Photo: Geopunting along the River Cherwell in Oxford with Dom.
I went Geocaching with dom last night. This was allegedly an OxLUG event, but nobody else turned up until the food at Cafe Uno later on. We hired a punt and went along the river for a while, until we reached a strip of land known as Parsons Pleasure, where GCJP8G should have been. We ended up decoding the clue and coming to the conclusion that the cache had been trashed by muggles. Bah. Annoying. On the way back, we were going to find more caches but didn’t get time to do so. I’ve got the details of a central Oxford cache and might have a look for that next time I am walking around the city centre.
The food session was originally a non-starter, but three of us turned up in the end. Which is still a tiny number, but several people had said that they couldn’t make it. I was not too disappointed since we had some reasonable food and chat. I think the OxLUG wiki shall be used next time I organise a food session – then we can put “likes” and “dislikes” on a calendar of prospective days. Maybe that’s a bit too organised, but I think the voting concept is most fair to those who might want to turn up. Next month’s official meeting is not yet organised and I tried to convince Dom that the idea of doing a keysigning is not a bad one. I think he’s coming around to the idea.
Off to Gloucester for the rest of the afternoon. Birmingham tomorrow. Some hacking still to do on interrupts on this board but at least the Embedded stuff at work was vaguely useful to them.
Jon.