<p>A quick diversion before a hike up Gramp's Hill and along the Ridgeway. After collecting the required information I pressed on to the cache, meeting some friendly ponies and horses on the way.</p> <p><a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/08/20260829_091846…

<p>A few attempts at hacking through the brambles to get near the hint location had me thinking that perhaps this was a wintertime only cache... before I realised that there was a different route by which I might approach it. Soon I was directly atop the…

<p>Found cache contents first, some of which I was only able to identify thanks to the photo in the previous log. Cache container, minus lid, was found a reasonable distance away, but this badly-damaged, nearly-destroyed cache is a goner, I feel.</p> <p><a…

<p>This morning I came up to explore the Ridgeway and escape from thinking about Life Stuff for a bit. (Although escaping from the rain wasn't a possibility! It was real wet up here today!)</p> <p>I was wandering this path in a bit of a reverie when I spotted…

<p>A challenging but worthwhile find during a walk along and around the Ridgeway.</p> <p><a href="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/08/20260829_092952-scaled.jpg"><img src="https://danq.me/_q23u/2026/08/20260829_092952-640x330.jpg" alt="A windswept and rolling rural…

<p>Like many before me, from the looks of things, I didn't find the cache at the published coordinates but about 11 metres away at N 51° 34.086', W 001° 26.441'. Possibly worth the CO checking if those coordinates work better for them, too, during their next…

<p>Found the clues and solved the coordinates, but I've JUST walked past the final location a while ago and don't feel like doubling back today!</p> <blockquote> <p>A=How many letters in the word underneath Knoxville?</p> <p>B=A*2</p> <p>C=Number of letters…

<p>Found the grave, but this is <a href="https://danq.me/2026/08/29/dan-q-wrote-note-for-gc9f5yc-gis-in-letcombe/">now</a> the second offset I've found here that's asked me to double-back on my walk. Nope! I'm just going to save the calculated coordinates…

<p>QEF while passing through the village on a circular walk. TFTC!</p>

<p>Despite immediately honing in on exactly the right host, it still took me an embarrassingly long time to find this cache. This, despite having found - and even hidden - cache contsibers of exactly this type before!</p> <p>My usual technique for lazily…

Ava's take on techbro ideas of "privacy", and in particular the situation with "smart glasses", is especially well-written and worth a look.

The other month, David Bushell made a tongue-in-cheek interactive simulation of the state of modern desktop applications. It's pretty fun, and I see what he means.

My fellow volunteer Oliver Earl has been picking up on his blogging and asks, with reference to my archives... how do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say? And then he comes to the correct conclusion:

I descaled the coffee machine yesterday. We live in an exceptionally hard-water area and this maintenance was long overdue. This morning I turned the machine on and something felt unfamiliar and wrong. I couldn't put my finger on what, until I realised...…

Quick check while I was passing, as nobody's logged this cache during our stupidly-hot July or August (and I don't blame them: it's been horrible outdoors!). Anyway: the cache is fine and healthy and looking forward to its next visitor!

Thirteen years ago, it seems, a DVLA form processor decided that my name must have been a company name, and incorrectly registered my car's keeper as being a non-existent company imagined to share my name. And I only just found out.

Thirteen years ago, it seems, a DVLA form processor decided that my name must have been a company name, and incorrectly registered my car's keeper as being a non-existent company imagined to share my name. And I only just found out.

Michael Lynch uses a tongue-in-cheek metaphor as a vehicle through which to argue against the ubiquity of the term 'content', and I agree: we can do better with a richer and more-specific definition of our arts.

HTTP status code 204 means "no content". No update. Nothing to tell you. F-Day plus 204 brings the same meaning: a disappointing lack of updates to the efforts to repair our house following getting flooded-out in February.

HTTP status code 204 means "no content". No update. Nothing to tell you. F-Day plus 204 brings the same meaning: a disappointing lack of updates to the efforts to repair our house following getting flooded-out in February.