AJ beat me to it but this past weekend the two of us drove out to Manassas National Battlefield Park to visit Saturday’s XKCD Geohash location for Columbia heights (see the xkcd comic for context here.)

It was my first time doing something like this and I had a great time. We used OSMTracker for Android – an excellent tool for recording tracks and capturing points of interest. I haven’t come across an equivalent iphone app that do these two things together well.

Coming home with fresh collected data is strangely enjoyable.

I’m starting anew. Since I started working at Development Seed in January of this year I’ve thought about building a new site that was technically simpler, that wasn’t about showing portfolio work and that wasn’t Drupal.

Instead, I want a site for myself that’s focused on writing, code and drawings. A more selfish place to document my progression and ideas. I’m going to try and draw a little stamp to go a long with each date and I’ll be updating the way the site looks as content grows.

The site has a different layout on browsers that support media queries

@media all and (orientation:portrait) {
  /* css goes here */
  }

Colophon

For fonts, I’m using helvetica as a base and font fonts, ‘Meta Serif Web Pro’ for paragraphs via Typekit.

Jekyll powers the site and GitHub pages hosts it.