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google is my favorite friend/evil entity

this is an excellent write up on the incredible google maps. the most important thing he says is:

I also think it bears noting that Google is pulling out all the stops
to build rich web apps, no matter how weirdly they have to hack the
browser to make them go. And I strong…

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interesting milestones.

i was playing around with my blog software and I noticed something pretty cool. I have taken over 1000 pictures with my nokia cell phone cam and have roughly 2525 pictures total in my photolog. I have taken pictures of a bunch of neat stuff. it is pretty cool. I have wanted to make a view that is the text from the blog and the pictures all in one fancy view. but I haven’t. maybe soon. haha.

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when showers attack

so today – I am chilling – taking a shower and my wall attacked me. I was just brushing my teeth in the shower and I turned around and the wall that was facing my back lost all the tiles. It was …

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oh yea

last night was pretty fun. seriouly. I posted a bulletin from my cell phone on friendster. it is pretty insane. love opera.

yea I went to a pretty dope party last night called “motherfucker” – haha. it was nice a lot of pretty people. a lot of platform shoes. a ass load of pictures. that will be posted. hehe. two cameras. one of with me. and one with jordan. it is gunna rule…

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i drove my bike all around.

last night I got home from work. went to the mega mall and got my yoyo case. it rules. so insane. haha. I will take a picture. matiss got a cell phone. haha. ;) i rode my bike a bunch yesterday. apparently around 15 miles. I haven’t rode a bike in years. it was interesting to find myself getting back in to the hang of it. I can now ride for a long time with no hands. it is pr…

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fifteen inch imac

so yesterday at work we watched the movie startup.com. it was pretty good. a quite sad story really. it made me want to be involved in a startup again. haha. I say agan like I was involved in one during the .com wars. I am a liar. I wasn’t. in fact I don’t even have arms.

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rupies crack my shit up.

last night my friends and I went to this pretty nice resturant and had excellent food and free beer. the night was advertised as “unlimited intoxication” – which seemeingly is a misnomer. what does misnomer mean? so we hung out there and I had excellent tandori chicken kabobs and lotsa fish. it all ruled oh so much. good good food. then suresh and I went to a club called spin. apparently there is…

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rupies

i just added 1000 rupies to my cell phone. haha. rule. pre paid cell phones rule so much. I may never go back. haha. all my calls will be international roaming from india. haha. you might be able to send me an sms message if you go here. all hours of the night I hope to receive messages from yall. haha. I rule.

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so. this is a story

yesterday and last nigth was pretty fun. guru, siddu and myself all went around bangalore again. this time we hung out in a very popular and modern area with lots of shops. I went to this great little shop that had some nice sandlewood and such. it was all very nice but really expensive. so I lost money in that gamble. and probably yall gained some gifts ;). I then purchased a swatch watch(mainly…

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photolog

i modified my photolog so it will show the whoel collection of pictures from my cell phone, not just the most recent real time pictures. check it out here. heh. the photolog is by far the most commented on part of my site. I also think it is cool. ;)

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. 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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