This checkin to GC54E1W WAG 15 - Action! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Sometimes the geo-sense “just works”. This was one of those moments. I was approaching the area and checking the distance. Then I walked straight to a likely location. Then … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC72TZ5 WAG 14 - Wander through Wroxhills reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Turning South and crossing our own path, the sun came out at last and we were bathed in glorious warm light. Between that, and the familiarity of the trail … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DR7 WAG 9 - Sausages & Bacon! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Worra lorra porkers! The geopup is a huge fan of sausages but I don’t think she understood that the cornucopia she was looking at across the field was the same thi … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DTF WAG 10 - Track-able reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geopup and I tried a couple of likely hiding places before we found this one. A nice-sized container and well-suited to its hiding place, here, TFTC! | Continue reading
This checkin to OK00F7 Pig City Vista reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Came by this location while doing the nearby WAG series. Was delighted to see that an OpenCache was on the route too so the geopup and I dedicated the time to a decent search. … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DW0 WAG 11 - Panorama reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Between nearby GC7QC7R, which acts as a spur to this series, and OK00F7, which sits on (and predates) this series, I was feeling confident of a find here… but after an ext … | Continue reading
As a quick diversion from the nearby WAG series, the geopup and I meandered out this way to find this cache. Once I was in the vicinity of the cache something stood out to me as unusual, so we went to pick it up... it turned out to be a chunk of wraught iron, but finding it soon … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC610PB WAG 12 - Wroxhills Wood reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find: we walked straight to where the coordinates said and there it was. My phone, having been rebooted during the last leg, was now behaving much b … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DXQ WAG 13 - Oh deer! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took several attempts to find the correct hiding place and the poor geopup – who didn’t like the tight-knit undergrowth here except when it suited her (when she wanted to … | Continue reading
This was the moment when I found myself wishing that my dedicated GPSr unit was with me and working, as my phone's GPS fix started jumping all over the place. The geopup and I made a few valiant attempts to search in the obvious places, criss-crossing our way through some quite f … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DF1 WAG 7 - Fuming! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geopup made herself useful for this cache, running straight to the cache location. (I suspect that some prior canine visitor may have left their mark somewhere very near … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DEF WAG 6 - Water Break reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Working our way through the first part of the WAG series, we unfortunately had to skip this one without an adequate search: the area was crawling with ramblers, consulti … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC9BYME WAG 5a reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geopup struggles to understand why I sometimes insist on stopping our walks to go and poke around in the nearby trees, and this time was no exception. The hint could refer to one … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC8C4TE WAG 5 - Battle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Another excellent bit of camoflage here, on what has so-far appeared to be a well-loved but well-maintained series. The geopup and I went back and forth a few times before we … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DD8 WAG 4 - Chiltern Way Extension reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Unfortunately, my dedicated GPSr had been left turned-on after my last geocaching/geohashing/whatever expedition, and I hadn’t realised until I was just setti … | Continue reading
The time before last that I was in Goring - the first of my now-three visits - was for a birthday/garden party on 24 June 2018. My eldest - then only four years old - was getting a little bored of the grown-up conversations going on and I provided a distraction by taking her out … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54DAM WAG 2 - Cow Hill reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The last time I was in Goring was on 9 June 2022, when I cycled here via Eynsham, Abingdon, and Didcot. I enjoyed a meal at at Whale Inn in Streatley, then meandered down i … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC54D9K WAG 1 - See the light reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Ignoring times that I’ve passed-through, I’ve only ever visited Goring twice before. It’s time to rectify that! This morning, the dog and I drove down from Stanton Har … | Continue reading
For a Virtual Fringe Festival party, I hooked up OBS Studio and Owncast with WhatsApp Web on the side. Here's how I did it. | Continue reading
The problem of "needing to be able to hear from two Bluetooth sources at once" is so real for me that I came up with a solution that I genuinely use all the time. You're not going to like it, though. | Continue reading
An open-source program that combines WikiData with a random generator to come up with almost-invariably inaccurate but sometimes hilarious facts. | Continue reading
Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs! | Continue reading
.well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think? | Continue reading
I do not claim to have a good explanation nor excuse. | Continue reading
This checkin to GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here this morning for the geopup and I. The undergrowth has come through incredibly thick your summer, and we had to work hard to hunt in likely l … | Continue reading
Easy find while out on a dog walk. Not been out this side of the wood before! Might have struggled to find the GZ were it not for the remnants of a "geo trail" through the dense undergrowth, which was thick enough that the pooch's little legs couldn't take her the last 5 metres a … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC340EG Leslie reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I find myself in Cropredy but once a year, at most, and for the obvious reason. The festival atmosphere, not to mention the hordes of revellers, does not in general bode well for a s … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC340FP Sanders reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I managed to log most of the local geocaches during last year’s Fairport by getting up early each morning (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), while the other revellers were still nursing their h … | Continue reading
TomSka says sauce and toppings should go under hot dogs. After my initial reaction of shock and horror, I think he might actually be on to something. | Continue reading
Proud to say that danq.me is the newest site to be admitted into Kev Quirk's 512kb club. Let's keep the web lean! | Continue reading
There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader. It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your “unread” list. Your feed reader is not an email client. | Continue reading
I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them? | Continue reading
Ruth and I celebrated our anniversary this week by going to the Isle of Man. Except we never got there and instead Ruth lost her job and I got sick. | Continue reading
Ruth dropped the dog and I off for a walk to a hashpoint while she collected some shopping. | Continue reading
This checkin to GCXWEX Villa View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with Ruth after coming out to explore the spectacular Roman villa. We’d supposed to have been out of the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary, but our ‘plane got cancelle … | Continue reading
Next time you've got something to share or a personal project, why not start a blog? | Continue reading
Video version of my blog post about the video game that had the biggest impact on my life: Werewolves and Wanderer. | Continue reading
A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade. | Continue reading
Finally got around to rewriting my Mastodon introduction, now that my selfhosted server's got enough interconnection that people might actually see it! If you're on the Fediverse and you're not already doing so, you can follow me at @dan@danq.me. Or follow my blog at @blog@danq.m … | Continue reading
Collective nouns are great and all, but what if we had solitary nouns? | Continue reading
Morning walk with Demmy, first of her name, Queen of Stealing Your Spot On The Sofa, Empress of the Farts Of Doom, rightful keeper of That Gross Chew Toy, bringer of snuggles, destroyer of rosebeds, scourge of the mailman. | Continue reading
Meta are launching Threads tomorrow. If you’re wondering how this will impact the world and society’s social connections, I direct you to the predictive powers of 1984 British cinema. | Continue reading
Three years after first enjoying it, I re-watched this spectacular video of... a man playing sudoku. It's way better than it sounds, I promise! | Continue reading
This checkin to GC3742 SP9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Well this was a challenge! The woods threw off my GPS, but I’d brought a backup device so I averaged between them and found a likely GZ. The dog and I did an increasingly large spiral, c … | Continue reading
This week, I spoke to a school group about the history of The Devil's Quoits. Perhaps I should be more-willing to share what I've learned in-general, even in areas where I'm still learning? | Continue reading
JTA's capability for nostalgia is something I've previously mocked, but now I think about it: I actually really appreciate it. | Continue reading
Today was not one of those days. A sarcastic video rant. | Continue reading