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

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, XMPP, Hacking, Baphomet

So I am in the market for a new laptop. I am currently using a Dell Inspiron 700M which I purchased a couple summers ago when I was doing freelance work. It has been a really good laptop and has gotten a lot of stuff done. So now that the customary 2 years has past, [...]

so damned busy

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. [...]

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check out my new tool

I wrote a new tool after work today. Check it out:I needed a way to view what keywords woudl display what ads with Google’s incredible adsense tool. However – I didn’t really like the adnse preview tool for IE. it was annoying for some reason. so I did some poking about and made this. the ads displayed are using the test flag with no client id specified. so no one is getting …

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Those are my cousins. of course they are awesome. and I will be hanging out with them tomorrow. it should be fun. I am flying out tonight….

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check out this comic. so very very true. unfortunately it is being banned by newspapers all over. too bad it is true. heh. I love shit like that. Some really exciting thing…

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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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it has and it will be. ghosts in my eyes

the last couple days have been pretty weird. I didn’t feel like posting at all. which is in itself pretty different. usually I post as a decompression activity – or because I want to say something. however in the last couple days I have really felt that my motivations for posting on my ‘blog’ were not exactly legit. hah. they were not really illegal – just not necessarily in the same vein as …

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online communities

i guess I still need to write that paper on online communities and the socialization of online relationships. Especially in light of friendster and the development of virtual “ubermensch.” heh. I guess I wasn’t clear in what I was saying. I am naive enough to jump to the conclusion that I can use the idea of the ubermensch when …

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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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