Category:Science & Technology
I’m getting sick and tired of spam! First, I get flooded with spam via e-mail. With a little help from my hosting provider, I got rid of most of the spam in my mail. Now, I get spammed through our blog. Anoying!
So, I have decided to close the blog for non-registered users. And I don’t even know if I will allow people to register.
We had made plans to do a little geocaching with friends today.
We started of the day with a revisit to the Hoolstmolen geocache (GCPYZW). I could find the stash last Tuesday. I got a few tips from fellow geocachers this time. With the help from their tips we were able to locate the stash pretty fast. We took the time to log this cache and take a few photos before heading to the main attraction for the day: De Kleppende Klipper geocache (GCMY3P).
The weather was just excellent for a little Sunday afternoon walk. It was a bit chilly maybe but very sunny, hardly any clouds. Excellent weather for photography too. Cache was easy to find. Would have been a nice spot for a picknick. Here’s a few photo’s.
Wasn’t as lucky today as I was yesterday: couldn’t find the geocache I had planned for today. I know the site quite well, ‘cause I visited that mill several times with my grandmother as a little kid. After reading the cache log, it seems I am not the first one who can not find this cache. I’ll have to return to the Hoolstmolen cache (GCPYZW) with reinforcements to help me look. Hopefully we can find it next Sunday.
I’m having 2 weeks of from work. Plenty of time to spend some time photographing and geocaching. I started today by hunting down geocache GCQPWF. This cache is very close to home, so I can not leave it untouched. The foliage overhead resulted in poor GPS reception, I had to look for quite some time before I found. But I did manage to find it in the end.
We left for London—for a 3 day trip—early this morning. Way too early actually. On to Brussels to catch the Eurostar to London. The 5 of us (Thomas, Kelly, Luc, Lies and myself) checked in at the London Marriott and then got on our way.
We started our trip with a little geocache on Abbey Road. The famous Abbey Road Studios have a webcam overlooking the crossroads where the album cover for the Beatles’ album Abbey Road was shot. The cache (GC6F12) was easy to find and with a little help from our friend Robert, we managed to grab a couple of webcam pictures that allowed us to log the cache. Of course we have a couple photos from the cache on our gallery.
Our visit to Madame Tussaud’s took most of the afternoon. I love Madame Tussaud’s. It’s the ideal practice ground for an amateur photographer like myself: all the models are famous and patient, and all of them will have their photo taken as many times as I want. I have a
couple photos posted in our gallery.
We spent the rest of our evening a Heather Nova concert at Shepherds Bush Empire with our friend Luc. He’s a big Heather Nova fan, and it was his birthday. So he was very excited to go to that concert. And so was I. Great show, great finale… Heather closed here show with a cover of Springsteen’s I’m on Fire.
Just a quick note to let all of you know that I have finished the theme for our gallery. Our blog and our gallery should have pretty much the same look and feel now.
I’m updating the theme of our gallery to match it to the layout of our new blog. This is a major overhaul of the basic Coppermine themes currently in place. It’s gonna take a lot of work and quite some time to get it done. I’ll be testing the new theme from time to time and you may see a garbled lay-out on our gallery.
The blog software we used for the previous version of VICTORIE.com proved to be insecure. So it is “out with the old one, and in with the new”. We have migrated to worlpress over the weekend. With a little help from Peter Vancorenland, who also migrated his blog recently, I got the software up and running in no time. Thank you Peter for your info.
We hope everyone will continue to enjoy our blog.
We drove to the Ardennes yesterday for a little geocache. Never heard of geocaching? It’s a high tech version of a little game called hide-and-seek. Someone hides a little box with goodies and then tells you at which coordinates the box is hidden. All you need to do is to take your GPS and find your way to that little box. Sometimes you have to solve small puzzles or find other things a long the way to get where you need to be.
Got you interested? Check out Geocache.be or Geocaching.com for more info.
We tried our luck on the cache GC8342. Arrived in the area shortly before sunset, but since we knew it was just a little hike, we’d gone ahead, took our gear (GPS and camera) and tried to find it anyway. The stash was easy to find and we had plenty of time to enjoy the scenery. A pity that we didn’t arrive sooner because there is was very nice there: very beautiful place for a day hike and to shoot pictures.
VICTORIE.com is now fully migrated to a blog powered by Simple PHP Blog. We finished migrating all site news entries on the VICTORIE.com homepage and also moved all static pages to the blog format. This marks the birth of VICTORIE.com v5.0. In the next days, we will adapt the look-and-feel of our photo gallery to make it the same as the rest of our site and that will complete the migration of our site to a fully scripted and automated site.