QEF while taking a leisurely walk from Shepherds Bush to Kew Bridge. The hint object helped a lot. Greetings from Oxfordshire. TFTC. | Continue reading
With reference to great leaders I've worked alongside, a look at what leadership skills I admire in others. | Continue reading
Finishing my morning walk where, perhaps, I should have started it with the first cache in this enjoyable series. Took a while for a good GPSr fix and I walked up and down the path a few times before spotting the container. But then - disaster - this replaced cache has a brand ne … | Continue reading
Distracted by the cattle eating their breakfast and the increasingly beautiful sunrise, almost forgot to look for this cache. Read the hint but still didn’t have a clue until I spotted something out-of-place in a field. Sure enough, it was the cache. Nice hide! TFTC. This expedit … | Continue reading
Sunrise taking off in earnest now with reds and pinks on the horizon, and my spine – unhappy for sleeping in an unfamiliar bed last night – is enjoying getting a stretch from the walk, too. Stared right at this cache for a moment thinking “well that’s where I would hide it, but w … | Continue reading
I can see why the previous log moved this cache; pleased to see you be a good hiding place on the other side. Also pleased this wasn’t another nano! Light’s grown enough now to add a smiley selfie from the path. Greetings from Oxfordshire, and TFTC! | Continue reading
Got carried away with my walk and briefly overshot this one: realised as I reached the quarry road. Turned back and found the cache in the third place I looked. Said hi to a rabbit and the horses, up and foraging for their breakfast in the early light, before moving on. | Continue reading
This morning’s caching expedition just has it in for my back, I fear, with this one no exception. Nonetheless, a QEF in the first place I looked. TFTC! | Continue reading
A nonprofit I volunteer with has, years ago, held our Christmas bash at the nearby Fairlawns Hotel. We haven’t been in several years and – even though we missed Christmas itself by a full month! – decided to return here this year. I’m often an early riser, especially when away fr … | Continue reading
I use my password manager to generate TOTP second factor codes. I know this is controversial, with some folks claiming it reduces multifactor authentication down to a single factor and is therefore no better than just a username/password, but I disagree, and I can explain why. | Continue reading
My thoughts on Kev Quirk's learnings from ten years of blogging. | Continue reading
Our first in-person murder mystery party in a long time was a success, and a great time was had by all. | Continue reading
For the second time, the council removed a footbridge in which I'd hidden a geocache... but this time they didn't warn me first! | Continue reading
Beginning to prepare/test my costume for an upcoming murder mystery party, I glanced into the mirror and briefly didn’t recognise myself. Glasses can do so much to change your face shape! | Continue reading
Hasbro seem to be rolling up a new character. Maybe this’ll help them. | Continue reading
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy. | Continue reading
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal The SMBC comic that came out this weekend was perhaps the best birthday present the Internet could provide. | Continue reading
A quick find by the eldest child on our way to visit the HMS Belfast. TFTC! | Continue reading
A quick morning expedition with the kids on the way to visit HMS Belfast. Took the ghost TB (didn’t see any others); we’ll find it somewhere to live in Oxfordshire next week! TFTC. | Continue reading
My 6-year-old is obsessed with skyscrapers right now, so we added to the itinerary of our visit to London a trip up to the Sky Garden. The weather wasn’t good enough to get out onto the open-air terrace, but the views were still pretty impressive and the boy loved picking out the … | Continue reading
LastPass users are having to cycle their passwords in the light of a recent security incident. That might well include their "security question" answers, which necessarily leads to some amusing conversations. | Continue reading
Taking a dog for a walk up a hill: couldn't be simpler, right? What if there were a flood in the way? | Continue reading
Dropped by while cycling in the vicinity to replace the log book in the cache container. Hopefully this one will survive a little longer! | Continue reading
No, I won't subscribe to your newsletter... except by using my RSS reader (and a clever feature of OpenTrashMail)! | Continue reading
As MP3s took off, early player software looked... weird and ugly. To this day, I can't understand why. | Continue reading
Visited today after the recent log suggesting the container had been removed and the log dumped. Couldn’t find the log hidden anywhere, but the cache container is intact and in place (just missing a log book!). I’ll try to get up and hunt for the hidden log later this week, or el … | Continue reading
Stuart shared his experience of changing mobile network. I have only one tip to add... | Continue reading
A cycle in the dark leads to a hashpoint on a bridleway and the opportunity to improve OpenStreetMap. | Continue reading
In reply to Terence Eden, Dan says that he considers it's morally-acceptable for a personal website to take a reactive approach to the moderation of comments syndicated via WebMentions, and explains why. | Continue reading
This hashpoint looked like it'd be a walk in the park, but it nearly ended up as a battle with bullocks. | Continue reading
A friend of mine used to do railway station announcements and was so good that he could do it from memory. That job now belongs to a computer. And that's fine. | Continue reading
Things The Other Child Did Wrong That Lead To The Fight that I’ve heard so far today: Clapped too loudly Sang too loudly Sang too quietly Sang the wrong words Put their feet too close to the dog Ate the last grape Ate the wrong grape (!?) Finished brushing their teeth first Clapp … | Continue reading
Following feedback, I’ve tweaked the hint. | Continue reading
I've been publishing some of my blog posts over RSS only for a little while. Here's why. | Continue reading
The proxy I implemented to bypass The Far Side's lack of an RSS feed is now unnecessary, because FreshRSS is better than ever. | Continue reading
408: Request Timeout = "You keep saying you'll propose, but you never do", and 18 other HTTP response codes expressed as relationship breakdowns. | Continue reading
I implemented a terrible digital version of a truly stupid board game idea. My excuse is illness, I guess? | Continue reading
Alex Standiford observes that Automattic stand to win from Twitter's losses; I'd like to expand on that a tiny bit. | Continue reading
I was just barely pipped to the post for a FTF by runmc while out walking the dog. | Continue reading
As the sun begins to set on Spring '83, I finally finish implementing my server for the protocol, way too late for anybody to pay attention or notice. | Continue reading
Oxford Geek Night returned this week after an incredibly-long hiatus, and it was amazing. | Continue reading
Finally got around to implementing a super-lightweight (~20 lines of code, 1 dependency) Spring '83 key generator. There are plenty of others; nobody needs this one, but it's free if you want it: https://github.com/Dan-Q/spring83-keygen | Continue reading
Has anybody ever made a Finger-to-WordPress gateway before? No? Can you imagine why that might be? | Continue reading
What do counselling and constellations have in common? They can both be about picking points and drawing lines between them. | Continue reading
Dan replies to Derek Kedziora's blog post, arguing that identity verification on Mastodon is, for the most part, a problem already solved. | Continue reading
Repaired and replaced. Happy hunting! | Continue reading
Tried to replace/repair but muggles were hanging around too close to stealth the cache into position. Going to go find myself some lunch then come back and try again. | Continue reading
Dropped by on the way back from the school run to check in on this cache. All is well. Also deposited travel bug TB831BW on the next leg of its intergalactic adventure. | Continue reading