FWIW, as of today Mingo (GC30), the reported world's oldest active cache, is at 890 finds. Seems the average is one find every couple of days or so. Will probably hit 900 finds early during the Thanksgiving weekend.
Wonder if people will be circling the off-ramp just to be #900  I have heard of putting those little silica gel packets inside cache containers to keep moisture out. I know they will not help if your cache is full of water but they might help with condensation and damp logbooks. Is this common practice? does it work? This script's basic purpose is to let you set the size of the text entry box to maximize your screen real estate. A lot of other things have been added over the years.
In its latest incarnation, it has a forum-like text editor, and new in this version is the ability to add font styles and font color with just a mouse click. Also new is a second text-quote style, in addition to the email-style quoting it had before. This new style is more like what you see in the forums, with the quoted text indented and separated by horizontal lines.
There's now an insert-link button, which makes it easy to put real text links (instead of those lame "(visit link)" links) in your logs. It works pretty much like it does in the forums, except that it doesn't prompt you for the text. If you have selected some text, it will make that text into a link, and prompt for the URL. The cursor is then positioned right after the closing URL tag. If you haven't selected any text, it will prompt you for the URL, then position the cursor in the correct position so that you can type in the link text.
This version also has a off-date reminder. If the date set for the log differs from your computer's date, the date will be highlighted in yellow. A calendar button will appear to the right of the date selector. Click it to automatically set the log date to be the same as your computer's date.
You can also change the entry box font. That's the font you see when you're typing, not the resulting font. So if you want to get back that nice fixed width Courier New font that it used to have, you can. Just select the font you want to use from the font selector. Then from the "Tools/Greasemonkey/User Script Commands" menu, select the "Use Currently Selected Font In Text Editor" option. Then click OK on the confirmation box. If you click Cancel, the font will be set to the site default of Verdana. Again, this just affect the text entry box, not what the final log will look like.
Also brand new is a replacement for the Smiley Icon pop-up window. Before, you had to type or copy/paste the icon code into your log. Now, clicking the Smiley button brings up the Smiley Bar. Just click on the smiley icon you want, and it's automatically inserted into your log, at the current insertion point. If you have selected text, clicking an icon will replace that text with the icon code.
The Smiley Bar always starts out hidden when you open a log. Just click the smiley button that used to open the pop-up window in order to display it.
Everything should have Titles attached to them, so if you're wondering what a control does, just hover your mouse pointer over it.
As always, this is for the Firefox browser only, and you need to have the Greasemonkey add-on installed.
Here's the installation page. Enjoy! It's a beautiful thing to bring up all your nearest caches and none of them have been found 
I can't wait to find whichever box my GPS is in so I can get out there and explore new territory. I have found VERY OLD Cahes in my area that have been Archived they are single # GC caches. I have contacted the owner who is no longer caching he said that he would be more then happy to let me adopt them just don't know how to go about doing it since they were archived a long time ago.
any help would be greatly appriciated.
Scubasonic On a monthly event, we normally only post an "attended" log on the first time, then post a note on subsequent visits. Curious to know what the community thinks about this. For a feature story to be published in The Harvard Post and Bolton Common, I'm looking for any geocachers who live either in Harvard or Bolton Massachusetts and would be willing to be interviewed--in person, by phone, on Skype or by email.
Please respond asap to
eidlitz@gmail.com
thank you,
Sherlockette WIVB-TV in Buffalo (channel 4) will run a short feature on geocaching during the 5PM news on Thursday, November 20, 2008. It will showcase the sport from the finder's point of view as well as someone placing a cache. There is a group of us at the station involved in caching and it got the attention of a news producer. Hopefully it will encourage some new participants in the area.
tvtech A couple of day ago we found the pin wheel,(near rowlett,tx) my son must of set down his tackle box down some where near site of the find. if anyone found this black tackle box you would make a very sad boy  , very happy.
Thanks again,
Mike
mmerten1973@yahoo.com When walking up to GZ, what's the furthest away you have been when you have seen the cache? Not just known where it is, but seen a part of the container. I can think of one I saw from 30 feet away, and it could have been much more if I had approached from a direction where I had an unobstructed view. |
