About
My name is Greg Lexiphanic.
I'm travelling from London to Australia, and taking longer than necessary to do it.
This blog is intended to track that journey, and make it a bit more interesting for you to find out what I'm up to.
My name is Greg Lexiphanic.
I'm travelling from London to Australia, and taking longer than necessary to do it.
This blog is intended to track that journey, and make it a bit more interesting for you to find out what I'm up to.
This isn't a how-to for building a site like this, but just how to use it.
A well-designed site shouldn't need a guide to using it, but I'm not really much of a designer.
Just a few tips:
1. You can hide the map. Click "Hide the map" on the map to slide it up out of the way. To get it back, click "Show the map".
2. Photos, Audio clips and Videos can all be hidden, one by one, by clicking "Hide Item" on the right-hand side of the postcard underneath the postage stamp.
3. You can leave comments by clicking the "Comments" button under the postage stamp, too.
My name is Greg Williams. I'm taking a journey from London, UK, to Australia. I've been living in London since late July 2004. I'm about to undertake a trip from London, through Europe, Russia and China without visiting an airport.
I thought that since technology is all advanced and stuff, I'd try and make this trip a bit more interesting for myself and for those interested in my progress by making it easier for others to track me on my journey and by giving me a new way to document it.
So I decided I would conduct an experiment just for the duration of this adventure.
Experiments are conducted to find answers to questions. This site is the experiment.
Ultimately, what I want to find out is whether I'm capable of doing this. Can I build a functioning website that allows me to post to it from a mobile phone and include GPS data along with it? Can I figure out how to incorporate it all as cleanly as possible? Can I make it look interesting?
If you're reading this, then the answer is a qualified "yes". Qualified because I don't think this is at all a clean or tidy solution -- indeed it barely works -- but it does perform the function I'd hoped to have it perform. I can create entries for this blog exclusively from my mobile phone. On top of that, I believe it does look interesting: I aimed for a theme set around the turn of the 20th century (1900-ish, that is). Telegrams, postcards, big old dusty books, imperfect maps... It's by no-means perfect. But this is why it's an experiment.
Under the hood, the site is driven only by Movable Type and a few plugins and should be entirely standards-compliant, including all that proper XHTML and CSS.
You may be experiencing some problems with the site, such as layout or map-related issues.
For example, some browsers have issues loading the map to anything apart from ocean. Sorry about that.
If you have any advice, it would be greatly appreciated. :)
Finally, I can be contacted at greg --at-- lexiphanic --dot-- com, ok? Do feel free to get in touch.