I've added a new logo to the top left of the screen which will get updated everytime I log a cache (within a two hour timeframe). The text underneath is because I've found out that not only is the person in the office opposite me addicted to caching now, someone else has gone out and found two caches and they don't even have a gps - just an Ordnance Survey map, good local knowledge and excellent map reading skills. There are also two or three other people who have expressed an interest in it too (but only one other person from the office has found my cache)
There's a neat toolbar for Internet explorer that sits at the bottom of your browser screen and allows you to easily search geocaching.com. For Mozilla i've had to settle with using address bar's and the autosearch functionality. Slightly harder to use as you have to remember that "postcode cw12" will search for caches in this postcode and not give the address from Royal Mail's website :-)
Added some pictures taken at the past few caches to the various logs. These can be found on my Geocaching gallery page
GPS sent back this morning - hope its back by next Saturday :-(
The pocket query generator for premium geocaching members has been tarted up and looks a lot better now. There's also the ability to click the query and to have it run now. You also get the time the query was last run. A nice improvement.
I've written up and documented my batch file for giving the cryptic gpx names a descriptive one instead.
Found the Staffordshire castle cache this morning on the way down to london - someone else visited after me, took the item I left and logged it before I got the chance this evening! I also managed to go to a really nice windmill site with some pictures to come soon. I was going to try and get some on the way into London but when I turned the gps back on when leaving my parents I got the message that there was no map loaded in the gps, initiating upload - no idea how it's done it, why its done it or how I'm going to fix it!
Found Bosley Locks at my third attempt although I am sure someone rebuilt the wall between today and the last time I went. I then went onto My Kipling and found that one two. Took two hours to do them both which was a nice break this afternoon. Was tempted to go and do Staffordshire's highest cache but Kristen wanted me back home so that'll be another day.
GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) beta 2 is out and looks good - downloading it now to try out.
By going to the GeocacheUK cache page and running a query without limiting the mileage , saving as an autoroute file and then importing into autoroute, I now have all the cache locations in autoroute so I can work out where they are and how to get to them whilst on business. REALLY useful - Acton here we come.
Found Apedale country park cache which took about 90 minutes to do as it was a follow the clues type puzzle. A really nice walk on a pleasant sunday afternoon. Also did Bradwell Quarry just before that which was on the top of a hill overlooking an industrial estate. Suprisingly, it was actually better looking than it sounds.
Monday afternoon I managed to get in Hay Head Wood in Walsall, which was my first Ammocan cache.
Friends of mine have also been and found the Bosley Locks cache which I've not found twice now - I need to get that one crossed off the list!
Reading the transcript for the GC2725 Radio K.A.O.S. by Team Chaos gives another Virtual find - again from the comfort of your home :-)
There's a caching simulator where you can actually pretend to cache and then Log your visit
Managed to get to the GCD236 Great Scott cache in Birmingham situated on the top of the hill. This was a virtual one that needed some questions answered. I saved the answers in GPXSonar and unfortunately did not hit the save button, instead I just hit the close page.....and it didn't ask me if I was sure I wanted to abandon my pages - and I didn't find out until I went to log the find.
Welcome to my Geocaching Blog. I've decided to start a blog dedicated to Geocaching, detailing my finds,hides and other stuff that goes on in the addictive world of Geocaching.