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Went geocaching again with Madman and Cozmanian. Found 2 out of 3. The first cache was a a camo-duct tape covered jar in a hollow tree, covered in crickets. There was a really cool geo-coin inside it too. I didn’t take the coin as I haven’t been doing this very long and to be frank about it would probably have wanted to keep it. Coz said much the same so we left it. I meant to grab my better camera but all I had with me was my phone, so the pics are from that. I also figured out a trick for getting co-ords into my garmin without a serial cable and laptop, turns out you can set a mark, then immediately edit it and set it to where you want to go. This is nice as I’m beginning to think that the gps in my iphone is fubared.

I had found some cards I made for this website a while back (with a really old, crappy logo on them), so I threw them into the bag so I could leave them in caches. If you’ve come to this website because you got the URL from one of my cards left in a geocache, let me know. I’ll make some better cards if people are actually finding them.

The 2nd cache we found was a micro, in a magnetic key holder under a lamp post in a parking lot. This town seems covered in micros, I’d love to see some bigger ones. I’d also like to see some caches where the person placing them knew what poison ivy looks like….

Unh, not a good time. No one’s fault but my own, but I’m not going to let that stop me from complaining. I decide to Geocaching this afternoon. I’m not sure what I was thinking, but thin shorts and a tee shirt are not the proper equipment to go rooting around parks and people’s backyards in. To further add to my frustration, I discovered that I can’t add new way points to my little GPS unit without the cable and a computer, or by standing on the spot and marking it. I’ve been playing with the iPhone geocaching app as my data source and using a little Garmin as my GPS, as the Garmin is a WAY better GPS than the iPhone, too bad I’ll have to lug a laptop around to program the thing if I deviate from my planned hunts. So, here’s the checklist for next time:

• Research the caches your going to check out before leaving the house
• Program those caches into your GPS and know it’s functions before leaving the house
• Dress appropriately and bring the correct equipment

Maybe I should just never leave the house, I’ve got enough electrotics projects laying around and more than a few videos that need editing.

I’d been coding all morning and I knew I had a lengthy report to write in the afternoon, so I decided to go for a walk on my lunch and do some impromptu GeoCaching. I recently picked up the app for my iPhone to review on Nameless(7), so I thought I would test it out. Well, long story short I didn’t find any caches, but I did find a secret door to China! Considering that the code I was working on all morning was a log parser for a SSH honeypot, and one of the first results was that computers from China were the most common attackers; I was hoping I could use the door to head over there and nicely ask them to stop.