, holds a black puck-shaped geocache. Behind him, a concrete bridge support pillar is decorated with colourful graffifi.

    Found GCM8CB Urania

    This checkin to GCM8CB Urania reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I've been in Vienna for a week to meet work colleagues, and today - our meetings at an end and still with a few hours before my plane leaves - I decided to come out and find some local …

    Read more (153 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCM8CB
    • posted 10 February, 2023
  • Dan stands on a bridge over the River Wein (before it meets the Danube), pointing to a window in the distance of a hotel.

    Found GCR0YM Bridge over bridge

    I found my first Austrian geocache on a "bridge over a bridge" near the hotel where Automattic are this week having a meetup.

    Read more (31 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCR0YM
    • posted 6 February, 2023

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