markphilpot.net
My name is Mark Philpot and I'm a software engineer in the San Francisco, Bay Area.
This space is my social networking footprint (lifestream).
Blog Posts
Occasionally I need to write something longer than 140 characters, post a picture or comment on a video.
Django Settings Management
I started with David Cramer’s blog post on establishing a hierarchy of settings that can be progressively overridden with the ultimate goal being something like “cascading settings.py” I found David’s post a great starting point, but he glossed over many of the details that I thought would be rather important when setting up a system [...]
1.11.2012Command Line Ninja
I used to have a page dedicated to these CLI modifications, but at some I must have deleted the page. Thanks to the waybackmachine.org, I was able to get the content back! showlevel (alias l=’showlevel’) #!/bin/perl -w my $pwd=`pwd`; my @parts = split("/", $pwd); my $level = (scalar(@parts)-1); # Want to show which directory we [...]
3.21.2011New Domain
Looking around, you may be thinking: “Something’s different… What’s changed?” I’ve moved this blog to it’s own domain: www.totiso.com which I guess soldifies the name. I played around with longer variations, but turnontunein just looked funny. This way has a more phonetic ring to it. I’ve placed a redirect at blog.mcstudios.net so all links should [...]
1.26.2011King’s Quest VI OST
King’s Quest VI was one of my first “obsession” games. I first played it at Matt’s house who had x386 with enough memory to run it. I can’t remember what sound card he had (either a SoundBlaster 16 or Pro Audio Spectrum), but it was something with emulated Roland MT-32 MIDI and even then, the [...]
9.23.2010
Feed Reader
Things I find interesting in my daily feeds
WIN: I’d Vote For Them In 2012!
9.22.2011Game theory explains why you're willing to pay more than a dollar for a dollar [Psychology]
8.18.2011Watch Harrison Ford's epic reunion with Chewbacca, it will give you chills [Video]
7.29.2011A simple physics demonstration that shows why science still sometimes seems like magic [Video]
7.29.2011- 7.28.2011
- 8.16.2011
- 6.16.2011
- 6.14.2011
- 6.12.2011
1 day and 60 miles left to go! (and I only have to take down the tent at 5am one more time).
6.11.2011
One hundred forty character thoughts...
8.30.2010
RT @xwordy: It’s important to keep some perspective: Dr. King versus Glenn “Crocodile Tears” Beck - http://bit.ly/cXXPEq
8.26.2010 Anyone know how to configure the microphone in #google #callphone app?
8.25.2010 I liked a YouTube video -- INCEPTION Official Theme | Drum Remix #22 / PART ONE http://youtu.be/u6yYtOaP2_c?a
8.24.2010 I liked a YouTube video -- Paradise Lost - Christmas Metal Symphony 2008, ftr Russell A... http://youtu.be/Id2dzytdn-s?a
8.22.2010 I liked a YouTube video -- Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! http://youtu.be/1jQ67cdzDyI?a
![Edguy - Superheroes [Epic Version]](images/default.jpg)
Pinboard
My link collection
Goodreads
What I've recently read
Movies
What's current going through my queue...
Development
Personal development streams from my github repositories
Commited Test encryption/decryption successful to griphiam/cryptbook [4.25.2012]
Commited Using progress bar to griphiam/cryptbook [4.24.2012]
Commited Basic login/logout to griphiam/cryptbook [4.24.2012]
Commited Initial login form to griphiam/cryptbook [4.23.2012]
Commited Added more details to the 0.5 release history. to griphiam/raven-java [4.1.2012]
Commited Added controls over async queue. Bumped version to griphiam/raven-java [3.31.2012]
Commited Added basic queue to appender to make sending to Sentry async to griphiam/raven-java [3.30.2012]
Image Bookmarking
Help hone my own photography by studing the works of others via vi.sualize.us. In general tagging interesting images around the net.
![allin1.co.in , Gallery [ Title: sloth ]](http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/aa/11/aa1126991a5ad650b7d60b1ba1d8d261_m.jpg)
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