Philippe

History

After growing up in Ville-la-Grand, in Haute-Savoie, I spent two entertaining years in Annecy. Then 3 years of ENSEA and a stint at ESSEC. After being thrown out of the military service, I joined a group of nuts who wanted to build the reader's workstation for the BibliothËque de France (French Library). I came to California with Alexandre and we worked for 6 months on Xanadu with Ted Nelson. After a few month at Photon Machines, a still born startup, I joined Electronic Arts where I learnt 3D and video games. I worked on Shockwave, RoadRash 3D and finally Sim City 3000. In January 1999, I co-founded Xenote. After a short but wild ride, Xenote closed September 22nd, 2000 due to lack of funding. I waited for the Canon D30 digital reflex camera to ship and left for Burma and India. I am currently getting ready to spend the ski season in Val d'Isère.

Life

I am not a sportsman, unless it involves skiing or sailing. I take pictures when I feel like it. I am an ordained priest of the Universal Life Church. Every morning, I take a cappuccino at Caffe Roma before going to work at Xenote®. I believe I went twice to Burning Man. Some may think I am a geek but my food tastes are more sophisticated. I moved in January 1999 to a flat in North Beach.

Friends

Soon, everybody will have a home page. While we have to wait for the others to get to work...

Kaspar and his famous yellow bus
Mike, the anonymous genius behind the Suck-o-Meter
Piero, music, cognitive sciences and tourism
Luc, for all the Mathematica fans out there
Arnaud who does not work at Autodesk anymore
ChloÈ, Margaret and Arnaud's baby
Gilles showing off diving pictures
David, Glorf
Jean-Michel magician, inventor, writer
Thierry and his planes. Try yak as a password
Marion who speaks mostly of Sweden, not enough of herself.
Yann webmaster of his flight-club's web site
Chuck VR guru
Bernard and his blazingly fast networks
Bruce specializes in lizards and gamma ray bursts, when he does not sip wine
Eric, so many images in his resume, you'd think he is an artist
Steve makes computer look like humans.

Yet, some let their pages disappear

Jean-Michel (Xelph) under construction because nothing but perfection is acceptable