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
Delicious
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 Adding Hyphenator, style clean up to griphiam/bibliopress [1.9.2012]
Commited Finishing about page to griphiam/isupergp_jquerymobile [11.6.2011]
Commited Fixed zooming on select to griphiam/isupergp_jquerymobile [11.5.2011]
Commited Adding logo and loading screen to griphiam/isupergp_jquerymobile [11.5.2011]
Commited Fixed footer, removed ui-bar due to horizontal rendering issues to griphiam/isupergp_jquerymobile [11.4.2011]
Commited Adding python server alias to griphiam/etc [11.4.2011]
Commited Initial working version to griphiam/isupergp_jquerymobile [11.4.2011]
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.
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