Martin FFG

Dear Geocaching Friends, Today begins my 10th year of geocaching, and I can honestly say that I am having every bit as much fun today, as when I found my first geocache on 2-24-2002. I just wanted to make you aware of a little contest that I am having to celebrate. I am going to award a special prize package to the first geocacher who finds and logs all of my active geocaches. That’s active caches, so it doesn’t matter whether or not you have done any of my past archived caches. At this moment, there are 83 active caches, but you will need to have logged all of my active caches up to the date that you complete them all. In other words, I may or may not have new caches in the future before someone completes this challenge. My promise to you is that if I do publish any new caches between now and then, it will be purely random, and not an attempt to put anyone off from finishing the challenge. If you check my profile, you will find a chart that shows a kind of leader board of the finders of my caches that I will update at least once a week until the contest is over. The prize? You ask??? Begins with a brand new, never opened GEOMATE JR. Many of you know that I won this nice prize, which normally sells for $69.99 at the Going Coastal event back in November, and I have struggled with what I would do with it ever since. I hope this is the great idea I’ve been looking for. Also included in the prize package will be a numbered set of my personal geocoins, along with one of each of my pathtags. There is already one unactivated geocoin that has been added to the bag, and maybe, just maybe, I will think of something else neat that I can put in there. What about rules? I want this to be fun, and rules aren’t always considered to be fun. They do however keep us from anarchy! Don’t they? The one really important rule that I’ve seen the need for so far is that the prize here is intended for a geocacher who has found and logged ALL of my active geocaches. It does not mean a team of 83 geocachers who have all done one of my geocaches. Nor does it mean two geocachers who work as a team and sign each other in on 40+ of my geocaches. PLEASE, be honest and win the contest fairly. I know that if you are working as a family, or a couple, there are going to be certain caches where everyone was not present, and that is not a problem. BUT it is NOT fair for two people to go in different directions and visit different caches, and sign each other in as a team just to log them all. OK, enough said. I just want to close by saying that geocaching has become a very good and important part of my life, and many of you are the reason why, and this is my humble attempt to give a little back, and hopefully have some fun in the process! Martin, from Franklin, GA

GOT IT!!!!! Thanks for all the help! It was indeed the ad blocker software. I have no idea how the setting suddenly got changed from medium to high, and I hadn't even noticed that the ads on gc.com were not showing either. -- you just can't imagine, what a pain that was!

Sorry it's been so long since I've checked in... Life's been crazy lately. Thanks for all the great suggestions, I am presently trying to work my way through them. I followed the link to the multicache icon, and it worked just fine. I will post other results as soon as I have them. Thanks again, to everyone who is trying to help!!!

Here are the requested screen shots. Notice the icons which represent the cache type are missing. i.e. the single green cache box, or the double yellow multi cache boxes, or the blue question mark, or the virtual ghost...

I did try installing foxfire on the machine, but it has the exact same appearance. I have looked through the browser settings, but have not found anything that I can identify as the problem.

I am experiencing a problem that I have never encountered before, and it is only on my desktop computer, my laptop, and PDA are both working fine. On my desktop computer, the cache type icons no longer show up; neither on the cache pages, or in the search lists. It is a real pain to have to load a page and read to find out what kind of cache it is. I can't figure out anything that is available on the website to control these icons, nor is it logical to think that it is a setting in my windows, or IE, as the tb and coin icons in the same column work just fine. This makes no sense to me, but it is driving me up the wall. Does anyone have any ideas???

My idea is for two new stats for the profile stats pages. One is the difficulty index, which would be the total sum of all the difficulty stars that have been logged. The other is the terrain index, which would be the total sum of all the terrain stars that have been logged. Another option would be to have an average number as well, which would be the total number of stars divided by the total number of caches logged. I believe this would be a fun stat (bragging right) for those cachers who like the more difficult caches. Even though we know the numbers don't mean anything.... There are those cachers with several thousand smileys, who do mostly 1/1 caches. There are other cachers who may not have thousands of smileys, but they have put, possibly, more effort into the ones that they have done. If this is not the proper place to submit my idea, I would appreciate advice from some of you out there, as I have never participated in the forums much. Thanks, Martin

I know I'm not about to help my popularity out there, but then I don't find myself all that popular anyway. I am way late on this response, as I just found some lost e-mail, and a friend sent me a link to this forum. I have all my coins copied, and NOT ONE really out there in a cache. This is what I choose to do, and since I paid for the coins, I'll do just what I please with them. When you pay for your coins, you can do the same, and I promise I will not hold a grudge with any of you for not doing it my way. If you really want something to discuss, why don't you write an essay and explain to me about all the people there are in geocaching, that apparently have no real life, and spend every non-geocaching moment online, on one of several forums that they are watching, and spend most of that time griping about how everyone is doing this game wrong??? No wait... don't bother, because I won't be here to read the stupid things you have to say about that either! I never really took an interest in the forums, but had someone send me a link a while back to get my opinion on something. That is what happened this time as well. And every time that I have EVER been on any one of the forums that I have visited, it has only been a bunch of people griping about something they didn't agree with. Personally, I strongly agree with LZ33; 1MarkyMark1; AtlantaGal; and Michigan_Chris on this one, but I will tell you all that I do NOT geocache for your pleasure! I thoroughly love it for the fun that I have. And I get sick of the sassy logs that I receive about the coins, and about travel bugs, and about this and about that. GROW UP PEOPLE!

I accidentally activated a geocoin that I really didn't want to keep. Is there any way to inactivate it? I would like to have it back like it was to begin with

I am having a problem, and I wonder if anyone has experienced it, or knows what's going on??? I am a premium member and I use a pocket pc along with my Garmin StreetPilot (in the car) and my Garmin GPS 72 (in hand) to geocache. When I receive my 50 cache pocket query (gpx file), and load it into my PDA, there are 50 caches and all the information. But when I load that same file into my two GPSr's, there might be 13, or 14, or some other number of geocaches there. This has been happening for a few days now, but I went through a couple of weeks of this a couple of months ago. The problem eventually corrected itself before, but I was wondering if there was something that I am doing to cause it, or is it a gliche in the system? I do overcome the problem by manually downloading the pages of Easy GPS (loc files), which is still not bad, but not what is suppose to be happening here. The other day I did a one time only query and ask for 35 caches. It only gave me 30 (in the two receivers) and so it wasn't until I was out in the field that I started finding other caches in my PDA that were not in my receivers. Can anyone offer an explanation? Martin, from Franklin, GA