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Personal blog of Dan Q: hacker, magician, geocacher, gamer...

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[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC6NY43 Benvinguts a la Secuita.

This checkin to GC6NY43 Benvinguts a la Secuita. reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. From the coordinates and the hint the hiding place is pretty obvious, but I can confidently say that it’s not there. 😢

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[Note] Eclipse

Well that was pretty spectacular. 🤩

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6603 Taragonna Aquaduct

This checkin to GC6603 Taragonna Aquaduct reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Quick and easy find while visiting this amazing monument with my family. A hot and sweaty jog to the GZ and soon the cache was found. TFTC!

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[Note] L’Aqüeducte Romà de les Ferreres

Of all the architecture with which the devil is (per legend) credited with the construction, L’Aqüeducte Romà de les Ferreres might be the most impressive. Nice work, Satan.

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[Article] Casa Ventola

[Article] Casa Ventola

I'm spending the week on the East coast of Spain, hoping to see the imminent solar eclipse. And in the meantime, I've been finding local geocaches (including my thousandth!) and exploring the local sights with my family.

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[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC65QKN Benvinguts a Mas vilet dels pins

This checkin to GC65QKN Benvinguts a Mas vilet dels pins reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I spent a while looking at the obvious host, then checked the hint and moved to a series of alternate candidates. It’s probably there, but not somewhere I could find! Eventually I felt too […]

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC8ZYPV AMAGATALL MAS CARGOL – Camps

This checkin to GC8ZYPV AMAGATALL MAS CARGOL - Camps reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I’ve been doing what remains of the Ruta Pels Volants del Mars De Salort series of took a diversion to find this cache. The impressive host didn’t need a hint – she’s pretty easy to […]

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6QV1F #17 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QV1F #17 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find in a now-familiar hide and container format. And while perhaps not as memorable as my walk through the abandoned olive groves to find the damaged cache GC6QTTM […]

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6QTTM #5 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6QTTM #5 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QTTM #5 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. It’s increasingly looking like this series might be in need of some love and attention. With numbers 3 and 4 completely absent and a nearly two year gap since 5 was last […]

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[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC6QTRY #2 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QTRY #2 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A second disappointing search with nothing to show for it. Maybe I didn’t finish waking up yet this morning?

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[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC6QQXW #1 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QQXW #1 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A disappointing start to this morning’s walk. There’s an obvious host that I spent some your poking under without success, after which I turned to the trees to see if they could […]

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC9D4V6 29# CAMINS DE MONTBRIÓ (PARC SAMA)

This checkin to GC9D4V6 29# CAMINS DE MONTBRIÓ (PARC SAMA) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick find after a visit to the gardens with my family. Sneaky container: I like it. We’d accidentally parked the car almost next to the cache! Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK, and TFTC/GLA!

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6QTWA #13 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QTWA #13 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Finding the cache was easy. Reaching around to pull it from its hiding place was harder! But soon I had it in hand. This has been a lovely morning walk. Now I […]

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6QV11 #15 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QV11 #15 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I was glad if the shade provided by the trees along this delightful footpath. Working up a bit of a sweat out here! Had to break from the footpath and kick through […]

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6QTVF #9 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QTVF #9 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find once I spotted a likely hiding place. Starting to feel like I should have had breakfast before I set off! TFTC/GPA, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6QTVM #10 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT

This checkin to GC6QTVM #10 RUTA PELS VOLTANTS DEL MAS DE SALORT reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My family and I are on holiday staying nearby. I came out this morning to explore and try to find a couple of local geocaches while the children were still asleep. This […]

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[Repost] They love RSS

unstory claims that people who, like, me, announce their love of RSS in footers etc. don't actually love RSS, and couldn't handle operating the protocol 'by hand'. unstory is wrong, at least in my case.

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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCB1918 Peggy Bedford’s blocked gate

This checkin to GCB1918 Peggy Bedford's blocked gate reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I’m staying in the Thistle Hotel around the corner before a flight in the morning, and stepped out to find this cache – and some supper – before bed. Sorry to hear about your muggle troubles, […]

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[Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2026-08-07 51 -1

[Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2026-08-07 51 -1

A successful expedition to a hashpoint in a field, while travelling to Heathrow Airport on a Friday evening!

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[Repost] Normal F***ing Sunglasses

DuckDuckGo have gotten into the smart glasses game, and they've come up with a pair that, dare I say it... I would actually buy!

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[Video] You’re Pronouncing JPEG Wrong

[Video] You’re Pronouncing JPEG Wrong

Fighting about the correct way to pronounce GIF is so last decade. Let's fight about how to pronounce JPEG.

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[Note] No green wine gums

No green and only two black wine gums in this bag? Feeling robbed.

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[Article] BeepAlive – keeping my soundbar from going to sleep

[Article] BeepAlive – keeping my soundbar from going to sleep

My dog ate the remote for the soundbar on my TV/media centre, and it keeps going into 'sleep mode'. So I wrote a software tool that periodically makes an inaudible noise to trick the soundbar into staying 'awake'. That's how a hacky engineer like me fixes a hardware problem with a software solution!

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[Note] Sainsburys Grapes

Sainsburys grapes confuse me. 500g of white grapes are £2. 500g or red grapes are £2.20. So you’d expect 500g of half-red, half-white grapes to be… £2.10, right? But no, that’s £2 too. So buying 500g of white grapes and 500g of red grapes is cheaper if you buy the mixed packs and then separate […]

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[Article] (Feeling Fucking) Fabulous in Blackpool

[Article] (Feeling Fucking) Fabulous in Blackpool

This year, MEEK's Fabulous has been stuck on a loop in my head, but I only just got around to watching the music video. Which, to my delight, is shot in the region of what I reckon is Britain's gayest pub crawl. Let's take a tour together...

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[Note] Shipslasher

I want to write a successful YA fiction where all the characters are boats. Just ‘cos I want to see people ‘shipping ships. Also, one of my characters will be called Slash.

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[Note] Chuck Wagon

Apparently, zero of the imagineers building this Disneyland Paris cafe conceived that “Chuck Wagon” sounds like what a cowboy would call a wheeled vomit trough. 😂

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[Article] Contactless Transport in London vs Paris

[Article] Contactless Transport in London vs Paris

Paris is rolling-out contactless tap-in payments for its transport network. Sounds like London's... except that Paris's includes a "convenience tax" that seems to disproportionately target short-term visitors. What might this say about each city's relationship with tourism?

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[Reply] Reply to: This blog is written in en-GB

Terence Eden's blog is (like mine!) unapologetically in en-GB. But maybe his particular cultural references need to be slightly more-specific still?

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[Article] “You saved my life!” (or: how my kids briefly thought I was a superhero)

[Article] “You saved my life!” (or: how my kids briefly thought I was a superhero)

A misunderstanding by my kids this weekend briefly made them think that I'd pulled a stranger from a burning building... when in reality I only lent him a mobile phone charger.