May 19th, 2004

Letterboxing: Geocaching without the GPS

Geocaching is sort of like global hide-and-seek (with hints) for technology geeks. I stumbled upon a non-GPS version of this diversion, known as Letterboxing (not to be confused with letterboxed movies, another subject entirely).

By the way, if geocaching isn’t enough “fun with a GPS” for you, you can try The Degree Confluence Project. See the world with a GPS, experience other cultures, learn a few words of the local language:

The Thais kept asking how many farang (foreigners) did this and how much they got paid. I must have heard the phrase “farang Baar”, (foreigners are crazy) more than a couple of times that evening.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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