Eclipse Chasers

LOL, but what about all the posts as to what / who caused the original bulb to burn out?

I tend to feel more like cacherunner than Jomarac5. If somebody wants to get into a new variation on geocaching great, but either set up your own web site with its caches to be plundered, or ask admin to make a new class of 'plunderable' caches where you would be asking for this kind of activity to take place. I realize the pirate is just out to have some fun and add a twist to what must have become boring to him. However he's playing with someone elses game. To me it's seems like a childish prank - sneak into someone elses game, do a bit of mischief by adding a new search and then leave a bonus for whoever finds it. Part of what bothers me is how even good ideas can go bad as they are picked up by others who don't have the same sense of balance(take something but leave a little more) but just think it's cool to mess with the game. Although this pirate is leaving maps and offering extra booty, those that follow may not be as generous, maybe just give a useless clue and leave the stuff in a garbage bag where it ends up being found by the trash men. He has a web site after all encouraging others to follow in his footsteps. Since he hopes to make a webring of pirate sites I encourage him to add caches that people are expected to plunder and please leave any link to geocaching.com out of it.

One thing we could do is ask his ISP to kick the pirate off their site. The site is hosted by www.shielhost.com.

I took my GPSr to Africa a couple of years ago and managed to get a nasty scratch right in the middle of the screen. Out in the middle of nowhere there wasn't much to do about it. The next town we got to I found a jeweller and paid him a couple of dollars to polish it out. I suspect it was the strangest request he's ever had (by the looks I got) but it cleared up the screen.

Hope they make it home safe.

At least it would get rid of 1 WMD. And another on DC and a lot more problems would be solved. Well, no that would just get them all riled up again. But really, why not leave politics out of geocaching

http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=43404 Another interesting article, this one a real world situation.

This article from GPS World is interesting for those of us who use the civilian signals. http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=43404

Is the unit working as it did now that you have returned home?

I think it's a bad idea to use this site to 'trade' copyrighted material. Don't give GeoCaching a bad name.

Is there any chance of adding Canadian benchmarks to the database, or creating a seperate database?