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Exploring Quote of the Day

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Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ~Frank Borman
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Geocaching and Blackberry

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Today we tested the Geo Navigator software for my Blackberry.  In a word, wow.
This is just the kind of application I’ve always wanted for a GPSr.  It can find my location.  From there, it can list the nearby caches within a radius I designate.  Makes geocaching on the road so much easier.  I can also [...]

Quote of the Day

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“Walking is man’s best medicine.”

~Hippocrates

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Traded My Sea Legs For a Geocache

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It had to happen.  Yesterday, we took our boat off the lake.  For the next six months, I’m sentenced to the land alone.  I’ve traded my sea legs for the chance to land a geocache or two or several. Photo by post406
Boating is one of our most favorite summer activities.  There’s such a sense [...]

Lake News–Peak Fall Colors

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The fall colors turned out especially brilliant this year. We’re at peak fall colors. It’s hard not to be thunderstruck by the intensity of the colors. With the cooler temperatures, I fear the show will be ending soon.
There’s lots of activity on the trails these days. Small migrating groups of finches [...]

Exploring Quote of the Day

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“Live each season as it passes;
breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
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GPS ‘Spoofing’ Could Threaten National Security : Discovery News

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  A disturbing article came from Discovery News this weekend, bringing to light the vulnerability of GPS on national security.
Computers have been hacked since probably they first began.  Recent hacking of Sarah Palin’s email and my own experience with my contact data being lifted off of Ameritrade highlight the need for awareness and security measures.
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