Month: August 2024
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Me: "This weekend I need to update these buildout scripts for Debian 12 and implement a new provider middleware."
Dog's expression: "Or we could just go for a walk?"
Me: "Or we could just go for a walk, sure."
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French Bulldog, outdoors, on a lead, her tongue sticking out.
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Found GC4MHJ0 Octo (MK Artwalks)
This checkin to GC4MHJ0 Octo (MK Artwalks) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Today's the last of three consecutive days that I've spent working in Milton Keynes. On each day I've taken a short walk while I've eaten my lunch to find a nearby geocache. This was today's.
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I'm not sure I've ever seen a parent look as awkward as the one whose kid, in a combined toilets/changing room, just pointed at me, saying: "Daddy, look! Look! That man's using his willy to pee-pee in the standing-up toilet!" 🤣
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Found GC2GR3Z The Brass Bands of MK - Secklow Brass
This checkin to GC2GR3Z The Brass Bands of MK - Secklow Brass reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I've been working in Milton Keynes the tail end of this week while my kids attend a ski camp at the X-scape centre. While eating my lunch today I came out for …
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Really really appreciate the warning sign at the pizza place I came to for lunch today.
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Commercial pizza oven with a decorative sign reading: really really hot.
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Roll Your Own Antispam
The Web contact form of a nonprofit I founded started attracting a huge volume of spam, and conventional tools weren't helping. But a little analysis allowed us to block almost all of it without compromising on accessibility, privacy, or the false-positive rate.
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Found GC4NX9Y Light Pyramid (MK Artwalks)
This checkin to GC4NX9Y Light Pyramid (MK Artwalks) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found the host easily, but had to wait for a gap in thir lunchtime dog walkers to be able to mount a good search. After checking in a few obvious places I picked something up and …
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Step/ski into my office! Today I'm working from a cafe overlooking an indoor ski slope where my kids are having lessons!
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Dan sits at his laptop in a cafe; ski lifts can be seen in the background.
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2024 in Videogames
With my busy schedule, I appreciate a video game that I can pick-up-and-drop at will and a prefer depth rather than quantity of content. This year, I've played and can recommend three games in particular - Horizon: Forbidden West, Thank Goodness You're Here!, and Tactical Breach Wizards.
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If the most useful thing I achieve this Bank Holiday Monday will have been to make it easier to post short geotagged notes from my mobile to my blog (and Mastodon), it will have been a success.
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Dan sits on the grass in a garden, with his French Bulldog.
This has been a test post. Feel free to ignore it.
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Found GC4PYCF Thames Path - Floodproof
This checkin to GC4PYCF Thames Path - Floodproof reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Excellent cache, which I was pleased to observe has the largest conceivable container possible for its hiding place: nice one! I love a good treetop cache!
Once I'd free the right tree, getting up was relatively easy: … -
Found GC8NW44 Thames Path - 91-DIVOC
This checkin to GC8NW44 Thames Path - 91-DIVOC reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Not convinced they my route through the 2m nettles to reach the host was optimal, but I made it through to this decent sized cache relatively unscathed. TFTC!
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Found GC4QAER Howard
This checkin to GC4QAER Howard reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found without difficulty but at W 001°14'16.7886", N 51°40'12.5960": the cache description provides a good clue though so it was easy to get back on track. TFTC
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Wrote note for GC4QAED Leonard
This checkin to GC4QAED Leonard reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Skipped this one as I'm still playing catchup to the rest of my group and wasn't interested in a long search. Many previous finders note that the coordinates are significantly off but I couldn't see anybody posting alternates. Maybe …
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Found GC4QAE6 Bernadette
This checkin to GC4QAE6 Bernadette reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a brief overshoot - too excited to finally be catching up to Ruth and the rest of my squad! - doubled back to find this easy location. Cache was lying on the floor which I assume isn't the …