unixboy

The mark history has my entry as a NF entry...

(1) Do you hunt Geocaches, BM's or Both. I do both... It depends on my mood... For some reason, though, I prefer BM hunting because not only is it fun, to me it feels useful... Sort of like voluntary community service. (2) If you do hunt BM's, do you log with GC.com, the NGS, or both? I log on both sites... All of my finds are logged on GC.com. On NGS, I log everything except BMs that have been recovered within the last three years and don't need description updates.

That's cool... I'll have to remember that next time I report a recovery since I'm an Eagle scout. In fact, since BSA can report, BM hunting might make a good activity for teaching scouts how to use a GPS and compass...

I thought about doing that, but other people may be interested in doing the same thing using Active Desktop. Not everyone has the technical prowess to do it the "unix way", so I figured I'd make it easy for the less technically adept. I originally thought about using wget and mirroring the image to my site to pull it from there via Active Desktop...

I really enjoy the Geocaching wallpapers provided on the goodies page (Goodies)... I'd love to use the "Active Desktop" feature of Windows (the first time I've seen a use for it) and would like to have my desktop automatically change when a new wallpaper is posted... Would it be possible to store the desktop calendar images in another location, in addition to the current one, so that Windows can synchronize and pick up the new wallaper when it changes... For example, the wallpaper for November 2005 is stored at: http://www.geocaching.com/goodies/2005-11/800.jpg Could that image also be copied to another location, like http://www.geocaching.com/goodies/wallpaper/800.jpg in addition to the above location... Every month the images in that location would be overwritten with the latest. Thanks, Jeremy

Etrex Legend... Mainly because I got it for an ungodly cheap amount brand new... I was thinking about getting the Vista, but I realized that I didn't need the barometric altimeter (planes are pressurized and I live in an area mostly at sea level) and the electronic compass (I have my trusty Boy Scout compass)...

I was worried about reporting a 'Not Found' the first time I had one, but when I realized that a major landmark used for its position was gone, I wasn't hesitant... The station recovery before mine mentioned a boardwalk, but it was torn down and replaced with a brick path... In the process, a lot of the area was disturbed, so I wasn't hesitant to report it as NF. That, of course, doesn't include the fact that I searched the area for nearly an hour...