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  1. quote:

    Originally posted by Michael Blitz:

     

    When I log on to find new caches in the sysyem, i usually click on "UK" on the homepage and then look at the hiders name, this usually gives me a good enough idea of whether they are close or not. I used to use the "cache map" but i tend not to now because it takes ages to load. Teasels map is good but as G:UK doesn't get cache info nas soon as it comes online, it can be a bit behind.

     

    Mike

     

    This forum post is copyright 2003 to Michael Blitz and may not be re-produced in part or full without prior written consent.

     

    Copyright 2003 All rights reserved


     

    In another thread, I posted a reply to the above message just because I wanted to see how it felt to breach somebody's copyright. And it felt gooooood! Unfortunately, it led to a lot more off topic posts by others. So to avoid swamping that topic I have reproduced it here (in itself a breach of copyright) so that everybody can have a chance to breach Michael's copyright (sorry Michael) without upsetting any topic starters.

     

    If you want to breach Michael's copyright, just post a reply to this message using the double-quote button.

     

    If you are Michael, please do not post a message saying we have permission to reproduce this message cos it'll spoil the fun icon_smile.gif

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  2. quote:
    Originally posted by The Targett

     

    We have not put a mailto on our web site. As it could be miss used, but rather a form to fill in, it then gets sent to the right email address.


     

    What's this address then?:

     

    k*******zATw*******e.co.uk

     

    In case you're interested, it was embedded in the HTML source of your web form (without the obfuscation that I put in) for sending an e-mail (right click on the form frame and select "view source"). The average e-mail harvesting bot doesn't care that it won't get rendered. It'll just look at the HTML source

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

     

    [This message was edited by jeremyp on March 15, 2003 at 04:05 PM.]

  3. quote:
    Originally posted by Norfolk & Goode:

    You should change your logs.

     

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=23295

    If you didn't find the cows, then you didn't find the cache. This is a "Not Found"


    It's a virtual. The answer might be zero, but the fact that it's a virtual means the cows probably aren't real ones. If they have been removed, the cache needs disabling so a "not found" log would have been useful to the cache owner to give him a clue to go and check.

     

    quote:

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=16120

    "I had a quick rummage but was unable to locate the cache."


    Yours was the first log since October. I always think carefully before attempting caches that haven't been found for ages. It could be that several people have looked, not found but decided not to log. IMHO not logging at all is worse than logging a found when you didn't actually find. At least the text of your logs says "not found".

     

    quote:

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=14040

    "I'm sorry I couldn't find it. "

    You log says it all. This is a "Not Found"


    You mention something in your log that was only referred to in the encrypted part of the cache page. Etiquette says you should encrypt the log.

     

    There are a few unwritten rules of etiquette wrt logging.

     

    1. Log failures as well as success. In a way logging failures is more important to the cache owner than a success. It might be saying something important viz, the cache is gone. You might think it's a dent in your ego, but after a while you'll come to think of the failure logs as being like scars. If you don't understand that, it's because you haven't seen Lethal Weapon 3.

     

    2. If your log gives away anything that is in the encrypted part of the page, encrypt your log.

     

    3. Be honest

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  4. quote:
    Originally posted by Mancunian:

    Say joe public with the full page picture of the Uzi in his head had found that cache, the result could have been armed police watching for the next person to find it on a just in case scenario.


    I would hope that the armed police would have a better sense of perspective. People who get hysterical about spent bullets should not be allowed out with guns. And before you bring up the case above again, there is a difference between safely disposing of possibly dangerous ammo and staking out a cache with a SWAT team.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  5. The cache owner told me that the case in question was spent and not dangerous. He's taken it out anyway.

     

    I don't think there is any problem with empty cartridge cases myself unless somebody with experience in the field of firearms tells me otherwise. I think the difference between a spent cartridge case and a loaded Uzi submachine gun is several orders of magnitude and a geocache with a dead bullet in it probably won't make the front page of any newspaper.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  6. quote:
    Originally posted by Team Blitz (Michael):

    When I log on to find new caches in the sysyem, i usually click on "UK" on the homepage and then look at the hiders name, this usually gives me a good enough idea of whether they are close or not. I used to use the "cache map" but i tend not to now because it takes ages to load. Teasels map is good but as G:UK doesn't get cache info nas soon as it comes online, it can be a bit behind.

     

    Mike

     

    This forum post is copyright 2003 to Michael Blitz and may not be re-produced in part or full without prior written consent.

     

    Copyright 2003 All rights reserved

     


     

    Just thought I'd breach your copyright icon_smile.gif

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  7. I am one of those people who doesn't really see the point mainly because I never use the search by country, but always the search for nearest to your home coordinates. It doesn't matter to me if I am the first visitor or not. Round here first visitor after Tim and June is more important a) because you will not get there before Tim and June and :D there may be a bear in the cache.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  8. quote:
    Originally posted by Naefearjustbeer:

    I have tried my etrex against all my different car and bike speedos that I have and not one of them read faster than the gps


    In this country car manufacturers must fit speedometers that do not read slow. As it is almost impossible to make one that is 100% accurate, they actually aim at making them a little bit fast hence the reason your GPSr is slower than all of the examples you mentioned. The police OTOH always calibrate their speedometers so they know exactly how fast they are going.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  9. quote:
    Originally posted by Omally:

     

    Vehicle speedo's are normally calibrated toa higher level, thus making you think you're going faster than you really are.


    By higher level, you mean faster than they are supposed to, not more accurate.

    quote:

    Formula one race teams use GPS to calibrate speedometers... go figure!


    Racing cars generally don't carry speedometers. I guess GPS would be useful for telemetry purposes though. The Garmin product sheet says mine is accurate to about 0.05 metres/sec - 0.2 km per hour.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  10. quote:
    Originally posted by Pharisee:

    quote:
    Originally posted by Tim & June:

     

    Now, as I understand it "A walk on the wild side" has something to do with transvestites. I don't believe this of Nia. icon_biggrin.gificon_biggrin.gificon_biggrin.gif

     

    Sorry John, I know what you really meant, just could not resist it.

     

    Tim & June (Winchester)


     

    Well there you go... I had no idea that there were dubious second meanings to a simple phrase like that. You learn something every day. Today I've learned that our erstwhile moderators are perhaps not as shining white as they would have us believe. icon_biggrin.gificon_biggrin.gificon_biggrin.gif

     


     

    Nope, they just know a bit about the last track on side 1 of "Transformer" by Lou Reed. (track 5 on the CD for the young'uns).

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  11. quote:
    Originally posted by Kouros:

    would now be the time to introduce a standard style cache box? At least, a design that would not be misconstrued as anything else, and only as an option.

     

    Perhaps, for example, a waterproof metal container of a different shape to the Ammo Boxes


     

    I can think of two objections to this idea which sounds great in principle.

     

    • Caches sometimes need to be tailored to the location. I did Eye Level the day before yesterday - it would certainly need a non standard container

    • a specially designed metal container would neither be easy to get hold of nor cheap.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  12. quote:
    Originally posted by Sel:

    I appear to have got off on the wrong foot with you guys, especially JeremyP.

     

    I didn't realise how sensitive you all seem at the moment.


     

    It was just the tone of your post and your profile said 0/0 so I assumed that you were a troll and responded in kind icon_smile.gif

     

    Back to the topic:

     

    I wasn't too concerned in the case I described above, but Naefearjustbeer's post makes me think it *might* be an unfired blank. I'm going to do some research and try to find out.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  13. quote:
    Originally posted by Sel:

    In fact it seemed pointless to bringing it up. Must we question everything we find in caches now?


    I see no harm in questioning anything if I want to. Sometimes you learn something from it.

     

    Your statement is grammatically incorrect BTW. "we find" would imply that *you* have found something in a cache. Your profile suggests this is not the case.

     

    You failed to address the second part of my post which was not about spent cartridge cases which IMHO is definitely not pointless.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  14. I did a cache the other day and found it contained a spent cartridge case (i.e. used to contain a bullet) with the end where the bullet used to be crimped shut. My heart nearly stopped when I first saw it because I thought it was live ammunition.

     

    Firstly, is this acceptable cache contents? My feeling is that the answer is probably "yes". Secondly what do you do if you do find live ammo?

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  15. quote:
    Originally posted by Morseman:

     

    The problem there is that I'm not a subscriber, so I wouldn't want to remove the caches from others who are not members either.


     

    I think it was suggested as a temporary measure to find out if the trasher was finding them by accident or not. Don't forget the Trasher is removing your caches from members and non members alike.

     

    Anyway, you may not be able to log MoC caches as a non-member so that idea is out unless you want to give gc.com some of your hard earned cash.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  16. The difference between drinking in pubs and from caches is that pubs and other establishments that sell consumable products have standards of hygiene to maintain. If people get ill as a result of eating / drinking stuff from a pub, there is legal redress available.

     

    Hmmm, actually it makes me think: if somebody places food in one of my caches and somebody else subsequently gets ill from eating it, am I in any way liable? What about the person who put it there?

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  17. quote:
    Originally posted by el10t:

    The echoecho site is good, not just for the html reference but for lots of other stuff like ASP tutorials etc.

     

    Rich

    _mobilis in mobili_


     

    That's pretty cool. Only problem is that it lists all the tags in UPPERCASE. In HTML 4.0 and XHTML this is illegal (case sensitive tags are a backward step IMHO).

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  18. quote:
    Originally posted by Pharisee:

    So... is there a simple list anywhere of the html codes that I can use to change basic things like text font, size and colour... please?

     


     

    What I used to do before I started writing serious HTML pages was do a "view source" on a relatively simple page to see how other people did it.

     

    Or you could try the W3C Getting Started Guide. All you have to remember is that for cache pages you are already inside the

    tag.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  19. There is no real organisation to geocaching in the UK. In the absence of any official structure the moderators / approvers have by default taken on the role of "leading" geocaching in the UK.

     

    Most of our moderators were appointed at a time when there were only a handful of cachers in the country (before my time) and they probably all knew each other fairly well, so they were probably appointed by consensus. Anyway, they generally kept fairly quiet, limiting their actions to strictly doing the job. I do not imply any criticism. I think they've done a good job on the whole and deserve our support and thanks.

     

    Tim and June (the latest moderators) seem to be taking a much more proactive role devoting a lot of time and energy to the organisation of caching and promotion etc etc. You could argue that they should have been democratically elected. I would point out that they were democratically elected. We had a forum thread for nominations followed by a poll to elect them - well maybe the poll didn't happen because they were so obviously going to win it. If we had an election now for geocaching spokesperson in the UK, I think the result would be the same.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

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