rob3k

I've found that the innerHTML replace messes up some Javascript even when only text is replaced. Evident in the cache listing page. More details to follow... but check to see if you can close the map on top when expanded, and whether clicking on map at bottom open google map view. Ooo, I hadn't noticed that. I had the GM script running to remove the linebreak from after Print:, but I disabled it. I still use this to create a custom navigation bar at the top of my profile page, but I'll either work out how to do it walking through the DOM or leave it as is. I'm finding the custom links too handy to take them out.

I'd like to be able to schedule it, but I can deal with just once a week. I use it to update GSAK with the caches I've found. What would be just as useful for me, and less intensive on the servers, is a pocket query of caches I've found in the last 10 days (or 2 weeks or 1 month, whatever). I could use this to update my recent finds in GSAK and use the much larger query with all my finds only when I want to generate fresh stats or refresh my full My Finds DB. A rework of the 'Placed During' section to make this flexible - 'I found during', 'made inactive during', 'flagged for maintenance during' would be excellent.

Ah, the userstyles site is responsive for me today and I uploaded my CSS changes as one big Stylish style here: http://userstyles.org/styles/24193 It's commented so you can tweak it to remove bits or whatever. Nice thing with Stylish - if you don't like what this does just disable the script and you're back to where you were before loading it up. I use this along with the greasemonkey scripts Chrysalides created, this doesn't fix the 'Visit Log' wrapping problem for example.

Big thanks for getting the ball rolling on this, my profile looks pretty much the same as yours. I like seeing more info without scrolling... I also used the replace trick to add a custom link bar under the current Quick View with links to Field Notes, PQs, Bookmarks, Recent Finds, a preview of a PQ that gives me caches published within the last week, a few other odds and ends.

Oh my... This is awkward.

I think this has been mentioned, but there is no spacing between the short and long description on a cache page. Here's an example of a page with a short description (some cache's leave this blank) http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b2-d5c2c16d6be2 I'd think there should at least be a paragraph break there.

Guess what was going through my head as I opened this thread. Aarrgghhhh!! I'm afraid to ask... what song? I saw something about "scrollin'" but don't know what music is supposed to go with it. Is ignorance bliss? As for the other script, I'm not sure if I want to single out He Whose Avatar Is Shirtless on that site I must admit, though, that I feel a lot less provoked by his posts after replacing the avatar image. Very strange. And now with the knowledge gained from this current exercise, we can replace signature lines as well Or change login names... I use adblock to nix any weird avatar or sig images on forums. One guy had some really creepy image of a dog wearing glasses.

Actually, I think the only thing I really have a problem with is the excessive vertical white space. There are other little things, but if it wasn't for Visit Log wrapping to two lines on my profile page I probably wouldn't have cared enough to figure out work arounds.

Thanks for the tip - I didn't want to use another program, but if it works better... I'll give it a try. By the way, in case anyone is interested, I figured out why Prime Suspect's Quick Hints is not working. Look for all the "getElementById" - the element ID has changed. "Encrypt" is now "ctl00_ContentBody_Encrypt" and "Hints" is now "ctl00_ContentBody_Hints". Change the text and quick hints is now quick again. Wow, thanks again! Used that tip to fix the Log Find Counter script, the change isn't exactly the same, but it's the same basic idea. These lines need to be changed - current version commented out: //updated - rob3k //var e_LogIn = document.getElementById("Header_LoginUrl"); var e_LogIn = document.getElementById("ctl00_LoginUrl"); // updated - rob3k //e_TxtArea = document.getElementById("LogBookPanel1_tbLogInfo"); e_TxtArea = document.getElementById("ctl00_ContentBody_LogBookPanel1_tbLogInfo"); //updated - rob3k //e_ddLogType = document.getElementById('LogBookPanel1_ddLogType'); e_ddLogType = document.getElementById('ctl00_ContentBody_LogBookPanel1_ddLogType');

Added this with Stylish to contract some of the white space on the sidebar widgits on the My Profile page: @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document url-prefix("http://www.geocaching.com/my/") { .WidgetBody { line-height: 110% ! important; } } And this one to clean up the My Friends page: @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document url("http://www.geocaching.com/my/myfriends.aspx") { .FriendWidget { line-height: 110% ! important; } .FriendList { border-top:1px solid #a3a3a3; } } I wasn't happy with what my first change did to individual cache pages and changed it to: @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest) { table.Table {line-height: 100% ! important } } @-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.geocaching.com/my) { table.Table {line-height: 100% ! important } } so that it doesn't affect individual cache listings. Still collapses the log text on http://www.geocaching.com/my/geocaches.aspx but I don't look at that page very much so I wasn't too worried about it. This one will darken the color of alternating rows: The default doesn't really bother me, but I was on a roll and figured why stop now? @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document domain("geocaching.com") { table.Table tr.AlternatingRow td,.AlternatingRow,table.Table tr td.AlternatingRow,tr.Row1 td,tr.Row3 td,tr.Row5 td,tr.Row7 td,tr.Row9 td{ background-color:#dde1e8 ! important; } You can play around with the color on that one, add border lines if you want, etc. For example #eff4f9 is the BG color used for the coordinate box at the top of every cache page - that is a very slight change from the color used currently for alternating rows: #edf1f8. This doesn't work for search results as they define the background color on the table tags. e.g. <tr bgcolor='#FFFFFF'... Bleh. Tried uploading these to userstyles.org, but it's throwing errors on upload for me. To install any of these with Stylish: Right Click on the S -> Write new style -> Blank style Give it a name and copy in the code. If you like you could probably make one new style and you'd just need the @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); line once.

Instead of mucking around with files, you should try the Stylish extension for Firefox. Makes it easy to make CSS changes from within the browser, and also makes it easy to share those changes. Just grabbed it and it does make it a lot easier to apply CSS changes. Also, thanks for getting your GM scripts updated immediately, I use them every day.

Nice. If you also make this change to your userContent.css file it removes a lot of the white space in between lines of that table (and some other tables): @-moz-document domain(geocaching.com) { .Table {line-height: 100% ! important; } } Details on what this file is: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html Basically find userContent-example.css, rename it to userContent.css, paste the above in, close and restart firefox. I also added this line to the GM script: document.body.innerHTML= document.body.innerHTML.replace(/couldn't find/g,"DNFed"); document.body.innerHTML= document.body.innerHTML.replace(/District of Columbia/g,"D.C."); I didn't realize how easy it is to do a text replace with greasemonkey... I'll have to remember this for other sites, too. Very slick. Oh, interesting. So if the site used 'Visit Log' as part of an element's id, this script would change that and hose things up?

Since I was a beta tester for the new site, I have already updated most of my Greasemonkey scripts to work with the new layout. But in doing so, they are no longer compatible with the old layout, so I'm going to wait a couple of hours to make sure no show-stopping problems are found that necessitates going back. It's not that I don't have faith in the beta-testers, but history has shown that a wider audience often seems to find problems that the beta-testers missed. I will post a list of all my scripts, plus links to upgrade, in a future post. Just updated to the latest Bag O' Tricks. I was shocked that you had this working with the new layout so quickly. Bravo! Saw on your site that you even plan to get the VIP List working in the next few days. I love that one too!

A bomber will typically create on average about 10 practice bombs before they actually plant their first bomb on their target. They'll make these practice bombs to make sure they actually work, see how much damage will result, what improvements they want to make, etc. They'll set these bombs in remote areas usually in places like wooded areas or whatever is away from people. Many do not work and they're afraid to approach them to see what went wrong so they'll just leave them where they left them. A few years ago we went to a report of an abandoned 1 gallon paint can after someone had found another seemingly discarded paint can, the lid was partially on, opened it, and it went off. The trigger was rigged so when the lid was removed it triggered the explosion. In this case the yield was minimal due to loosely packed gun powder. The finder's injuries only amounted to burns. The other can was better packed and could have caused more serious injuries. On another occasion we located a portable TV that was rigged to detonate when it was turned on. We found it on the edge of town along a sidewalk. Fortunately someone found it and reported it as a possible stolen TV having been dumped. We had an informant who had earlier told us that a drug dealer in the area might be targeted with a TV bomb. Then this one shows up. We all got lucky on that one. When you read about something being bombed you can be 100% certain that the bomber had practiced making bombs before and somewhere out there it's very likely he left his practice "failures". As equally risky are discarged meth labs. Those can look like any normal household container or even 2 liter soda bottles. The residue can cause a person permanent damage. Now that is very interesting. Hadn't thought of that.

I don't use the word much myself, but I must admit I do use it from time to time. The thing that (mildly) grates me is when I see a log that says something like "Found a few muggles at ground zero with GPSrs also looking for the cache!" If they are looking for the cache with a GPSr, they are cachers not muggles! I'm going to start calling them the Others myself, when out and about. My wife is a huge Lost fan and will get a big kick out of that.

"Bomb-scare Bingo"... has a nice ring to it, but I doubt the bomb squad would related to the humor. I'm sure that by now, most of us have already figured out that the cache is No Blarney (GC1NBX3). I have to agree with the cache owner when she says, "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that a microwave plugged into a hollow tree stump would be mistaken for a bomb" If this can be considered a potential bomb (and we have already heard of a film canister being blown up as a potential bomb) then I doubt that there is anything we can do to avoid these incidents unless (maybe) all we hide are nanos. Just to be clear, my criticism is directed towards the way that these events get reported, not so much the actions of the bomb squad folks. In this particular case I can actually see why the container (a device with electronic components and a timer function) would have set off their hinky-meter. If it hasn't happened already, it's only a matter of time before the object a nano is attached to gets "rendered safe". Your intent was clear to me, at least. The comments section for the article is worth reading, too. Apparently this was well off into the woods, at least a mile from any houses. Microwave was plugged into an outlet attached to the dead tree. I loved this comment: What was it plugged into? A "current" bush? If you look at that cache page it's only 100-200 feet from a road - Westside Highway, so I wouldn't exactly say it's well off into the woods. I wouldn't say it looks like a spot to target for a bomb either, but it's not miles from anything.

I'll echo the many who have suggested Lock & Locks. They seem to hold up very well. Mainly they seem to fail when a finder neglects to seal up all 4 clasps or doesn't notice a bit of plastic baggie caught in the seal. Off brand Lock & Lock type containers are a mixed bag.

I've done this as well. This is a good option for any site with a clunky (or nonexistent) search function. If there are areas of the site that are premium only my guess is it's not indexed by google, but it's better than nothing.

It would be nice if he gave credit to the cache that spawned the idea, but I wouldn't get too bent out of shape about it. I assume he doesn't actually say on the cache page, "This is a puzzle idea I came up with myself." and it's a case where he just doesn't say where he got the idea? (Like most puzzle caches.) In the other guy's defense, pointing to the cache that gave the idea might give hunters more clues than he'd like for his new hide. No idea if this is, or could be, the case here. At any rate, a confrontational e-mail threatening to sue for copyright infringement is very unlikely to yield a desirable result.

Have you contacted the cache owner? I usually do that after I've beat my head on the wall for a bit with a puzzle. Then I mull over whatever help they offer for another week or two. Haven't gone back for a 2nd hint (that I can recall) yet, but I probably would if I needed it. EDIT: Check that - just did! Most puzzle owners are pretty helpful. I usually type up a nice message with all the stuff I've tried and why I think it must not be this or why I think some other bit is key to solving things. If you give the CO an idea of how close you are to the solve he or she can tailor the hint. However, don't be surprised if a puzzle owner prefers to hold off on giving any hints until there is a first find.

I have 4. The first 3 just happened and were fun, but a surprise. The last one I actually went for and it was a bit of a rush to make it and be first. Beat the STF by just 10 minutes, I later found out. It's fairly competitive to get them in my area and I can see why it would be fun for some.

url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=d80f1f26-bcd1-4dff-96a4-34f7ecea3cb8]Probably this cache[/url], or possibly this one Either way, no one has logged a find since Black Friday. One's been logged now, and on the right date... Could that really be it? It's all of 300 feet from parking.

This is a good idea! I like it, too. But I can imagine why it was shot down: too hard to make it retroactive, not accurate if a log gets deleted or backdated, too big a load on the server if it isn't static. I actually do this myself on nearly every found log, so of course think it would be great if the site did it automatically. It's fun to check my overall find number of a log when I happen to look at a cache I found a while back. It wouldn't necessarily be difficult to make it retroactive as you can already see every found log you've ever posted in order. But the devil could very well be in the details here, of course. I think this is one of those things that people who care about it just put the number in manually (or using a greasemonkey script) so there's an only slightly bothersome work around.

That is a neat trick, thanks for sharing it.

The real benefit of the premium membership is the pocket queries as you've already mentioned. After my first couple cache outings, when I realized it was taking me an hour or two to research where I wanted to go and print out 12+ cache listings, it was obvious that the premium membership was worth it for me. On top of not having to print them out, I also have a nice radius always loaded on my GPS so I can stop and grab caches along the way or in a place I didn't realize I'd end up without being out of luck. If it were my friend, I'd explain those advantages and tell him to stick to the free membership until he starts heading out to a park specifically to grab a half dozen or more caches. At that point - upgrade. I haven't used the iPhone app, but if that's an option it could be a good one. Not sure if caching using just the iPhone app would be a good solution or not. Seems like you'd get sick of hand transferring the coords from your iPhone to your more accurate GPSr constantly. But again, probably a good cheaper thing to go with until one sees how committed they are to the hobby. Although OTOH, 3 months of a premium membership is also just $10 and after 3 months your friend would know if he or she is going to stick with it.