Month: August 2023
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Found GC8C4TE WAG 5 - Battle
This checkin to GC8C4TE WAG 5 - Battle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Another excellent bit of camoflage here, on what has so-far appeared to be a well-loved but well-maintained series. The geopup and I went back and forth a few times before we found the correct host, but …
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Found GC54DD8 WAG 4 - Chiltern Way Extension
This checkin to GC54DD8 WAG 4 - Chiltern Way Extension reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Unfortunately, my dedicated GPSr had been left turned-on after my last geocaching/geohashing/whatever expedition, and I hadn't realised until I was just setting off this morning. I tried to charge it in the car but …
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Found GC54DB8 WAG 3 - Cleeve Corner
This checkin to GC54DB8 WAG 3 - Cleeve Corner reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The time before last that I was in Goring - the first of my now-three visits - was for a birthday/garden party on 24 June 2018. My eldest - then only four years old - …
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Found GC54DAM WAG 2 - Cow Hill
This checkin to GC54DAM WAG 2 - Cow Hill reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The last time I was in Goring was on 9 June 2022, when I cycled here via Eynsham, Abingdon, and Didcot. I enjoyed a meal at at Whale Inn in Streatley, then meandered down into …
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Found GC54D9K WAG 1 - See the light
This checkin to GC54D9K WAG 1 - See the light reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Ignoring times that I've passed-through, I've only ever visited Goring twice before. It's time to rectify that! This morning, the dog and I drove down from Stanton Harcourt (near Witney), parked up, and begun …
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Watch Together with WhatsApp on the side
For a Virtual Fringe Festival party, I hooked up OBS Studio and Owncast with WhatsApp Web on the side. Here's how I did it.
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Double-Bluetooth
The problem of "needing to be able to hear from two Bluetooth sources at once" is so real for me that I came up with a solution that I genuinely use all the time. You're not going to like it, though.
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Paul Labyrinth
An open-source program that combines WikiData with a random generator to come up with almost-invariably inaccurate but sometimes hilarious facts.
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Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?
Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs!
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Inclusivity
The 'B' is not for Buses.
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.well-known/feeds
.well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think?
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Batman's World
I do not claim to have a good explanation nor excuse.
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Posted a note for GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club
This checkin to GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Enjoyed solving this puzzle, although possibly not 100% in the way the author intended (I spotted some mathematical quirks that gave me a shortcut/cut down the number of possibilities for matching first and surnames!). Now I …
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Couldn't find GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica
This checkin to GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here this morning for the geopup and I. The undergrowth has come through incredibly thick your summer, and we had to work hard to hunt in likely locations. (The hint didn't help …
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Found GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett
This checkin to GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy find while out on a dog walk. Not been out this side of the wood before! Might have struggled to find the GZ were it not for the remnants of a "geo trail" through the dense …