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Marky

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Here is what I have to scroll through any time I want to get my caches and my recent logs. It's very annoying, espcially when I try to look at the page on my phone.

 

Travel Bugs that you found:

 

Generic Bug

Generic Bug

" 1,000,000 " #1

"Lucky Lindy"

FTF! Bug

General Ursus

Frosty Mug

Centris 100

The Holy Hand Grenade

GAMERA

Lenin

101 Caches

A Good Sport

Adira, the Belly Dancer

Agent Charizard #007

Aileron

Ally's Taxi

Amidala Bug

Andy Orangutan - Party Animal

Andy's Birthday Bear

Andy's Fork

Angel of the Reef

Antsy the Anteater

Ariana Duck

Ariel Beanie

Ariel The Little Mermaid

Arizona Wandering Star

Ashley's Birthday Bash Ball

Auto Maker Ensemble

B-17 Flying Fortress

Barksalot

Barrel of Monkeys

BarstowDude

Beach Travel Bug T

Bee Hive Bug

Ben

Bernice

Big Green Travel Lantern

Big Red "Speedy"

Bingo the Invisible Dog

BlackJack the Monterey Diver

Bob the Cache Builder

bobthecat

Bodacious Bovine

Boink

Bottle of love

Boxer Baby

Brain Freeeze

Broomtail

Bruce, the Human Satellite

BudBug

Buddy the Fire Dog

Bufford's Nickel

Buffy the Desert Cat

Bug Will Make You Scratch

Bullwinkle, California Born Moose

Bunny Hopper

Busted in Vegas

ButterShug

CA Star

Caba The Happy Hippo

Cache Hopper

CACTUS JACK

California Dreamin' Barbie - The Sequel

Cary

Cat Dog

Celebrating All Animals

Celia (The Great M.I. Marathon!)

Charlie Bug

Charlotte

CHOCOLATE MOOSE

Chopper!

CITY KITTY

Claude the Crab

Cleveland Bentley The Moose

Clone of Calvin

Clyde the Orangutan

Cody Cootie

Colorado Seeker

Columbia Fly Again

Compass To Travel By

Connecticut Courier

Connecticut Quarter

Construction Bob Plastic Pants

Cowboy

Curious George

Curious George Jr.

Dave Matthews

Delta the Duck

Dharma

Dig-Em

Dino Buddy

Dino Saurio

Directional Choice

DJ Bug

Do Run Run

Dog Tags

Dragonbook

Dree Pup

DropTop

Ducati Iron Butt

Eat Chikin!

Eensy Weensy Spider

ELVIS COME HOME

F-16 Fighting Falcon

Fish out of Water

Floppy

Flower Fairy

Frank-n-VA

Fred "the pez" Flinstone

Fred the train engine

Freddy the Fabulous Fish

French Souvenir: Eifel tower

Frinky

Frisky Filly

Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins of the Shire

Froggy

Fuzzy Log Book

Generic Flop

GEO QUACKER

GEO-COP

Geo-Quaker

Geocache Coin #5

GeoXtremists

Get Well Duck

Giants Fan

Ginger

Good Luck Chinese Dragon

GOoHF

Green Egg & Ham

Guitar Girl

Hand Shake

Handstamped Eire Travel Bug

Hank

Hard Rock Traveler (COPY TAG)

Hard-Core Adventure Dude

Haridra the lucky elephant

Haunted Canyon Witch Geo-Traveler #2

He-Dude Protector Of Monterey Caches

Head of Marvin

Headed South, Partner?

Hedwig

Helena

Hello Kitty Folding Chair On A Logging Road

Herb & Eileen Racer

HipHop the Alien Easter Bunny

Hockey Puck

Hollywood Signature Hound

Home Sweet Home

Homer the Homing Elephant

Honeymooner

Hop, Skip 'n' Jump

Houston Texan

Hucklebear

Hugh

I "Heart" San Francisco

I Heart the USA

I Pledge Allegiance

I Think I Can

I Wanna go Home!

Iggy Stardust

Inch-by-Inch

Iron Butt

It's a Lock!

ivan's green turtle #20XXX8

Izzy the dare2 Grizzly travel bug

J. Wayne the Texas Toad

Joker's Wild Ride

Keep on Trucking

KEY TO CACHE BOX

KittyBug

KJ3

Kyle, the Sharptooth

Lady Liberty

Lara Croft - Cache Raider

LaurieAnn01

Leapin' Lizard

Leaping Frog#3

Left My Heart

Left Shoe

Lenny

Leona the Emerald Turtle

Lily

Little A's Fish

Little Alien Traveler

Little Bit

Little Boy Geo

Little Foster on a Skateboard

Little Red Truck

Loco-Rojo Fish

Louie, The Shrimp

Loveable Lion

Lucky (the three legged dog)

Luke Keychain

Lumiere TB

Luscious Lenny

Marill's PokeBall

Marine Joe

MARKY SHARKY

Marty's Mahem

Massachusetts Courier

MeanGreen the Monterey Diver

Merlins Apprentice

Mexican Duck

Mickey the Travel Bug

Mike the Bike

Mini White Bear #5(bthomas)

Mini-Jeep

MINI-ME (jtkcacher)

Minsy

Mitsuko

Mixed up

Moby Bug

Molten In Time

Mom & Dad World Travellers

Monkey Bear

Mother Earth

MOVIN" MINNOW

Mr Quackers

Mr. Trickster

Mustang GT Bug

Mutant Bug

NASCAR Navigator

Nat Parker

New Hampshire Courier

Nifty Fifty!

North Dakota or Bust

Norton

Not Quite Zena

Officer O'Malley, Homeland Security

Orange froggy

Paddington

PANCHO

Philly Masters

Phoenix Bound

Pig Breeder travel bug

Pikachu

Pluto Poo

Princess Hugabug

Prissy Kitty

Psittacosis

Pumpkin

Puppy's Present

Purple Rock

Puzzle Bug #6: Iron Maiden

Race Contender: Aargnzarf

Race Contender: Frankenlurch

Race Contender: Kikipopo

Radar-Trekker

RaiderBug

Rainbow the Race Lizard

Randall

Ready Teddy

Red Dino

Red Eye

Reddy

Reggie Rhino

Return Pod #1 by EraSeek

Rhode Island Courier

Right Sneaker Shoe

Robbert's Rhino

Rolle SocrBug

Rollin 66

Rosie's Slime Machine

Rudy

Rufus

Sacagawea

Sammy's visit to TY

San Francisco Peace

Santa Cruz "Brass Ring" Coin

Sara, the Puddy Tat

SassyLady

Say Aaahhh

Scott's Olds 442

Scuba

SDSU Mr. Beefcakes

Seattle Sam

See Yah Later Gator

ShaneP USA GeoCoin V5

Shannah's Bearista

Sharky

Shiner

Shy Zebra

Signal

Signature Jeep #120

Sissy Pea Ducky

Slinky

Smallworld

Smiling S _ _ _ _ _

Smokey DA Bear

Smoochy the Frog

SNICKERS THE DOG

Sorbo

SouthernCanuck-Bug#1

space man

Spangle the Patriotic Bear

Spideey

Sponge Bob Cache My Pants!

SpongeBob

SpongeBob

SpongeBob Bop

SpongeBob Squarepants

Spudnik

Squigams

States Traveller 1

Stephanie McCarty

Strut the Rooster

Sue the T-Rex

Super-Patriotic-Freedom-Liberty-Patriot-Fun Bear

Swampy

Swiss Classic

T & A: Warrior Women: Cavewoman

T. Endo dog tag

Tarry Knot

Team Geo-Remdation HUMVEE

TENNIS ANYONE?

Thanksgiving Bell

The 2003 Micro Bug

The Bailey

The Cache Cowntess

The Cincy Duck

The Circum-48 Logbook

The Enlightened One

The Evil 8

THE GEOCRICKET

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY

The Good Professor

The Hat

The Hulk

the log

The Lyin' King

The Moving Cache

The Race is On !!!

The Raid Bug

The Ring

The Ring

The Traveling Music Exchange

The Useless Cell (N)

This Little Piggy

Tobe's Friend

Toby the Traveling Troll

Trade Show Piggy

Travel Bug Log Book

TravelHog

Traveling DoorKnob

TRAVELING TEDDY

Trevor the Troll

Tropical Girl

TTFN

Turtle

Tux the Penguin

TwoVegasGuys#2

Vegas Lola Buzzz

Vermont Courier

VideoBug

Wally the Walrus

Wally the Whale

Watch of Isilour

Wheelie #1

Where's The Picnic?

White Tiger

Who's your daddy?

Wonder Woem

WTC RIVET BUG

Yada

Yasmin

Yellow2Tooth

YellowBelly the Monterey Diver

Yertle the Turtle

Yoda keychain

Yu-Gi-Oh TB

 

--Marky

...Be nice to your fellow geocachers, they might be Hemlock...

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WalruZ

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it would certainly be nice if that were expandable, like the watch list link.

 

I have a vaguely related suggestion for a perhaps premium feature. I often see or hear about caches I would like to visit, and the only way I have to bookmark them is to watch them - which results in emails. I would like a bookmark feature very similar to the watch feature. I would use it for caches I plan to visit in the future.

 

yeah, I know. a project manager works from sun to sun, but a programmers work is never done.

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Divine

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Originally posted by Dave_W6DPS:

It would be nice it were like logs--show the last ten by default, with an option to "show all"....

Agreed. And preferably moved to the bottom of the page. This hobby is primarily about hidden and found geocaches, and secondarily about travel bug, benchmarks and such (and locationess caches, if you ask me. Oh wait, you didn't.icon_razz.gif )

 

- I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. -

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Touchstone

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It looks like you have a real problem Marky! You need to lay off the TB's for awhile icon_wink.gif

 

I think they should just relegate the TB's like the Watch List (as a seperate link), or limit the list to the last ten or something. It's not like I have to refer to that list very often.

 

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. The rest go geocaching.

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Gert

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For me it would be enough if the paragraph about 'premium member services' were gone. (How often am I supposed to read that?)

 

I mainly use my cache page to access my own cache pages. Before I became a charter member a click on "my cache page" was enough, now I need to scroll down to get the list.

 

BTW: how long will the PQs be "still in beta"? icon_wink.gif

 

cheers,

Gert

 

Short cuts make long delays.

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Marky

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Originally posted by Jeremy:

I'm currently rewriting the "my cache page" so it will be much easier to use.

That is welcome news indeed. I look forward to checking it out. big_smile.gif

 

--Marky

...Be nice to your fellow geocachers, they might be Hemlock...

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boulter

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Originally posted by Marky:

Here is what I have to scroll through any time I want to get my caches and my recent logs. It's very annoying, espcially when I try to look at the page on my phone.

 

Travel Bugs that you found:

 

Generic Bug

 

(snip)

 

I'd love to feel bad for you and I agree that the page should handle this bettter, but some of these are TBs that were touched and immediately put back into a cache. While it may boost numbers, I'm not sure if that helps the goal of the TB at all.

 

Jeff

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Marky

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Originally posted by boulter:

I'd love to feel bad for you and I agree that the page should handle this bettter, but some of these are TBs that were touched and immediately put back into a cache. While it may boost numbers, I'm not sure if that helps the goal of the TB at all.

Sometimes we're not able to help a particular TB towards it's goal, or we meet up with a bug at an event but someone else wants to move the bug. Generally, those are the cases where we just say hi to the bug and part ways. big_smile.gif I wasn't asked for your pity, just highlighting a problem that many people have. It's good to find out that the problem is being adressed. That's all I wanted to know. bad_boy_a.gif

 

--Marky

...Be nice to your fellow geocachers, they might be Hemlock...

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Gorak

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Originally posted by Marky:

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Originally posted by boulter:

I'd love to feel bad for you and I agree that the page should handle this bettter, but some of these are TBs that were touched and immediately put back into a cache. While it may boost numbers, I'm not sure if that helps the goal of the TB at all.

Sometimes we're not able to help a particular TB towards it's goal, or we meet up with a bug at an event but someone else wants to move the bug. Generally, those are the cases where we just say hi to the bug and part ways. big_smile.gif I wasn't asked for your pity, just highlighting a problem that many people have. It's good to find out that the problem is being adressed. That's all I wanted to know. bad_boy_a.gif

 

--Marky

 

I was always under the mistaken impression that it was unethical to log a TB if you didn't transport it to another cache. Now that I know better I'm going have to start logging all those TB's that I leave behind when I'm not in a position to advance it on its mission. I wish I knew this sooner!

 

So what's the proper logging ettiquette when logging a bug that you don't take? "Met TB, shook its hand and left it behind", or "Visited TB", or just simply, "SBLB" (Saw Bug Left Bug)?

 

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Gorak

 

I love frogs. They taste like chicken. Yum.

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WalruZ

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More than once I've seen Marky cache through areas near to me, seeding caches with TBs so that other cachers can find them and move them around. Were it not for his frighteningly obsessive (they've found the gene for that, btw) pursuit of this game/hobby/pasttime, the SJ/SF bay area would be very much the poorer.

 

WalruZ <- no longer a sockpuppet (ie, divorced.)

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Marky

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Originally posted by Gorak:

So what's the proper logging ettiquette when logging a bug that you don't take? "Met TB, shook its hand and left it behind", or "Visited TB", or just simply, "SBLB" (Saw Bug Left Bug)?

The easiest thing to do when seeing a bug in a cache be not able to move it along is to just leave a note on the bug page instead of grabbing it. That way you don't need to grab it and drop it back in the cache (which has the potential to cause problems).

 

--Marky

...Be nice to your fellow geocachers, they might be Hemlock...

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I do not have that many travel bugs but got so tired of all these non essential messages about Premium Services and what a Watchlist is and what not else. I am using Proxomitron (Win only) to strip out all the stuff and present the page the way I want it to look. My TBs, search for zip code, filtered search for zip code, FIND from for waypoint and name and my caches. That is it, nothing else.

 

Clean layout, all thanks to spending some time trying things out with Proxo. Of course, once the page gets totally overhauled I will have to revisit this and adjust Proxo - or - hopefully - can do away with it for this page all together.

 

My 3 cents.

 

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nostrada

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Marky,

 

it is a proxy server you run on your Win machine and direct your browser to go through it. It then allows you to set up rules to intercept the incoming HTML traffic and customize the data to your liking. I can for example strip ads out of the traffic, prevent pop up, freeze GIF files, prevent Java script from doing things and more. One example is that I change the way the My Cache Page is presented and I removed the table with the found travel bugs all together. I also added a search function to the page, just by inserting the correct form element in the HTML of the page.

 

One starting point would be http://www.proxomitron.info/. The product is free and not officially supported. I use it also to streamline the my.yahoo.com startpage and remove all the crap I am not interested in, just leaving the stocks, URL and news I want.

 

I cam mail you a screenshot of my page, if you want. Anyway, it is a nice tool but it takes some time to get the configuration sorted out if you want to customize it.

 

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GeoROCKS!

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Originally posted by RobertM:

My understanding is that sock-puppet accounts are not allowed.

Why not? I have one. I'm not trying to hide behind it, fool anybody, or be another ''Mitsuko''. In fact, my sockpuppet is a paying member, created just so I can have a few more highly targeted PQs.

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Bartster

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Originally posted by Gert:

For me it would be enough if the paragraph about 'premium member services' were gone. (How often am I supposed to read that?) . . .

 

. . . BTW: how long will the PQs be "still in beta"? icon_wink.gif

 

cheers,

Gert

 

Short cuts make long delays.

 

I'll second the request, GERT! I was wondering that myself!

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Bartster

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Originally posted by boulter:

quote:
Originally posted by Marky:

Here is what I have to scroll through any time I want to get my caches and my recent logs. It's very annoying, espcially when I try to look at the page on my phone.

 

Travel Bugs that you found:

 

Generic Bug

 

(snip)

 

I'd love to feel bad for you and I agree that the page should handle this bettter, but some of these are TBs that were touched and immediately put back into a cache. While it may boost numbers, I'm not sure if that helps the goal of the TB at all.

 

Jeff

 

Good eye boulter!!

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