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Here’s the deal…my wife and I have maintained a site (blog) for my son since he was born. Now that he just turned a year old, I would like to go back and make a book out of the first year’s worth of posts. I would like an actual hard bound book, capable of having pictures.

I found a piece of software called BookSmart, made by the folks from Blurb. It looks like it might do what I want, but it has a limited number of templates and options. It does however have support for “Slurping”…basically if your blog is hosted at Wordpress.com, or a few other blogsites, it will go out and pull down all the posts/comments and automatically (if you choose) populate the book for you. However in practice, this didn’t work quite so well. I temporarily made a copy of our blog at Wordpress.com just for this feature. It ended up only getting the first couple months of posts, and no comments.

I have been looking for other options to do what I want, and the only other thing I have found is some Mac software (iLife I believe)…but alas, I don’t have a Mac.

Has anybody else done this, or heard of it being done? I wouldn’t be opposed to manually copying all the posts/comments myself if I HAVE to, but that would be a lot of work…and there may be a better option.

Geocaching is basically a world-wide scavenger hunt where all you’re given are GPS coordinates.

You can read more about geocaching here: http://www.geocaching.com/.

From the site:

What is usually in a cache?

A cache can come in many forms but the first item should always be the logbook. In its simplest form a cache can be just a logbook and nothing else. The logbook contains information from the founder of the cache and notes from the cache’s visitors. The logbook can contain much valuable, rewarding, and entertaining information. A logbook might contain information about nearby attractions, coordinates to other unpublished caches, and even jokes written by visitors. If you get some information from a logbook you should give some back. At the very least you can leave the date and time you visited the cache.

Larger caches may consist of a waterproof plastic bucket placed tastefully within the local terrain. The bucket will contain the logbook and any number of more or less valuable items. These items turn the cache into a true treasure hunt. You never know what the founder or other visitors of the cache may have left there for you to enjoy. Remember, if you take something, its only fair for you to leave something in return. Items in a bucket cache could be: Maps, books, software, hardware, CD’s, videos, pictures, money, jewelry, tickets, antiques, tools, games, etc. It is recommended that items in a bucket cache be individually packaged in a clear zipped plastic bag to protect them.

Currently, there are 80 hidden caches in Texarkana.

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