Programming Entries Our Process: Automation: Journal Photos G Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 This entry is part of an ongoing series about how we've documented our adventure. As of this writing, our journal contains approximately eight thousand photos, distributed over eight hundred and... Our Process: Google Maps & GPS Tracks G Friday, December 24th, 2010 This entry is part of an ongoing series about how we've documented our adventure. Throughout our trip, I have saved our GPS tracks nightly. My plan to maintain one unbroken line, showing every ... Our Process: Automation & the GSDB G Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 This entry is part of an ongoing series about how we've documented our adventure. When we left on this trip, neither of us had an inkling that we'd be documenting our adventure in such exhaustiv... Working at Lake Teletskoye G Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 We started our day looking for information about Uchar Waterfall. Our investigation turned up some interesting news: the falls are very young, just a few hundred years old, and they were only discov... Parental Controls G Thursday, August 12th, 2010 If you are a parent or teacher who is sharing Going Slowly with your children or students, please be aware that there is some adult content contained within. We want to help, but rather than censor ... Goodbye, Blogger G Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Goodbye, blogger! I have officially migrated all five hundred and twenty of our journal entries, and nearly two thousand comments to our own server. This journal is now stored in our database, and ... Working in Berlin G Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Today, we spent some time designing a new website for our road trip. It is going really well! As was the case when we made Going Slowly, there were some frustrating bits where we stared at the scre... Read Our Journal in 50+ Languages! G Thursday, May 6th, 2010 This feature is currently missing on our new design, but will return eventually! Spurred by several conversations we've had over the last year with non-english speakers who have expressed a desire... Site Updates G Monday, April 19th, 2010 We've received several reports over the last few months that the search feature on our journal was pretty awful. In response, I've just implemented a new google-based search. The results aren't pr... Journal Interface Update G Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 We've received several emails from people saying that they often accidentally click on images and feel it is confusing when they are directed to a Flickr photo page. I've updated our site so that wh... Website Additions G Saturday, November 14th, 2009 I finally spent some time this weekend working on integrating our Bicycle Touring Database with our website. Most of the changes were to the google map on our home page. Each marker now shows photo... Database Live G Saturday, October 24th, 2009 We started this trip by simply recording our GPS coordinates every night and maintaining a budget in excel. Over the last six months we've added all sorts of features to our website that we didn't o... Journal Update G Thursday, October 8th, 2009 We've received several emails over the past few months with people requesting an easy way to read our journal from start to finish rather than hunting through dates on the navigation pane. I've put ... Going Slowly Features G Friday, August 28th, 2009 I spent some time programming a few new features for our website today: You can view our photos (updated in realtime) from our website! You can now view our GPS tracks by country in addition to... Garmin Tracks & Google Maps G Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Our GPS unit records our position every few seconds while we ride to a 'track log'. We have been downloading these tracks nightly to keep a record of our journey. I have been meaning to hook this i... Google Maps & Spot GPS G Sunday, January 11th, 2009 We received our Spot Satellite Messenger this week. I spent some time this weekend working with their sharing interface to set up a Google Map that will show our current/past locations on the home p...