http://nancyfusco.com/wp Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:55:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always cachin', even on day's like this: A race to the top to find this nano cache... hee hee, we're the Outlaws: Gloves, I don't need no stinkin' gloves. Well, actually that would have been nice. Never you mind - on to the next cache ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2010/02/mammas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-geocache/ Relatively warm yesterday....well, relatively being 31 degrees, I loaded a few urban caches in my GPS to see if I could find them downtown Des Moines. With urban cache's I've got a chance that they won't be completely buried in snow. Ok, let's go! Did a loop around the Library to ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2010/02/urban-nanos-snow-what-snow/ Quick trip down to Florida to visit friends and family - with a Geocaching adventure of course! In my little town there is a Veteran's Memorial park on Main Street. All these years I've driven by here I didn't know there was a geocache right up under this truck in a ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2010/02/florida-geocaching-sign-of-the-catfish/ Alright, so that's not exactly how Shakespeare wrote the verse in Merchants of Venice, but none-the-less n'ere snow nor freezing fog shall reign the cruel maddness that is a winter gone too long without geocaching. Drove out towards Gray's Lake / DSM Water Works hoping to find a few caches that ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2010/01/you-take-my-life-when-you-take-the-means-whereby-i-geocache/ I notice that most of my winter, aka "snow", pictures have this dull gray color to them. For quick white balance correction in Gimp, open the image. Now from the menu on the Image, choose COLOR | AUTO | WHITE BALANCE [caption id="attachment_911" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="click image for a larger version"][/caption] Gimp's ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2009/12/quick-white-balance-correction-in-gimp/ Some quick pics from my house in Iowa during the Blizzard of 09. Let's review. 14.5 inches of snow 40+ mph wind 7 degrees http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2009/12/snow-days-are-great-but-no-geocaching/ Jenny and I drove up to Ankeny, Iowa to Kidman Tree Farm to pick out a Christmas tree. We spotted a cute spruce with a sparkle in her branches so we took her home. Oh, you think that's the whole story huh? Nah! We were out to geocache on one of ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2009/12/4-4-geocaching/ I've been cleaning up some junk files off my linux laptop and deleted files from various directories with no problem. Well, then I go to Empty the Trash Can when I get an error message - something about can't delete those files due to permissions. Did some google searching and ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2009/11/how-to-delete-undeletable-files-from-linux-trash/ Got the Visual Editor in Wordpress 2.8 working again! From the Wordpress archives page mentioned in my last post, I re-downloaded a fresh copy of the zip/tar file and unpackaged it. My thought was, perhaps my FTP client is corrupting (by not transferring file types in the correct format (ASCII or BINARY). ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-visual-editor-fixed/ Hi. Ever hose up a wordpress upgrade? Ever upgrade and then stuff went really wonky? Ever dream of going back to the perfect wordpress version, whatever your idea of the perfect wordpress version is. Ok, now you can - visit the Wordpress release archives and download zip installs of every major ... http://nancyfusco.com/wp/index.php/2009/11/downgrading-a-wordpress-install/