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Netbabble: Getting The Show On The Road

Our second beta podcast is imminent – keep an eye on Netbabble for it’s appearance. I am quite excited about this. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogs, Definitely Me, Netbabble

Graphic Novel Review: Maus

Last year I read Watchmen for the first time. I read it before watching the movie because I didn’t want my perception of the novel to be influenced by the movie, I wanted to compare the movie to the graphic novel. I’ve read edgy graphic novels before, but I was primarily brought up on a diet of 2000 AD and Batman. After reading Watchmen however, I made a pledge to broaden my reading spectrum and seek out more edgy, interesting and unusual graphic novels that don’t feature super heroes – particularly ones that have not yet been made into movies. I picked up a copy of 500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate Guide and one of the first novels I decided to purchase was The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman. Maus is the … Read entire article »

Filed under: Books, Bookshelf, Graphic Novels, Worthwhile Reading

Warning: Blog Temporarily Subject To Change!

It’s going to take me a while to setup this blog just how I like it, as well as get the right set of widgets, so please be patient when you find yourself coming back and seeing something completely different! Cheerio, Wes. … Read entire article »

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Welcome to wafitz.net

Well that was quick. My main blog has now been moved over to this domain, soon I’ll be picking up the other blogs and attempting to do some interesting things on this website. I’m working out a way to publish my previous Geocaching logs on a blog, which for now will be utilised through the xml-based pocket queries. But hopefully this can be a base for listing puzzles and multi caches too. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogs, Definitely Me, Geocaching, Projects, WaFiTz!

Geocaching Statistics

A little while ago I discovered www.itsnotaboutthenumbers.com and was using their embedded html on my profile page. It’s a fine web based tool but I’ve recently come across something cooler which provides even more details – and the best thing about it is it’s cross-platform including Linux. GCStatistics from MacDefender is a tool which you download to your desktop. Once you open it there is a button to automatically log into geocaching.com and order your ‘My Finds’ pocket query (limited to 7 days). When you get the email you then load the gpx/zip into GCStatistics and select the criteria you want to create statistical charts on all your finds. You can then export to html, but you don’t even have to switch to your browser and log in, GCStatistics will let you click … Read entire article »

Filed under: Geocaching, Linux, Statistics

Egosurfing

Happy New Year! Hey I got a new domain: www.wafitz.net. I haven’t done anything with it yet but I intend to start moving ‘operations’ over there. This blog, maybe a static webcam, geocaching related stuff. And I’m working on a weekly(?) podcast with my brother in law – we’re just ironing out the technicalities. Speaking of domains and online activity. Ever since I did my first egosurf (way back when we were all surfing web 1.0 with 56k dialup, Google was a sound a baby would make, email was the fastest way to communicate and AOL was a formidable giant of the web) this website is what drew in the top results. The image of the little girl has been “picture of the week” for the last 300 weeks. The whole website … Read entire article »

Filed under: Definitely Not Me, WaFiTz!