Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

Since Google just changed the game of mobile software - I got to thinking about my new fascination - Contact management. So the first place I go to is Gmail and Google’s new contact manager. Being an iSync freakout, I love syncing my contacts. I LOVE being able to bring in contacts from all my [...]

A vibrant music community has been ended

Pretty insane. Oink has been raided and the owner has been arrested.
Oink was a really neat tracker. It was apparently fast, clean and super easy. Apparently it was the biggest private bittorrent tracker. Around 180k users. That is a lot of dedicated users.
It taught a bunch of people I know about bittorrent. It was used [...]

A email response from a friend

Awhile ago I got this email from a friend. It is about the Medical Marijuana problem with Iraq veterans. I thought you guys might like to read it. So here it is:
I just read the article you posted about medical marijuana and veterans and it definitely was intense. Its a shame that they are [...]

Tell him to stay in his tree

Today I found out that my dad was placed into the hospital to help him fight his infidel skin. Basically he has what is colloquially known as “extreme eczema,” but basically it seems that his skin is attempting to hijack his body and run it into a building. So with that in mind, he went [...]

Legally of course.
But everyday I am discovering new music and listening to interesting artists. The internet is awesome. I can’t really imagine what it would be like without it. I mean, I am able to think to myself “I would like to learn about classical music” and find a place that is offering an entire [...]

No. 10: Medical Pot and the Iraq Veteran

I just read this article. It is about an Iraq Veteran and his battle with post-traumatic stress. Pretty intense - but worth reading. You can check out the article here - even better, read the full version here. Its very well written and a solid read. I guess its pretty somber, but it seems to [...]

IRC is a very strange place

I sit on IRC quite a lot. Most of the time in #corporate on efnet. I have been there pretty much everyday for the last 5 years. Kind of insane. I love shells. anyway, in the past couple months some friends and i were talking about starting another channel. So we brainstormed some channel names. [...]

Recent readings. All the books in the past few weeks

I thought I would give a rundown of some of the books I have been reading recently. In the last couple weeks, I have been interested in non-fiction reading.  I go through phases were I am suddenly really into books on different sociological issues. For instance, the hikikomori book I read awhile ago, and my fascination [...]

My new fascination: Sachs Madass

I don’t know if it has something to do with the motorcycle gas that runs in my blood (a lot of my relatives are “bikers”) or if it is my dream of looking and being like madmax. Whatever it is - I really like how the Sachs Madass looks. Today at lunch we were walking [...]

I am not excited for the US to attack Iran

I am not a fan of our current administration. I don’t like how they work, what they do or what they have done to our country. I haven’t voted them in. I have participated in removing them from office - without success.
And now that it seems we are on the eve of an attack [...]

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.

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