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 (at least [...]
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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 was [...]
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Necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s especially true for software. For a long time, I’ve wanted to display my lifestream as a single page (and on my own domain) in a way I could customize to match my own aesthetics. I tried Sweetcron, Kakuteru, and a few custom scripts for pulling data from [...]
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Tagged: lifestream, wordpress, wp-lifestream-plugin
There has been a lot of musings in the wake of Apple’s iPad announcement. The conversation below took place in 2006. It would be interesting to hear a rehashed version given the state of the industry today, but I thought I’d refresh my memory by rereading. Mark Pilgrim announcement to switch away from OSX: In [...]
From Adam Pash from Lifehacker: “To say that ‘either a device is user friendly or it’s open’ is a false dichotomy.” From Mark Pilgrim’s post: Now, I am aware that you will be able to develop your own programs for the iPad, the same way you can develop for the iPhone today. Anyone can develop! [...]
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While there are a few fledgling Chrome extensions that add the standard Delicious buttons to the user interface. However, that’s not what I really need. I need the Delicious toolbar that Firefox’s plugin has so I can pull up my bookmarks with my favorite tags into the toolbar. As a stop gap, this post has [...]
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So I decided to try to create a graph that showed the flows of the various social networking sites that I use frequently. Lifestream Aggregator in this case refers to three things: Friendfeed, Lifestream Plugin for WordPress (here) and Sweetcron (www.markphilpot.net).
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Tagged: graphviz, lifestream