It’s been a while since I placed the image on the right on my website and so I thought it was well past time to explain a bit about it.

As the text says, the image displays my statistics for Geocaching.

When I’m trying to explain what Geocaching is to the uninformed, I describe the hobby as a year-round world-wide easter egg hunt. It could also be described as using multi-million dollar technology to locate Tupperware in the woods. The game only requires a GPS receiver device and a bit of ingenuity and insanity. It is enjoyed by several million people and has grown from one single cache placed in the year 2000 (when the GPS satellites went live) to over 1.2 million today pretty much only by word of mouth.

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If anyone is interested in creating wallpapers for the Droid, I’ve mapped out the layout of the icons, notification bar, and menu dock:

Also, here’s a really good resource for wallpapers, be warned though, some of the wallpapers here are a bit immodest. ::Howard Forums Android Wallpaper Thread::

Since this is a blog, I suppose an update of sorts is needed. While it’s been a busy past few weeks not much has really happened.

I’ve needed a phone upgrade for about a year now. My xv6800 has been all but worn out. Sure a new battery would fix the 2 hour battery life, but it really wouldn’t fix the slowness, the GPS being locked out, or the randomly missed calls. Hint: the phone is supposed to ring when calls come in.

This caused a dilemma, I knew I wanted another smartphone, and I was pretty dead set against another Windows Mobile phone. Microsoft really needs to scrap the whole thing and start back at the drawing board if it wants to get in the game. What I wanted was the iPhone. Problem was I’m on Verizon and still had until January 2010 before I was out of the contract.

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