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I'm not sure what browser you use, but Internet Explorer and Netscape have a feature where you click on a little arrow next to the back button and it shows you several pages back.

'tis the season to be jelly. Merry Christmas.

quote:Originally posted by Grandpa Rocks & Grouchy Gramma:Here it is: the translation is SYMBOL = ORATOR? I was trying to figure out the code and I missed the fact that you already had it decoded. Now what?

quote:Originally posted by Voss Piety: A powerful decrypting instrument, the ORB will be used to solve the following> -4-3:-4-4:5-3:6-2:1-3:1-2::-1-4::1-3:3-3:-9-3:0-2:-10-3:-8-3 The only hint I can give you is>> 10 south equals 0 >V< From the picture, the ball has four rows. The second number of the number pairs is 4 or less. Maybe the second number is the row number

Why in the mobipocket e-books are the cache titles OK and the cache descriptions scrambled?

quote:Originally posted by Team JOYSON:but I was just wondering the same thing earlier. Usually I can waste a good hour or two at work reading the forums & looking at caches, but here lately it seems like everyone's disappeared. We need another Fractal group cache, or Dr. I present to shake things up a bit. You gone and done it now. Dr. I's enemy Voss Pierty, AKA Soviet Spy just posted. BTW I think its fractal, small 'f'. KFC!!! TCBY!!!

I did the Jack-o'-Lantern cache to see how it works. It grabbed the 7 waypoints and put them is several formats. 45° 25' 48.54'' North 122° 48' 23.52'' West 45° 25.809' -122 48.392' 45.43015° -122.806533°45° 25' 48.54'' North 122° 48' 23.52'' West 45° 25.809' -122 48.392' 45.43015° -122.806533°45° 25' 47.46'' North 122° 48' 25.02'' West 45° 25.791' -122 48.417' 45.42985° -122.80695°45° 25' 46.5'' North 122° 48' 21.06'' West 45° 25.775' -122 48.351' 45.429583° -122.80585°45° 25' 45.42'' North 122° 48' 23.94'' West 45° 25.757' -122 48.399' 45.429283° -122.80665°45° 25' 44.76'' North 122° 48' 25.5'' West 45° 25.746' -122 48.425' 45.4291° -122.807083°45° 25' 44.76'' North 122° 48' 23.58'' West 45° 25.746' -122 48.393' 45.4291° -122.80655°

quote:Originally posted by robertlipe:That's an interesting coding style and one I hadn't thought of. I think it'll do the wrong thing if the name or description legitimately contain html entities (i.e. "Ticks & Poision Ivy") , contain special characters (depressingly common when people cut and paste 'smart quotes' from Word or in i18n cases) or if the tag is split across lines (XML::Parser will issue multiple callbacks so you probably want to push them into a stack or something.) Thats why I called it dirty . I only put in two special cases...so far. SA uses quotes for their label so I substitued ticks. Second my GPS's default waypoint description is the title. If I don't change the default description on my GPS my perl script throws it away. I think the GPX strings will handle special characters and HTML. After all GPX is a form of HTML. Open an XML/GPX file in your browser sometime. I hope the parser ignores multiple lines. New lines are only used so we humans can read the code. quote:Would anyone be interested in a mailing list and repository of free/open programming projects involving Groundspeak/GPX so we don't all keep doing this from scratch I'm enjoying the comments(thank you) and discussion here for now. A new version has even been posted. Thanks, AllenLacy.

I wrote a quick and dirty perl program to put caches on a DeLorme Street Atlas map. It works for both your new GPX and EasyGPS XML . In SA: file import lat/lon(it likes a .txt extension). Example perl command: xml2sa example.xml > example.txt xml2sa script: #!/usr/local/bin/perluse XML::Parser; $p1 = new XML::Parser(Style => 'Subs', Handlers => {Char => &ch});$p1->parsefile($ARGV[0]);exit 0;sub ch {$string = $_[1];}sub name_ {$name = $string;}sub desc_ {$desc = $string;}sub wpt { my ($p, $e, %atts) = @_; $lat = $atts{lat}; $lon = $atts{lon};}sub wpt_ { $desc =~ s/"/'/g; $name .= " $desc" unless $name eq $desc; print "$lat, $lon, "$name", 12, 0, 1n";}

quote:Originally posted by Seth!:Hi there! I'm wondering if anyone in our area (Seattle and beyond) is using a Rino. How about, is anyone thinking about it? Have it on your Christmas list? I thought of the same thing. The Rino would be cool, but only if other people were planning on buying them. I'm not sure if they ever will be popular enough to be of much use. Maybe your club could make a group purchase. I am also looking at the new bluetooth GPS paired with a bluetooh PDA, see: Palm Store. It seems to me that bluetooth is a better way of pairing two technologies instead of physically merging them. Also, you can add things like a bluetooth phone to get the coordinates/hints from geocaching.com etc.

Tried a November 29th day in history search. No luck, but something close to the theme, though: 11/29/1949-The United States announces it will conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.

Too bad "the dude" is taken.

quote:Originally posted by slinger91:a plan. Hockey would be cool. And if there is enough of us we could pick a fight with the opposing team! just kidding. I vote for saturday. Hockey is always cool. You see they play it on ice. Sounds like fun. I see in the news they made the Houston team cancel guaranteed fight night, so I guess that won't happen here.

quote:Originally posted by fractal:The clouds might make it a little tough... -fractal DUH! I forgot about the clouds. I've been in OR too long(7 years). I did play golf yesterday in the sun though. So the clouds do go away sometimes.

quote:Originally posted by fractal:Bald Peak State Park (south of Hillsboro) currently has 3 caches in it (one of them being my Low-Medium-High). Bald Peak also has a spectacular view of the http://www.space.com/spacewatch/perseids_spacewatch_020809.html. Shinwa and I were up there last night and we saw some amazing stuff in the sky! We'll be up there again tonight shortly after it get's dark. It would be great to join up with some local cachers to watch this event, and bag a couple of caches while there If you'd like to join, here's the approx. lat/lon: N 45° 23.741 W123° 03.348 The park elevation is about 1600 feet, and can get pretty windy, so dress accordingly. When you pull into the park, go to the right and park near the turn-around area. To the right of it (NE) is a large field that is perfect for laying out on blankets and looking up. I'll be out in the field. To find me, look for the green glow-stick. I'll also have my FRS radio with me, channel 5 code 0. It's usually a pretty good show, so come and check it out! -fractal -=-=-=-=-=-=- N 45° 30.ish W 122° 58.ish I missed the fun last time. The Leonid shower is tonight. Is there a good place that stays open after dark?

quote:Originally posted by GoldKey:Actually the cache moved. It was placed in and out of the same cache. While it was gone, the cache was moved due to looting. See http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=40427 You got it. It was a weird circumstance where someone did a hand off through a cache that moved. I doubt anyone can beat that. It all worked out extremely well, though, because the bug made it to its ultimate goal of going to a Packers game. I was watching the bug because I moved it part way.

From TB1B52 log: Saturday, November 09, 2002 tricolor placed it in Hello Wisconsin! by Centris (Travelled 0.01 miles SW) I think we need a new top 10 list . Shortest trips.

I like it. I moved here from MN a few years ago and back in MN we all said "oooory gone", ya sure you betcha. Maybe you need a signature item like an oregone rubber ducky or a radioactive beaver or something.

quote:Originally posted by Lapaglia:I admit to being a gadget freak But the blue tooth GPS by EMTAC is totaly cool . I needed an excuse to buy the new bluetooth 39xx series IPAQ and this is it. too bad they didnt list a price on the site. Has anyone tried the new EMTAC Palm Tungten package at the palm store and Transplant Computing.? It would cool to throw your GPS and blue tooth phone in your pack and then be able to search with the gps and down load directions from the web all from your Palm.

quote:Originally posted by Voss Piety:My friends call me "Tucson Mim". Are you from North Dakota? Minot Scum

quote:Originally posted by travisl(noon 10/27):... has been released! It's in http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=32153 on Mercer Island. When it gets its first move, one of the two teams will start accumulating points. Let the games begin! _"I'm sure she would have been thrilled to find so much pooh in a little metal box."_ It doesn't seem to be moving. I thought it would move more often. Am I missing something? One thing bothers me. If I see the bug in a cache and I know 19 others are on my team, does that mean there is a 1 in 20 chance I will find the bug if I look for it? Or is there some kind of coordinator/captain for each team?

quote:Originally posted by The Artful Dodger:this thread has been done to death already. Sorry, I just noticed I had a lot of caches near me. I don't read general much. Can you point me to the thread, please.

When I do a geocache search to within a 5 mile radius of my home loacation near Portland, OR, I get 71 caches. .9 caches per square mile. Beat that!

GPS : Geocachers of Portland Society

quote:Originally posted by fractal:...I'm thinking of having people email me for the combo, or solve a puzzle. Any thoughts on this or preference? I'm up for another fractal puzzle. It would be nice if there was some way of verifying the combo without having to climb up, though. Also, when I did the old Tree Hugger I had one or both hands hanging onto the tree at all times. So please make the access easy with one hand.