wibble

We’ve found something to keep us active during the winter months: geocaching. Basically you try to find ‘treasure’ that other people have hidden using latitude and longitude co-ordinates given by the person who has hidden the cache.  (Or you can use a clue if you need it). Once there you can sign a logbook to let others know you’ve found the cache, and you can also take or place little ‘trinkets’ - hence the ‘treasure’ :)  This works best with a GPS receiver, although some of the caches still take a bit of looking around even when you have the exact co-ordinates.

With over 200 of them within seven miles of where we live, we should be kept busy for a few weekends, and get us going to places we wouldn’t otherwise have gone to.

That’s how old the ZX Spectrum is this year…. How time flies! I remember playing loads of games on the Speccy all those years ago.

There’s a brief video article on the BBC website about the Spectrum - watch here - and also an article on the BBC site.

For those early computer users:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6314251.stm

I guess they’ve served their purpose and time moves on etc, etc.  It still bugs me though when someone has a 5Mb file they want putting on a CD - what a waste of a CD

(And yes, I used to call them stiffies - jokingly of course.  It makes sense as they weren’t as floppy as an older 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. )

The iTrip will soon be made legal - on 8th December.  This is a change to a 57 year old Telecommunications Act, passed in 1949.  I’ll be getting one, as it sure beats having to either take a CD, or burn copies of CDs in case you don’t want the original to use in the car.  Now you’ll be able to have 20Gb/30Gb whatever and be able the change music a lot easier and quicker.