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Gill & Tony

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  1. Thanks, Hügh I knew it was there somewhere, but I just couldn't see it Cheers Tony
  2. How do I change the card used for automatic payment for my premium account, please? Thanks Tony
  3. OK, solved it. Just do a search for found with D/T selected and bingo.!
  4. According to my D/T chart on my dashboard, I have one cache 3.5/3.0 Checking my finds in GSAK I do not have any finds with that combination. How do I tell which cache my stats think is 3.5/3.0 and how can I correct it? Probably the rating has changed and I need to refresh GSAK.
  5. Well, I must be going blind or something. I have never noticed that before Makes life a lot easier. Thanks for pointing that out.
  6. Once I managed to move the map to the middle of the Pacific and find New Caledonia (Why isn't there a "move to location" feature? Seems a much more useful feature than this speak to me) I did try it out. It doesn't translate (which would be useful) and the French pronunciation (even to my schoolboy French ears) is horrible.
  7. I'm planning a trip to New Caledonia where both adventures are in French. I speak English. Will the speak to me feature do an on-the-fly translation for me? Repeating a previous comment: the whole button should be sensitive, not just the arrow.
  8. Thanks. I seem to remember that from a long time ago. Good to be reminded about it.
  9. Many challenge caches ask for a list of qualifying caches. Is there a way to format this list into columns? Multiple spaces get compressed into one. I can't see how to insert tabs, and I'm not sure that would work anyway. There doesn't seem to be a markup language tag for this. Am I missing something, or just wasting my time? Thanks Tony
  10. It is a geohash coordinate format. There are a number of converters for geohash coordinates available on the web. The one I used only accepts up to 9 digits, but that gives a small radius in which to search.
  11. I'm tackling a puzzle cache which has coordinates in a format unknown to me. In order to not ask for the solution, I have changed some of the characters in the string, but the sequence of letters and numbers is correct. The coordinate format is r1f83kt4p8nq This may not be a valid string, due to my changes, but does anyone have any idea how to convert this format to something more recognisable? Thanks Tony
  12. Didn't get any new ones last year and probably won't get any this year either. I'm planning to get the last two Australian states in 2025.
  13. Yes, cheating is wrong. However, I used precisely the right number of words. I don't care is someone is only cheating themselves. I don't care if the chap playing solitaire at the next table in the cafe is cheating. He is only cheating himself. He is not affecting me or anyone else I don't care if someone cheats to get a souvenir. They are only cheating themselves. They aren't affecting me or anyone else. Cheating on your spouse or at poker or claiming finds on caches you haven't visited does affect other people. I do care about that. Breaking the law is a whole different scenario. Where do you draw the line for cheating at geocaching? If two people are caching together and one finds the cache and signs both names? The other did not find the cache. What if each signs their own name. If one climbs the tree and the other remains on the ground? If a team splits up into separate groups and all names go into every log? Moving identical containers on a power trail. Containers are not being replaced as found. Failing to log a DNF Deleting a NM log on your cache to make it look better Asking friends to give FPs to your cache Cheating at geocaching is a moving target. Everyone draws a different line.
  14. Selectively quoting part of a sentence to distort its meaning is bad ethics. Hypocritical. Evidence, please for your second sentence.
  15. I don't understand why people care whether other people cheat to get a souvenir. All my souvenirs are legitimately earned, but I couldn't care less if some random cacher is getting souvenirs they haven't earned. How does that affect me, or anybody else? Souvenirs don't have any value, so they aren't debasing them. The fact that they have one doesn't stop someone else from having the same one - they are in infinite supply. The only possible "problem" is them qualifying for a challenge they haven't really earned. But, provided their find is legitimate, how does that affect anyone else? Claiming fake finds on real caches can affect others. But souvenirs?
  16. @Moun10Bike Thanks for the official answer and explanation.
  17. If your only finds in a country are adventure stages (lab caches) do you receive the country souvenir? Or does it only get awarded correctly caches with a GC code? Thanks Tony
  18. That's interesting, the note stayed on mine for quite a while after the cache had both OM and enable logs published.
  19. I see the report button sending an e-mail to the ALO. "User reported a problem with stage name of your adventure Adventure name Maybe they could allow the user to add a short description of the problem. Basically an Owner Attention Required notification. There was never any intent on my part for it to be a two-way street.
  20. Let's be polite and simply say that when I was managing programmers, I would never have tolerated releasing a world-wide program which didn't use the local time and the local date format. I don't blame the programmers. But the system designers and QA team...
  21. I've just received my first review e-mail. The text read: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulladulla Harbour has a new review: Reviewed by: The Rats Adventure completion date: 8/2/2023 7:25:09 PM Type: Adventure Review: A nice AL along the foreshore ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ First: Apparently they posted the review on the 8th of February, at least according to the date format I use. I'm guessing that the system doesn't allow for different date formats, so let's assume that it was 2nd of August. Second: It arrived at 12:27 pm on the 3rd August, so I'm guessing that the date and time are UTC or Seattle time or something equally useless. Third: "Type: Adventure" What other types would it be? Fourth: Clicking the link doesn't take me to my adventure builder page (which would be nice) but to the QR code for the page (which is useless) So, wrong date, wrong time, pointless type and useless link. At least the text of the message and who posted it are correct.
  22. Please correct me if I am mistaken, but 1. You cannot write a review until you have completed the adventure. 2. You cannot contact the AL creator from within the App. 3. You cannot write an "Owner Attention" log. Therefore If there is a problem with a stage such that the answer is no longer available and you cannot complete the adventure, you cannot tell the owner about the problem. IF you have a geocaching account and IF you can remember when you get home and IF you can be bothered then you can contact the owner. Solution: add a report button on each stage so you can report the problem. One of my stages has been unavailable for nearly 6 months. I've now fixed it. At least 3 people have failed to complete the adventure, stages 1-3 have more completions than stage 5.
  23. Cheap last minute cruises can sometimes be a wee bit more than you expect. We are (or were) regular cruisers with Princess. We were offered a really cheap price for a relocation cruise - Rome to Fort Lauderdale in Dec 2016 Fine, we booked it. Then, we had to fly to Rome. Never having been to Rome, we booked a small hotel for 4 Nights and had a day trip to Florence and Pisa, plus the Vatican. Now we are in Ft. Lauderdale a few nights before Christmas and we had planned to spend Christmas with friends in Navarre (near Pensacola). So, hire car to Navarre and, after Christmas we continued to New Orleans. We had never been to Las Vegas, so we flew there and stayed for 4 nights over New Year. Hotel room costs were interesting 30th Dec $80, 31 Dec $350, 1 Jan $350, 2 Dec $80. Now we hired another car and drove to San Francisco via part of Route 66 and eventually flew back home form Los Angeles. Given that the main reason for taking the cruise was to go back to Bermuda (we lived there 30-odd years previously), a cheap cruise turned into an epic Round-the-World odyssey.
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