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.
HTML 5 Video Prep
photo credit: justinsomnia So what caused me to be up till 2 in the morning? Struggling with video encoding, conversion and HTML5 fickleness. Essentially, this is not a process for mere mortals. While video in general is complicated enough, most will and should rely on a site like youtube to share their videos [...]
5.5.2010A Wolfi Photobomb
5.4.2010Windows 7 & Kubuntu 10.04
So over the weekend I refreshed my desktop with both Windows 7 and the latest Kubuntu release. While I have been religiously upgrading the linux side of my dual boot system every 6 months with the [k]ubuntu release schedule, I was still running Windows XP which hadn’t been reinstalled in about 3 years (it [...]
5.3.2010Roland JV-35 ROMs
Below are the three songs included in my old Roland JV-35. While the standard GM complement of samples sounds a bit dated, I always thought these songs were well done and did a good job of showing off the keyboard. Unfortunately the expansion board didn’t include more ROMs… the wide range of sounds [...]
4.22.2010Diane Duane – A Wizard of Mars
A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane My rating: 5 of 5 stars Diane Duane has done it again. An incredibly well crafted story in the universe she has crafted and evolved over nine fantastic books. For any fan of the series, this is a must read. Anyone new, I highly recommend starting from [...]
4.17.2010
Feed Reader
Things I find interesting in my daily feeds
Email Finally Emerges as a Platform: 3 Must-Have Plug-ins & What They Mean
8.31.2010The Most Popular Payment Solutions for Freelancers (Charts)
8.31.2010Deltacloud: Is This the Cloud API Standard We've Been Looking For?
8.27.2010Twitter Fills Tiniest Hole Yet With An Official Bookmarklet
8.20.2010Bay Area soon to be home to 5,050 more EV charging stations
8.10.2010
http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2010/08/Beck-MLK_flow-chart.jpg :: Putting a rational perspective on things.
8.30.2010Dropout Factories, Cont'd Again - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan :: Story from a Cal State Hayward math professor. Worth the read... but it's the sort of thing that makes it hard not to wonder if there is no real solution.
8.25.2010- 8.24.2010
Firefox Panorama: Tab Candy Evolved « Aza on Design :: Firefox Tab Candy has been renamed Panorama and will be included in Firefox 4!
8.24.2010Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Tries to Build an Eco-Friendly House - WSJ.com :: So much harder than this should be.
8.24.2010
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
Development
Personal development streams from my github repositories
Commited Initial view templates to griphiam/qcdb [9.2.2010]
Commited Initializing admin to griphiam/qcdb [9.2.2010]
Commited Adding apache config to griphiam/qcdb [9.2.2010]
Commited Setup apache and admin to griphiam/qcdb [9.1.2010]
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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