mellers

Right. Well as were truly at the guessing stage, I'll go for 1989.

Thanks for the reply

Does anyone know if there is an update as to whether the Blue Switch souvenir (scheduled for 2nd May) will be going ahead on that date? Perhaps a lackey could let us know.

This is because the display of EXIF data from photos was never part of the GME add-on. It was provided by the project-GC web browser extension, details of which can be found here: https://project-gc.com/Home/UserScript Since inception, the project-GC add-on has gone through many changes with certain features being removed or diluted over time. Display of co-ords from the EXIF data (where present) is one of the things I've seen evolve significantly. While it was originally found on the main cache page, these days it's now only on the gallery page - and of course only present where a photo originally contained such metadata. While the current list of features given by project-GC themselves, doesn't mention EXIF data specifically, it may be included under the somewhat vague "Add links to Project-GC gallery where suitable": Features of the script: Add to Virtual GPS straight from Geocaching.com. Add challenge checkers to Geocaching.com automatically. Make copy friendly GC-Code and geocache page link. Add link to the PGC Live map from geocache pages. Duplicate latest logs to the top. Add a reverse geocoded address below the coordinates of a geocache. Remove the UTM coordinates. Add favorite point data from Project-GC. Add links to Profile stats after every geocachers name. Tidy up Geocaching.com a bit. Most focus has been on the geocache page. Collapse download links. Add links to Project-GC gallery where suitable. Add links to map bookmark lists. Automatically decrypt hints. Add elevation data after geocache coordinates. Remove disclaimer from geocache pages. From time to time, some of the features stop working. For example, at the moment, hints are not automatically being decrypted and that's been a problem for a while. I suggest you install the extension, go to a gallery page with photos that you know include co-ords within the EXIF data and see if they are displayed on screen, on that page. You don't need to be a paying project-GC customer to view it.

I feel your pain. It's making my use of lists as a planning tool for my caching-trip-days-out horrendously laborious. I'm going to have to go back to Notepad++ at this rate and abandon using lists altogether. It's such a shame really as I was careful to explain in detail what I used them for, when they were at the consulting stage a year or so ago and now nearly all the functionality I used to embrace is gone.

No, this was working up until a few days ago with "new lists" and was the only workaround possible to enable me to populate the text box and add the list entry at the same time. It now takes ages to accomplish these two tasks.

Hi Ice- and Happy New Year! I can certainly still do what you describe above by an ordinary left-click - but until a few days ago, was also able to open the hyperlink in a new tab with a standard right-click option, too. The benefit to me was that the opened tab also provided the text box underneath for the details of the list entry. For a solved puzzle, that was mostly the HINT if not provided on the GPSr in the field. I use it for other things too, though such as details of qualification for a challenge cache list or parking co-ords distance and parking description when I'm using lists for planning a day out... or I used to (A) I could both add the item to the list AND write the hint in there at the same time - which was a quick way for me to populate that text box. (B) Now I have to add the geocache to a list. Then refresh the cache page to show the list on the right hand side of the cache page, then open the list in full (crossing my fingers that it's not more than 500 items lone which many of mine are so I don't have to visit page 2), then used Ctrl+F to find the entry, then click on the pencil item.... and only then can I add the parking details co-ords, distance to cache etc. It's taking more than twice as long. The benefit to me was that I could so something in sentence (A) above in one go - whereas now have to go through the whole rigmarole of paragraph (B)... every time I add something to a list. This is just to clarify for anyone else who might have been confused by my original post. Thanks for trying to help, though, ice! Kind regards Mellers

From any cache page, it should be possible to right-click the 'Add to list' hyperlink which should then display the standard Chrome menu for such an action. These options include 'Open link in new tab', 'Copy link address' etc. From today, this menu does not appear when right-clicking this particular hyperlink and instead I am presented with the standard right-click menu which would normally appear when right-clicking on a blank area. Please reassure me that this is not a new 'feature' and you have decided not to allow us to enter list details at the same time as creating a new entry - as this will create a hell of a lot of extra work. Please fix what I hope is a bug.

Ding! Your turn...

Which actor played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, before Michael Gambon took over.

Smarties? That's the only one where i can think orange is different - it seems to be the only one which actually tastes of anything!

Ding! Any amount snow observed (even a single flake) to be falling, anywhere within the UK during the 24 hours of Christmas Day. Over to searcherdog.

To help get things moving with this one, I'll mention that the two correct parts are now shown above... just the other two to think of, now WHERE (geographical area), (we now know it's not in London) in WHAT STATE (condition) (we now know it's not 'settled') Why not have a guess?

Oooh, Well done Marty for getting some of it right - but not all of it yet for the ding. If it helps anyone (others and you, if you decide to have another guess at some point), we can play it like that old Mastermind board game (nothing to do with the TV quiz show). You've got TWO of the FOUR correct. Apologies if I didn't make the 3rd bit clear enough. You've actually had a brilliant stab at that even so... and precisely worked out the sort of thing I was getting at - although I won't give it away if that was one of the right or wrong answers in the end. It may clarify things if I re-state that the definition includes what condition or state the snow itself must be in.

I am getting this message on many various pages on a frequent basis now (a repeat of the same problem experienced earlier in the week). Refreshing the page does not result in a solution. No update on Twitter (as advised on the error screen). Could we have some reassurance that the teckies are on the case, please?

What's the Met Office definition of a UK White Christmas? Given that this is quite a strict definition which is also used by the bookies (and there's lots of scope for frustration for anyone who gets some but not all of it), I'll be clear that the ding goes to the first person who can say: HOW MUCH snow must be observed, WHERE (geographical area), in WHAT STATE (condition) and WHEN.

I'll throw White Christmas in to the ring (Bing Crosby) even though it's been mentioned as a previous wrong answer to another question, recently and probably isn't right here either!

Oh, and another thing (actually two more problems; the first is made worse by the second)... Multiple edits of one list entry text box is now unnecessarily laborious and time-consuming. Before the changes, re-editing the information I had typed in to the box was a simple matter of a one-click process to re-open the editing box... where all the information I might have added a few seconds before would be correctly displayed. Now to RE-edit an entry, clinking more than once on the pencil icon effectively ignores anything I've just added and everything I've just typed is missing. The whole page must be refreshed, to be able to add to previous edits. Incidentally, this is happening more than before (I'm having to do more re-edits to correct errors) because the edit box itself is so tiny and so user unfriendly. Refreshing the page doesn't take you to exactly the point on the page that you were previously viewing (as it did before and as it does elsewhere on the site, still). Having refreshed, I'm dumped back at the top of the list. I then need to laboriously find the place I was at, which, in a list of several hundred items, isn't instantaneous. Even Ctrl + F doesn't always help as, any hacking of the URL that I'd been forced to do to look at the second half of the page is now lost and I have to hack again, if what I want to find is on the second page.

As Boggin's Dad seems to be AFK for the moment, (and it's been a week since the last answer was posed), I have googled the answer and wonder if everyone is OK with us giving a collective community ding to Optimist on the run, just to get the thread going again? He got it right!

Some observations when using Chrome (and using A4 paper in Europe, may be different for other browsers and paper formats)... Printing is broken where a page crosses from one sheet of paper to the next; I have found that the top half of a character will print on the first sheet, the bottom half on the second. Not very legible in the field. When printing. personal list information gets cut off the right-hand side of the sheet and does NOT wrap around to the next line. For example. this weekend I had written myself a note about parking and found that I was presented with: "Parking N<xx xx.xxx Wxxx xx.xxx> on-street residential end of have to although would need to reverse out" and had was left with no idea what information was missing. Printing now consumes vastly more paper than it used to. I recently went on a long caching expedition with nearly 600 caches on the list (just escaped the new system - phew!) and when printed on the old system, it consumed 85 sheets of paper. Out of interest I previewed how many sheets the new system would need, and was told it would be 156 !! Aside from the ongoing printing issues: Like others I am still waiting for the option of viewing 1000 caches without having to hack the URL When viewing lists on a mobile device, any and all information that I have typed under each cache is completely absent - all I get is a simple list of the caches. Given that I use this information for parking co-ordinates, distance to GZ and what I might expect to find at the parking co-ordinates (see earlier point) you have effectively rendered lists useless to me now as a planning tool. In the past, lists were my go-to option and the first step when planning a trip was to create a list which would serve as my guidance document in the field. This is now almost impossible as you have taken away almost all important functionality.

From the fashion of the day that I can picture them all in, it feels like it should have been Elizabeth I

I've just spent my first morning editing list entries (to include extra info I need for future caching trips and qualifying caches for challenge cache lists) and I have to admit it's really difficult on a PC. The edit box is EIGHT lines tall and apparently NOT EXPANDABLE. For entries with anything more I have to use the slider on the tiny panel. For entries with 50 or so lines, this is really user-unfriendly, as the box won't let me see everything I've typed at once. Please consider PC users... (even if we have to take 2nd place to phone users these days) and re-expand this edit box (or give me the ability to expand it) so I can see a screen's worth or the whole list entry at once if I need to.

I'll give that to Optimist on the run. It's Sir Rowland Hill. Over to you matey.

I sincerely hope that these 'additional points' include the ability to view 1000 caches at once and to restore the 'Ctrl+click' functionality to open a cache page in a new tab.

Am surprised that this has stumped the usual crowd... perhaps my childhood interest in stamp collecting has led me to believe this bit of pub trivia is more well-known than it actually is. Here is the chap in question (on a stamp appropriately, enough) He was knighted and his DoB-DoD are: 1795 - 1879 The first stamp to utilise his idea was the Penny Black.