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    Madeleine McCann

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    While out cacheing over the last week Ive called in various establishments for meals etc primarily in the Tonbridge area and they nearly all have Maddie posters in them.

     

    The rights and wrongs of this case is not the point, concentrate on the main thing, finding Maddie, the rights and wrongs can be sorted later.

     

    Well said and very true.

    Madeleine McCann

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Er... I reckon you're wrong drsolly, I for one have no idea who you're talking about.

     

    Seeing as how this situation (sorry, can't think of a more appropriate word at the moment) has been on nearly every news bulletin for the past ten days, is receiving massive publicity in the press, has been emblazoned on T shirts at sporting events up and down the country, you must be in a very small minority.

    I don't know what we can do to further publicise the case but anything, just anything that may help in any small way has got to be a good thing.

    As a father myself I cannot imagine the horror her family are going through at the moment, here's hoping that Maddie is soon reunited with her family.

    Sat nav driver's car hit by train

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Read this on another forum which was discussing the sanity of some folk who use Sat Nav.

     

    "Our neighbour went to the crematorium to attend the funeral of a friend, Joyce being ever careful decided to take her sat nav out of the car in case it got pinched and just as they took their seats all that could be heard from Joyce's handbag was "You have arrived at your final destination"

    True but a tad embarrassing. "

     

    :rolleyes::laughing::(:lol::(

    Tesco selling Garmin products

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Pottering around on the Internet (as you do) I discovered that Tesco are now selling GPS devices including the hallowed 60CSX. And whats more you can buy it with just clubcard points! :anicute:

     

    If you are a Tesco shopper and fanatical clubcard points collector you can now get yourself a nice shiny new device with your bananas ;) The range starts from the basic yellow eTrex and works up. And in theory purchasing it with clubcard points makes it free.

    Has anyone purchased one this way, and if so is it all as good as it sounds?

     

    My apologies if I am not divulging anything new. ;)

     

    Not exactly the lowest prices around are they? :unsure:

    Chav run-ins whilst caching

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    I had a run-in today. Was caching with 2 friends when some chavs come up to us, saying meaningless insults and such. It was a step too far when one of them peed on me. You lot had any pleasant meetings?

     

    I think I would have initiated the sound of one hand clapping. Take one flat hand, swing it around in as much of a circle, roughly parallel to the ground, as fast as you like and watch for the reaction when its conects with the lug-hole. Failing that, carry a large wooden spoon around in your caching bag, if anybody tries to expose himself in your vicinity again whap him on the peepee dead hard. I bet you as much as you like he won't go crying to the police about it. grrrrr ;)

    Putting co-ors into a TomTom

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    I have a TomTom Go300, I usually download myPOUIs from GSAK with no problem. However when I try to type in co-ordinates directly to the TomTom it usually points me somewhere several miles away. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

     

    I use a PDA with TomTom 6 and had a similer problem when first using the 'input destination as lat/long' which might be the same as the 'GO'.

     

    What I was doing was using the top line of numbers/symbols when entering the co-ordinate, for example N51(degree symbol)01'498 and it was the ' which caused all the problems.

     

    What I should of done was use the degree symbol from the top line and the decimal point from the bottom line, for example N51(degree symbol)01.498 . Therefore make sure your using a . rather than a '

     

    Hope this helps, if I can get one I will try and post a screen shot to explain it better.

     

     

    Brilliant, that trick does it. I thought I'd tried that way ages ago and it didn't work then. there again, you know what thought did!

    Many thanks.

    Putting co-ors into a TomTom

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    I have a TomTom Go300, I usually download myPOUIs from GSAK with no problem. However when I try to type in co-ordinates directly to the TomTom it usually points me somewhere several miles away. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

     

    I use a PDA with TomTom 6 and had a similer problem when first using the 'input destination as lat/long' which might be the same as the 'GO'.

     

    What I was doing was using the top line of numbers/symbols when entering the co-ordinate, for example N51(degree symbol)01'498 and it was the ' which caused all the problems.

     

    What I should of done was use the degree symbol from the top line and the decimal point from the bottom line, for example N51(degree symbol)01.498 . Therefore make sure your using a . rather than a '

     

    Hope this helps, if I can get one I will try and post a screen shot to explain it better.

    Google Earth

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    I've run Google Earth with no problems for some time on my desktop 'puter. I recently treated myself to a new laptop running Vista. I downloaded Google Earth and find the screen is slightly different to the version I already had - no problems there. However, I now have yellow push pin icons which when I hover the cursor over them show the name of the cache. Alternatively I get the geo icons (which I am used to) but they show the name of the cache all the time which makes the screen look very crowded. (I don't know why or how I change between the two screen settings, it just seems to happen!). When I hover the cusor over the cache icon the writing increases in size.

    What I want to do is get back to having my old geo icons with the cache name only appearing when the cursor is over the icon. How do I do that? :D

    I can't check any settings on the laptop Google Earth as it's poorly and gone to the 'puter doctors to make it all better again.

    Pocket Queries

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    My PQs have been taking anything between 12 to 36 hours (if they arrive at all, that is). Today... 3 minutes! I was that surprised that I almost deleted it in error. AND I'm on AOL just to make it even more peculiar. Have things improved or was it a fluke? I'll let you know next week when I send my next one...

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