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Hornet froze in terror. Had he really heard the sound of doom? The icy chill of fear spread through his trousers and out onto the carpark as Pid uttered the fateful words "fancy coming night caching with me?" again. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Pid's zimmer frame develops an oil leak. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Topics have yellow icons if they have changed since the last time you logged in. This means that if you read a topic, its folder stays yellow until the next time you log in. The way it tells when you logged in last is by the cookie in your browser I think, so if you clear out the cookies or use a different machine, more or less everything will go yellow. Also, if you use the site regularly such that your log-in session never expires everything will gradually go yellow. I get around this by always going through the login page each time I visit the forums. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

The couple on the right look like el10t/rich and claire, which means my nephew - Sam aged 1 and three quarters - who is with them is probably saying: "look mum, that man in the van needs some pants like mine." ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

My site had three times its weekly average in the last seven days. Unfortunately, I can't tell what the increase is for my geocaching page is, but in terms of bytes transferred it is now at the top of the league. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Have a look at Garmin's new PDA Nice idea, but costs a fortune ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by The Northumbrian: What happens if you get hit by a ball whilst walking across these two fairways, would you have a legal claim ( Postumous of course) Interesting point. I suspect that golf clubs must have some sort of liability insurance against that sort of thing, but I don't know. Perhaps Dan and Pid would like to find out for us. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Tim & June: Getting delivery of these new signature items could be somewhat time consuming and will slow down our caching, but I know I'm gonna enjoy it. They're called 'Xaviers' click http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/7100_200.jpg for a photo. That's a good idea, a June shaped baby holder. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Let me add my thanks to the Blitz family before this thread goes way off topic. Now, what was Terry Wogan's joke? ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Huga: Lowest mileage could work...or just an on-foor job (although that discriminates against those that can't jog or run) I don't think I've met any geocachers that can jog or run ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

One of the reasons I always carry an OS map with me is so that if I get into a dispute about whether I'm allowed to walk across piece of land "X" I know that I'm on firm ground (so to speak). There are always going to be issues with people complaining even though you are in the right and there does seem to be a high proportion of land-owners who get very rude and agressive. Maybe that's because the polite thoughtful ones know that it's legal for you to walk across your land on public footpaths. BTW Pid, when you did my cache yesterday, if you'd approached the last part from the North you could have done so by crossing a golf course. This is not something I'd recommend in daylight because the public footpath goes straight across two fairways and you stand a good chance of being hit by golf balls. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

While we're all plugging AV software, I also have not had a virus for ages, but that's because my computer of choice is a Macintosh with OS X. Viruses for this OS are *very* rare. In fact I don't think any have been written yet. I'd recommend it to anybody except that GPS software is quite hard to come by for it . ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

The activity at the first Winchester Cachers Meet was a similar Treasure Hunt. The clues were virtual caches throughout Winchester and there were questions to answer for points (and what do points mean?). The whole thing was designed to be done on foot. We made two mistakes 1. there were too many questions - it took three hours or more to complete. 2. the finishing post was at a view point overlooking Winchester. I had the idea that I would be able to watch the cachers running around like headless chickens whilst swigging cold beers from an ice box. Unfortunately, it was a bitterly cold and wet day and it was suggested by several participants as well as Tim & June (who supplied the prize) that a pub as the finishing post would have been a much better idea. I have to say, I was forced to agree with them. If you're going to do an on foot based hunt, fastest round would be an appropriate method of finding a winner, but if it is to be a car based hunt, you should use lowest mileage as the criteria (you don't want to encourage Colin McCraes on public roads). Also, you need to stagger the start times. With the Paul Blitz hunt yesterday, it was easy to spot the caches due to the number of people crowded round typing coords into their GPS receivers. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by TreeBeard (Pid): Well from where I am standing I do not see your point because I think these people are rude! The message was nowhere near as rude as just throwing the box away. If they owned the land, things might have got quite nasty in a legal sense. quote:I believe that the people do not know the meaning of a "PUBLIC" footpath, this is a classic example of a non-cacher believing that all the land near them is their own- it doesnt depict cachers as bad people attall it just shows how toffee nosed some people can be. Know your facts before you start a rant. If it's a public footpath you do not even have the right to ride a mountain bike along it. It has to be a bridleway before you can do that. quote: No cacher is an OIKE, thats for certain Statistically, there are enough cachers that there probably are some. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Wronskian:I picked Notepad instead of Wordpad for a couple of reasons. Obviously, use your preferred text editor. I only chose wordpad because it could deal with files larger than 32Kb and because it could deal with Unix files (different line terminator). quote: As for EasyGPS, a clumsy-but-functional workaround would be to change all your shortcuts to a batch file that runs EasyGPS and then silently runs something to check the menu associations and restore them if necessary. I could code that up if people would find it useful (although I might volunteer Huga for the task seeing as he's in the coding mood!) Another good work around. I think it would be better to get the folks at easygps to fix their product. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by el10t: quote:Originally posted by SimonG:So the Inside Out program has increased UK geocacher inflow by infinite percent. Gosh, at that rate all 59.8 million people in the UK must be geocachers by now. Errr no (and you a statistician!), 0 x infinity is anything you like depending on the context. On another note, there are now 11 replies on this topic and not one of them by a cacher-who-started-as-aresult-of-inside-out. I don't think it deserves its priority status anymore. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Very antisocial. There might be a workaround: Somewhere buried in your profile is a "send to" folder. If you put a short cut in there to easymps, then easymps will appear in the "send to" menu for every file. Whenever I get a new Windows system, the first thing I do is put wordpad in the "send to" menu. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Good luck to you all, I won't put it in with the Lions. Dan and Pid are going to be soooo disappointed ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Are you saying you are negotiating access for geocaching on a blanket basis (provided we keep to the rules)? If so, that is an excellent idea imho. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I've never thought of the term "newbie" as being demeaning, it's one I've come across a lot in geekdom. It's just shorthand for "person who is new to the activity". You're a newbie for as long as you feel like. Nobody has to "prove themselves" as geocachers as far as I am concerned. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Teasel: It's a pity that geocaching.com don't publish the country cachers come from in their profile. I fully understand why home coordinates are not revealed, but there seems little harm in revealing the country. In 99.999% of cases you are probably right although if I put my mind to it, I could probably think of a scenario where it could do harm. Anyway, if the cacher wants you to know where he/she comes from, they can put the info in voluntarily e.g. look at my profile. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Teasel: I don't see a problem with legal but dangerous caches, so long as potential cachers are in no doubt about what is involved, preferably before they set off. Hmm, I think you're right about that otherwise there would be endless arguments about what constitutes "too dangerous". I did one Blitz family cache which was just off the A34 (a busy dual carriageway) which would probably have been statistically far more dangerous than this hospital one had the description not mentioned the fact that you have to approach from the South to avoid getting run over. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Tim & June:No it's not just you, but the missing bit is only us placing the cache with Chris Packham which was shown right at the end of the show. That's the only bit I saw. you were very good in it! quote:team Blitz is arranging to show a video of Inside Out in its entirety Excellent. I'll be able to see the end of the rose-selling-in-pubs-scam (there might even be some rose sellers there on the day). I'll also be able to see the whole of the highly recommended convicts-in-a-band article. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by TreeBeard (Pid):LoL....Do me and Dan really need a badge?? We'll recognise you by the pallid complexion caused by never seeing sunlight, the coughing up of blood (asbestosis), head injuries (golfballs) and gunshot wounds. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Omally: I'd recommend contacting Garmin about that: a mate had a Vista for a while and had similar problems. Turned out to be faulty and the replacement she got worked fine. Of course, it can depend on wether all the satellites are round the horizon and the woods are in the way... It's a tradition, or an old charter or something... I've got to say that reception is variable under trees with my Vista, but it's always good enough so that I can find the cache using the clue if necessary. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching