Some suggested starting apps for your Unraid NAS, inspired by a conversation this week with a teammate who's an aspiring Unraider. Selfhosting FTW! | Continue reading
This checkin to GC89T04 Japanse glazen dobbers reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find. Didn’t take nor leave any books, but briefly skimmed the Borland JBuilder 2 Getting Started guide, because it was familiar/nostalgic. Pretty sure I used … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC8R0FY SIX on the beach reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find. As a approached I thought that a couple cuddling here might be in my way, but they were just getting ready to leave as I arrived! SL (love the long thin logbo … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC79PX6 Galgenveld / Field of Gallows reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Eww. Had to put my hand into two gross holes before finding the (correct) third gross hole I needed to put my hand into. Worth it in the end for a happy smiley … | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAJGEA Welcome to Amsterdam! (Virtual Reward 4.0) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. TFTC! I’m not carrying any tickets for UK transport, but I’ve got a (mildly defaced) British banknote and I found a tram (the number 13, which con … | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAJHEN Amsterdam Greed / Hebzucht reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Cash? Not carrying much of that. But my credit card sits at the front of my minimalist wallet and, as a bonus, shows my geocaching username (which is the same as … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC5A7X0 Bicycle Parking reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here despite an extended search, the hint, and the spoiler image. Confident I’ve found the right host but no sign in the cache. I wonder if another geocacher is hold … | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAHANJ De Dolphijn reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF once some nearby muggles moved along. TFTC. PS Logbook getting quite full, only space for about 20-30 more signatures. | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAB935 Bartolotti House reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy to spot, but I had to wait a while to be able to stealthily retrieve the cache. TFTC! | Continue reading
This checkin to GC5K1KW Behind the Monument reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Love the monument, delighted to see it. Took me a long, long time to find the cache though! Started by looking near the coordinates but couldn’t find anything likely to … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC80871 Amsterdam #9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a lot of walking so far this morning I was glad of the opportunity to stop and take a rest nearby while I signed the log. TFTC, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK. | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAFD8Q Klim OP reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Hiding place is a bit damp and grimy but a bit of digging through leaf litter soon revealed the cache. The nearby climbing frame is epic: my kids would love it! Greetings from Oxfor … | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAFY0Z Van Bossepad reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF while out for a walk. Cache is in bad condition, pretty waterlogged and with its label falling apart. TFTC. | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAD0V7 HJKM Gifts and TB Hotel reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Amazing geocache, FP awarded! I’ve been visiting Amsterdam for the last few days to meet up with work colleagues from around the world, but this morning I’m having a … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC3VCTT Blue Toolbox reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found some obvious hiding places that met the hint. Even found evidence that a geocacher had been here before me. But couldn’t find the cache today. 😢 | Continue reading
This checkin to GC4MDKN rijLes reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. As soon as I was in the vicinity I caught sight of the clever cache container. Log is sadly very wet and was hard to sign. TFTC! | Continue reading
This checkin to GC9XDZ7 het kinderbadje reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. At the end of a work trip to Amsterdam, came out this morning to find a few geocaches before catching the train back home. Thanks for the history lesson! SL, TFTC. | Continue reading
This checkin to GC9MY4J IJtunnel reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My work team and I have been meeting in Amsterdam, but this is our “afternoon off” so we’re going to the maritime museum. I’m not convinced that the person I found was particularly … | Continue reading
On my way out for pizza with my work colleagues, a quick and easy find in the first place I looked. SL, TFTC! | Continue reading
Big thanks to the cache owner for their note. Somehow I'd not seen the obvious route. Followed a family of ducks and soon found the cache location. FP awarded in part for the lovely cache but mostly for the attentive CO who posted a note so promptly. TFTC! | Continue reading
After failing to find nearby GCA7Q4A "Elephant Parade" owing to construction work, I was hopeful of a find here. The coordinates put me exactly on top of a likely hiding place, and with a little exploration (and some pretending to tie my shoes!) I had the cache in my hand. SL, TF … | Continue reading
For my team meetup, I developed a couple of icebreaker games - Heraldry and Compairs - and I'd love to share them with you, if you're interested! | Continue reading
Finding the elephant and the numbers was easy. But some construction is happening at the GZ and I couldn't see a safe/permitted way to get close. 😢 | Continue reading
I've recently changed team at work, so my new team and I have gotten together - from the UK, France, Poland, India and South Africa - here in Amsterdam to meet up in person and do some work "together" for a change: normally we work entirely distributed. After our day of work we d … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC7B9CP Platform 9 3/4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Even on a Monday morning the muggles are lining up to hold the trolley. Not me. As an actual magician, I’ve no need for such frivolities. Instead, as I’m passing anyway on my … | Continue reading
QEF while out hunting for some breakfast this morning between trains on my journey from Oxford to Amsterdam for a work meetup. Lovely thematic cache container in a great spot. FP awarded. TFTC. Hey, this is my 100th post of 2024! Neat! | Continue reading
For the second time, the kids and I had an outing to do some "citizen science" experiments on a local watercourse. | Continue reading
This checkin to GCAP4K8 Village Hall Series 1573 - Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. FTF! Can’t remember the last time I got one of those; it’s been a while. I woke up this morning thinking about an errand I need to run today that would … | Continue reading
I saw a variation of an email from back in the day, which provides a Mad Libs style approach to formulating a country & western song. When I was reminded of it today, I adapted it for Perchance. Give it a go! | Continue reading
Fire, my team at work, has been extinguished and I've been moved to Team Desire. I've struggled to find my feet, but I think I'm settling in now. | Continue reading
The ever-excellent Molly White has wise words to say on the subject of generative AI: specifically - it's actually pretty useful for some tasks, but she's not sure it's worth the cost. This mirrors my thinking so closely I wish I'd written it first! | Continue reading
Me? Underprepared? (He says, literally writing his presentation in the bar at the event...) | Continue reading
West Oxfordshire District Council seem to want to disenfranchise me by requiring that I bring photo ID to a polling station with a different name on it than the photo ID that they themselves issued. | Continue reading
This checkin to GC2W6AF Babel Fish reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The younger child and I had an initially fruitless search in, under and around the nearby bridge before we had the sense to insert our babel fishes, after which the hint item bec … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC51F07 Knapwell one and a half reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The second of two caches found on a morning walk from the nearby Cambridge Belfry Hotel, where some fellow volunteers and I met yesterday for a meeting. This cache l … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC10ZT3 Off Yer Trolley! (Cambourne) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Even early on a Saturday morning, after a volunteering event the previous day at the hotel across the road, this highly-exposed GZ made me feel vulnerable! It’s … | Continue reading
The elder child and I are staying nearby and couldn't resist coming to a nearby cache with so many FPs. The name gave us a bit of a clue what we would be looking for but nothing could have prepared us for for this imaginative and unusual container! | Continue reading
Userscripts are awesome, and you should be using them. Let me rotate some sandwiches for you to demonstrate their versatility! | Continue reading
Let's use some self-data-mining plus a convex hull algorithm to plot a convex polygon onto a map that optimally encircles the entire corpus of my successful geocaching/geohashing expeditions! | Continue reading
In an effort to work-around Google Search's obsession with everything having to be "new" to be searchworthy, Nilay Patel of The Verge reiterates his previous article about the joy of Brother printers, and it's excellent. | Continue reading
This "choose your own adventure"-style game about making the perfect cup of tea is just... excellent. If you lack the imagination to understand how a game like this could have dozens of possible endings, you desperately need to play it. | Continue reading
Sometimes you just gotta have exactly the right prop for a presentation... | Continue reading
The start of April's a perfect time for a "Spring refresh" of a personal website. This year, I'm enabling a handful of experimental new features; visit DanQ.me and you might randomly be selected to try one out! | Continue reading
A promotional video for Aberystwyth University, made in 1984, could almost pass as being 15 years younger than that. Aber never changes, I guess. | Continue reading
What they say: "This site works better in our app." What they mean (optimistic): "We couldn't be bothered to make a good website." What they mean (realistic): "We can track and monetise you better if we can coerce you into installing this." | Continue reading
A fellow jigsaw-hating geocacher, familiar with my work on Jigidi, challenged me to find a way to bypass JigsawExplorer too. Here's what I came up with... | Continue reading
At next month's Oxford Geek Nights I'll be talking about why Oxford's telephone area code makes no sense... until it does! But that's not why you should attend: you should attend because of the five far more-talented speakers I'll be sharing the stage with! | Continue reading
I live near two junctions at which I can join the A40 trunk road. When I drive East, I use the Easternmost; when I drive West, I use the Westernmost; but I almost never drive the stretch of A40 between them! It's inevitable I suppose that there should exist a "road (segment) less … | Continue reading