The Pradipta 416 caused all of this in less than 24 hours. This is why I love the internet.
http://groups.google.com/group/pradiptas-rolodex
For the full story see here: 416 Random People with RoR…
What do you do when you have a GPS receiver, the internet, and a penchant for treasure hunting? You go Geocaching! Geocaching is a game where you quite literally use multi-million dollar satellites to hunt for boxes in the woods.
The game works as follows:
The caches themselves range in size from magnetic key holders to ammo boxes painted and marked with the word “Geocache”. All caches contain a small logbook where finders can sign the date of their find, their nickname, and maybe even a quick description of the fun they had hunting.
Some of the larger caches are variable treasure troves of trinkets. Geocachers follow a policy of trade equal or trade up. This means that if you stumble upon a cache with a nifty goody you’d like to snag, you must trade that item for something of equal or greater value. This ensures the boxes stay stocked with things to keep everybody entertained.
The caches themselves vary in difficulty from easy to find, to incredibly hard. To make matters worse, since some people may frown upon the idea of geocaching, you generally must stay as inconspicuous as possible while caching. After all, the last thing you’d want to do is give away the cache to someone else hunting, or even worse be witnessed re-hiding the cache only to have it stolen.
The number of people enjoying this interesting hobby is often surprising. Chances are if you’re out caching you’ll bump into another person doing the same. Caches are so wide spread that if you’re anywhere any park, or city, chances are you walk right bye more than a few each day.
I began caching with a few friends from work known on geocaching.com as DrDonut and Raegx. Since then our caching adventures have taken us to various beautiful parks around the Rochester area. I’ve even revisited some of my favorite spots from high school only to discover caches present in the area.
The joy of the find and neat swag aside, the real fun of Geocaching comes from the community itself. The game itself is entirely community run. Geocachers make the caches and post them to the site. Geocachers find the caches. Geocachers police the caches and warn people when they need maintenance. But most importantly, geocachers all seem to be cut from the same adventurous cloth.
An overbearing theme for all caches seems to be to get you to look at your world a little differently. Many caches are placed in such a way that they will take you somewhere you might never know existed. Walking the trail, or even a bit off the beaten path, you’re sure to see something cool and have a good deal of fun.
Happy caching!
After writing my first post describing Road Runner’s annoying practice of redirecting all invalid DNS requests to their own advertising laden search page I opted out. I figured that would be the end of it.
I was wrong.
As of this morning Road Runner ha re-enabled the DNS redirecting again.
How stupid are they? At least now I know how much they actually actually care about their user’s settings.
Road Runer, if you’re reading this. Stop turning this feature on. It’s absolute rubbish and I really don’t want it. When I opt-out of a service this does NOT mean you should re-enable it a few months later and hope I won’t notice.
Advertisement filled domain search sites, once the domain of shady domain squatters, have shown up on Road Runner High Speed Internet for URLs of invalid domains.
Earlier this evening I decided to visit the website for a paint ball field in Syracuse NY. Looking for their address I tried to visit their site http://www.headrush.com. Unfortunately I mistyped and ended up at http://www.headrus.com. I was greeted with the site pictured below.
For the past week or so I’ve been without a reliable internet connection. But now, I’m proud to say we have a reliable means of digital communication!
Now that I can get on the web I can get back to work on my Nintendo DS development and tutorial writing.
For those of you who I know are waiting on my tutorials keep in mind that the devkitPro website contains a good many tutorials in their FAQ and Setting Up websites (which I will be citing information from). So if you just can’t wait to get up and running, I highly suggest visiting their site.
