Love2Fly

C'mon guys.. Sheez,, I am over 40, and teeny tiny font is not only uncomfortable,, it downright sucks. The cutsie little Easter colors in my account page are annoying, but I can hack it ,, no problem. I have a 19 inch monitor as it is,, just so I can read. The average age of a cacher has to be over 20. How about putting the fonts back where we all can read them....

Refreshed several times. Still a sick signal.. Are you sure your browser is not adding the www for you??

I think what is being referred to is geocaching.com. I had thought the site was down for days now, until the wap site worked, and I started trying things. www.geocaching.com is up and running, BUT, if you type in geocaching.com , (without the www ) a picture of signal pops up,, . Looks like he is sick, and the message is that the site is down for maintainence. No telling how many think the site is down right now.

Hey Snoogans, nice picture of you and the redneck outboard . As far as Quantum Leap, y'all just have to go do it. It's a fun cache. Read my logs. Ole' Snoogans sure knows how to throw a party.

Very cool ,, Thanks. Now if we could get benchmarks to run on the pocket query generator, I would be all set.

I bought a Palm Zire for geocaching. If I had to do it all over again, I would have waited a bit, or used paper. The Zire has only 2 MB of memory onboard. I cannot install MobiPocket Reader beacuse that program itself is over 2MB. I have to download my files in gpx format. Then use Spinner to turn them into html files , and then use plucker to convert them before I can Hot Sync them to my PDA. What a pain. This whole process takes at least a half hour, sometimes more. I wish that the GC.com would just provide the files in a simple palmdoc file as an option. On the smaller pda's memory is a premium. Normally I use TiBR (Tiny Book Reader) that is only 67kb. It reads palm doc files. Whole books are only 50-200k in doc format. By the time you put Plucker, and a small area full of caches in,, well,, there isn't much room left. Add that to the time it takes to do all the conversions, and you could have printed them all. Do yourself a favor,, and make sure your pda has at least 8mb of memory , so you can just download the MobiPocket file and be done in one easy step.

When I first started caching,, I had some big days. Now I still try to bag a few in the same area and visit as many as I can,, but if a real interesting location comes up, I stay and visit. You won't find me there too long though,, there are sooooo many caches out there. One of the best things about caching, for me, is seeing and visiting places I would have never gone without a little nudge.

I think the idea of posting corrected coords is fine. In my area that is the norm. I can remember a cache, "Woodmen of the world" that I visited 3 times to get to that log. Huge power lines created a "mirror" for the signal,, and the coords were pretty far off. Some cachers will travel 100 miles to log a cache, and that has to be taken into consideration. I always average my coords for at least 3 minutes,, and if they are off, I appreciate the help. Now,, as to the posting of links to spoilers. I have placed only 7 caches. Of the 7 ,, six are puzzles. I would ask the poster to remove the link on my puzzle caches. If they did not comply, I would delete it myself. Also,, I am working on a monster multi-puzzle cache to be placed soon. On a puzzle cache that I put that much thought and time into, the post would be deleted as fast as my fingers can type. Not everyone has the willpower required to not look at a spoiler. An extra special cache is a creation. That creation would be altered by a "give away" spoiler.