10 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 04:40 PM
Tags: blogs, data, data portability, feeds, google reader, Opml, rss, social networks
The future is obviously data and sharing it.
The dataportability.org data portability group is pretty awesome. It has a boatload of pretty cool people who are talking about amazing stuff. I have done what i always do whenever i find a movement that i appreciate and subscribed to all of the participants blogs. Good [...]
15 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 01:43 AM
Tags: blogs, hosting, watership.org
I have been hosting blogs for my friends for quite awhile. Its a lot of fun. I love reading them and trying to get them to blog more. It is a neat way to learn about people and see what they have been up to without being constantly in touch. It is especially good for [...]
28 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 03:01 AM
Tags: aggregation, blogs, family, mashup, money, rss
I started with thestoryofharper.com and then I created the site for hiromi and myself. So after writing all the cool classes to make this easy I decided to make the blogs.nata2.org site and then tonight I redid the reedbooks.org site to be an aggregate of my families blogs. fun fun.
The sites follow a pretty simple [...]
23 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 09:18 PM
Tags: blogs, magpie-rss, Sites, smarty
I redid this mini site using smarty, magpie rss and some other tricks. It is now pretty nice. I like using wordpress themes. It makes it easier. I can have a decent looking site (they are all blog like anyway) in about 5 minutes. Sometimes its a pain though. But it turned out nice i [...]
omg. This is the best blond joke ever. seriously.
16 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 01:25 AM
Tags: blogs, crazy, internet, mom, movies, music, parents, sleepy, travel
So i don’t usually do it. i only do it when i feel its easy - or maybe when it is hardest. i don’t really know. i imagine you can totally tell by reading my past entries. regardless of how easy or hard it is - i totally thinkthat i need to blog sometimes. and [...]
07 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 05:32 PM
Tags: agile, blogs, books, coding, development, engineering, firefox, gtd, hiromi, management, projects, rails, ruby, yoyo
Yes. it is true. i am freakishly busy. and of course while being freakishly busy i find the most time expensive hobby ever. So matiss and i have been playing quake 3 again. We were playing the requiem mod for hours, but it got kinda boring so we switched to the urban terror full conversion. [...]
10 Jun
Posted by Harper in General at 03:52 AM
Tags: blogs, hacking, posts, rails, sickness, some
So i can walk now. that is an improvement. The best part is that it totally left as fast as it came. really weird. or not weird.
So i made some posts over at 3gcoding. basically i updated it with a couple entries i should have posted awhile ago and then i added a new [...]
i watched godfather part 3, did some stuff for arman, updated musicblogger.org, updated 3gcoding.com, fixored up matiss’s site and cooked some food. and by cook i mean assembled sandwiches and drank juice box like soy milk.
i am so excited for soy corndogs and juice boxes.
i am tired of Russian and German spam.
i [...]
08 May
Posted by Harper in General at 11:22 PM
Tags: blogs, clubbing, cole, hiromi, wordpress
it is kinda late. hiromi and i are waiting for food. how i love you food. my new friend who i will soon destroy. food. my friend food.
i have been sick and sleepy for the last couple days. It sucks. last night i just stayed in and screwed around. did nothing. slept most of [...]
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