Some derision exists within the Geocaching community for those players who only go after the FTF – or First To Find – on a newly published Geocache.
If anyone were to look at my recent logs on the Geocaching Website or indeed the stats on my Geocaching page on this site it would certainly seem that I am becoming one of those hated FTF Junkies.
I, Cornell Finch, do hereby promise that I am not becoming an FTF Junkie!
I fully realise that my track record is not great. I have managed just two caches during 2010 and both of them were first to finds. I would have been daft NOT to go for this morning’s FTF though.
For months I have been thinking about placing a cache near Fareham railway station and never got round to it. Laziness, lack of time, enthusiasm? Call it what you will, it didn’t happen. Now the opportunity is gone. GC23M6M Sidetracked – Fareham was published at 08:47 this morning.
Lazy me was still in bed when the email arrived! I decided not to go for it, got up and dressed and made the tea. Then I changed my mind. 0.2 miles from home? DO IT! So I did.
I thought it would be a great opportunity to test out the Geocaching Application on the iPhone but still grabbed the GPS just in case. I’m glad I did as, although I didn’t need the GPS due to local knowledge, the iPhone was suggesting an accuracy of just 56 feet when I was at GZ, the Garmin eTrex, as ever, completely spot on at 9 feet accuracy.
I grabbed the lovely badge (on the right), signed the cache log and then logged the cache from the iPhone on the way home. I was back and drinking the still hot tea within about 15 minutes.
I really must make the effort to do some of those cache rings that I keep seeing GeoSOM posting about on Twitter and prove (to myself and the world) that I am not an FTF Junkie.
Even though I am…
Shock horror! A work related post on a personal blog? How could you Sir?!
Anyway, we have been looking to purchase a Vodafone Sure Signal (previously known as the Vodafone Access Gateway) for a remote site in a “rural” area that has really weak mobile phone signal.
Essentially the unit connects to your existing broadband and enhances the 3G signal to give reliable performance from your (3G enabled) mobile phone.
I was reading the first mini-review that comes up when you Google “Vodafone Sure Signal Review”, which happens to be this blog post from James and I wanted to quickly comment on his blog and say thanks for the information. For whatever reason, probably the work proxy server, the page is not loading correctly and there’s no option to comment. Ok, let’s resort to the next best thing:
THANKS JAMES!!
I think we’re going to order one of these for the remote site (after making sure that they have an ethernet port spare on their router) and I will post my own mini-review if/when we do.
There’s been yet another fuss on Facebook today about an Un-named application in your profile, slowing down Facebook.
ALERT >>>>> Has your facebook been running slow lately? Go to “Settings” and select “application settings”, change the dropdown box to “added to profile”. If you see one in there called “un named app” delete it… Its an internal spybot. Pass it on. about a minute ago….i checked and it was on mine.
Indeed, some people have deleted the unnamed application and their FB sessions seem to have speeded up.
Alan Hart has posted information which I am going to quote verbatim in an effort to get this info to as many people as possible:
it is NOT a virus or spyware, it is your “Boxes” tab, and Facebook is going to be getting rid of it soon, you can remove it yourself from your edit applications list if you want… not sure if Facebook will be replacing it with something else yet
Source(s):
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Tabbed_Profile
Please also be aware that when searching for this on Google I ended up at a page which wil tell you that your pc needs a scan (this is malware/spyware). So please be careful, it seems that whoever started this facebook “status” is just trying to get people googling and direct you to this harmful page.
So, remove it if you must but it may well screw up something that Facebook is working on for the future. Also, take note of the second paragraph in the quote above, NOT clicking that link is even more important than removing the unnamed app.
I don’t know how much I will use this but it’s here if I need it!
Having rushed on 31 December to make my Geocaching target of 200 finds I set myself a target of at least 200 caches for 2010. Since then I revised that to aim for 400 this year. To find 400 caches means an average of 34 a month for the next 12 months.
Holy Carp! It’s 22 January and I have found a grand total of one cache. Tonight. As my lovely wife was making the dinner the Blackberry pinged. At 7.30 on Friday evening it was unlikely to be anyone from work so I looked. Sure enough there was a new cache published, and only 1.6 miles (as the crow flies). Graham’s Pubs & Clubs 1 is down near my work and an area I know fairly well.
Within 5 minutes I was driving down the road, GPS navigating, pen and torch in pocket. Absolutely no trouble finding the cache, even in the dark. Apparently I beat another local cacher by about three minutes and a third by not much more. Sorry Bernie and Simon! I had Twittered my find about a minute after finding and before driving away and I had a very quick response!
The most remarkable thing was the fantastic Help For Heroes Geocoin I found in the cache. I have heard of them but not seen one in the flesh:
It’’s bloody huge and very very heavy! It has to be around 3 inches across. I will (obviously) place this traveller into another cache but I have to find one of these for my (currenlty small!) collection
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