Using a program that logs gps coordinates with WiFi information I have been working on a map of current wireless sites in the area. You can find it here. The majority of the coding cant be appreciated since it has to do with parsing a writing the kml and updating the database. Nonetheless it is pretty cool. I hope to add more data as I drive around in the future.

Went up mount Mansfield about a week ago. We climbed the Hells brook path. You know youre in northern Vt when you climb about 100 yards before you see people smoking something questionable. We hiked about 2700 feet in about 2 hours. If you include up and down the ridgeline at the top it works out to about 20-25 feet per minute. It was quite cold at the top prolly about 40-45, but with a 40 mph wind you needed a windbreaker. There were a few bits of snow at the top. A week later I had climbed Pitchoff mountain in the Adirondacks an had been able to see quite a bit of snow in the high peaks. At the top of Mansfield I met the summit ranger, who was from CT interestingly enough. I took some deepzoom super high resolution images which I have on the new page here.Here are some pics:

"He noticed that if you tabulate the biggest cities in a given country and rank them according to their populations, the largest city is always about twice as big as the second largest, and three times as big as the third largest, and so on. In other words, the population of a city is, to a good approximation, inversely proportional to its rank."..... Read on

I am almost this good, almost.