NickPick
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I've found a californian geocoin in a cache, and to log it, their website wants to know my geocaching.com user ID number. I've had a look on my profile page, but I can't find it anywhere
How can I find it out?
Thanks
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So now all I need is a Game Boy Advance, a flash cartridge and a soldering iron.
There should be a flood of GBAs onto the ebay market in the next few months when the DS and PSP come out.
The article didn't seem to mention how big a map could fit onto the GBA. I wonder if it could take a whole OS landranger?
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.. but finally bit the bullet over the weekend and got this one.
I would just like to say that I think the heffalump hanging it's trunk over the side of the ark is so cuuuuuuuuuuuutttttttteee!!
Are you sure it's its trunk?
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The best online UK mapping is at www.streetmap.co.uk
www.multimap.com covers USA, UK and Europe to streetlevel, and a lot of the rest of the world at higher level.
Google have a beta version of US streetmapping out at http://maps.google.com
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I would advise using the WGS84 Latitude and Longitude. They are as noted by the cache placer. Just make sure you have the datum on your GPSr set to WGS84.
The OSGB co-ords have been converted by the site, and will be converted back by your GPSr in it's calculations.
There shouldn't be a great difference, but you might as well reduce the chance of error if possible.
Of course, it might be an interesting experiment (if you can be bothered) to input both, and see what the difference is. I might try that some time.
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My only concern is that it is near (obviously not within) a rabbit warren, and while taking today's reading I nearly trod on the freshly half eaten remains of one, so presumably it's also a popular spot with foxes.
Most wild predators - foxes, stoats, buzzards and whatever - will usually carry off their catch before tucking in. What you found is more likely to be the work of a feral or domestic cat, or dog.
On your future visits, it's worth checking to see if corpses and carnage are a regular feature around the warren. Some visiting cachers will accompanied by their youngsters - a number of whom will be at an age when they can get very upset about the poor ickle bunny-rabbits.
If it seems necessary, a discreet note on the cache page might be a good idea.
Conversely, some youngsters will be at the age when they find nothing more fascinating than a dead animal, and seeing a lovely decaying corpse would make their day!
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Thanks for the responses. I noticed after my OP that the page source code sizes the image to 400 wide and 200 high, so I guess it's there to insert a blank space under the profile, and using a 16byte image uses minimal bandwidth.
I had heard that spam email tracking is done with similar images as 'webbugs'
Thanks a lot,
Nick
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I've just noticed that at the bottom of a cacher's profile page, there's a transparent 4x4 pixel gif file, named "pixel.gif".
I only noticed it cos my browser's just been upgraded to IE 6, and it pops up a menu when I point at a picture on a page.
Does anyone know what the gif is for?
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Or, if I look a bit harder, the TB's name is actually "Rescue Lee" and has been to NZ and Derby.
It's owned by the same user. Looks like he released 3 bugs in memory of Lee.
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Good story, but strange that according to the TB log, Fireman Lee hasn't been anywhere near New Zealand.
Also a mention of one geocacher near Blackpool who's found 1300 caches - who could that be I wonder?
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You and me both HH - I have been racking my brain to think of an Avatar/Stamp for myself......
Any suggestions welcome!!!!
Laughalot
It's right there in your username. A laughing knight. I'm thinking of something like the hokesters' current avatar, but laughing heartily.
I'd offer to do something, but I'm useless at drawing.
I expect House of Boo might take commissions though?
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There you go, a yellow etrex which is more famous than SP!
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after a return trip to one cache to retrieve my Fisher Space pen, I have been sure to check my GPS, camera, car keys and mobile phone as I am leaving any cache location!! Need some sort of batman utility belt perhaps?
Utility belt would be a really good idea, unless you lost it
The usual problem I have is finding which pocket things are in... The trouser front pockets, knee pockets, back pockets, outer coat main pockets, inner pockets, map pocket, chest pocket, inner coat main pockets......etc, or is it in the rucksac pockets?
Perhaps I should just take one big bag and put everything in it. At least I'd know where it was.
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no pic of me your all so lucky
Domheknows from logForgot to mention that I took a photo of Deego as he never appears in photos and used the last one in the camera.
Perhaps that's what broke the camera!
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Whilst I personally don't see too much wrong with this particular post, commercial postings are against the forum guidelines, and if this one is allowed, we'll end up with many more.
Of course, there's nothing stopping the original poster from adding a link to their website in their signature.
The GPS bargains thread is a way for cachers to let others know about bargains. I'm sure that if the staff at millets started advertising their own shops there, it'd get closed pretty soon.
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Mama, life had just begun,
and now I've gone and thrown it all away
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testing 1 2 3
1 2
1, 2
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i have to say that i feel that soon there may be too many caches in the UK. Maybe it is time for a 6 month ban on placing caches?
Not in Hereford apparently
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LOL. But I thought that Red Kites were a protected species.
Mind you, they're getting to be quite common around here!
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I'm finishing work at 4pm and wondering "Hmmmm I wonder if there is a geocache nearby I can do?"
Sound familiar anyone?
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'The most extreme geo-cache ever placed was by Lord British on 19th July 2002. The inventor of the Ultima Online game series, he placed it using a Russian Mir subersible in the Atlantic Ocean. The cache is more than 1.4 miles underwater, at the bottom of the ocean near a hydrothermal vent. If you ever find it be sure to retrieve travel bug TB31F1' - go look it up!!
If anyone is interested here's the cache
But my etrex won't get a sattelite lock under water!
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Ah, the knowledgeable advice from the high street consumer electronics PFY!
I loved the old yellow pages ad where the block wanted to watch an old cine film - pimply faced youth's response was "Funny lookin' video!"
The cheapest USB-Serial connector you can get should do the trick.
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if you really wanted to hide something good..paint the box to match surroundings.it beats a black bin liner!
I haven't found any of Alibags' caches since she started painting them black, although I wasn't sure I was looking in the right place on the 2 I've tried (didn't take the cache sheet with me - doh!)
Talking of painting them to match, the other week, I found a micro which was beautifully painted a mixture of black and khaki, a true camoflage work of art. I found the micro OK, but still haven't managed to find the final cache after 2 trips (although one was when there was a light covering of snow)
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I couldn't agree more. BPBs are generally pointless. They just get ripped to shreds as the cache goes in and out of the hole, lots of centipedes and worms like to live in them, they collect stinky stagnant water in them, and let's face it, what's more durable - a tupperware box or a plastic bag?
I have removed one where it was getting really manky.
Fugawi Is Carp
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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I am proud to be in the bottom 100%
I was thinking about Fugawi, I still might have to look at the demo, but that doesn't appear to let you see the palm version as a demo.
Any Fugawi users with positive experiences care to comment?
Any Fugawi representatives listening?