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

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

email is not around right now..

I am freaking out.. hah. my email isn’t really working right now. I foward all email i receive from harper @ nata2.org to my gmail account to use gmail as a simple reader. And this morning as soon as i got into work i am unable to access my gmail account. I can access my [...]

can’t sleep. stupid cold.

seirously. i just lay in bed. feeling sick. breathing out of my mouth and bummed that i can’t sleep.
so i thought up a couple interesting ideas that i would like to take up in the next couple months. First - a set of discrete devices that are connected via a bluetooth PAN. like a small [...]

i rule

So i was persuing google and i was googling my name - yea know checking up on myself. doing a background search to see if i am insane and worth hanging out with. you know you do.. maybe not on yourself.. but i get concerned that i am too crazy. so i had to check.. [...]

another quick little gmaps hack

Rental Vacancies in greeley colorado via gmaps and PT vacancy list. w00t.
i really need to write a better blog entry.

kinda sick. so a summary

i have been sick recently. it sucks. not like ILL. just a cold. it will be done shortly i hope.
i have a phone interview soon.
google rocks.
the internet is almost normal now.
pinback was good last night. so was this weekend. here are a bundle of pictures: 1, 2, 3. yep. fun fun. [...]

So last night i went with scott to see Billy Corgan’s new show. My friend brian is playing keyboards in it so it was nice to see. The stage is amazing and i like billy’s new stuff. it was weird cuz i haven’t been to a concert in a very long time. so being [...]

see.. i told you so.

So i had written some crappy post on how i made this it said:

here check it out here. i have been listening to only t. rex. i love it.

After thinking about it - i decided that this weekend deserved a better entry than “yea look here blah blah blah.” So here goes.
Friday was [...]

sleep is for the weak

just wanted to let yall know that.
i am busy writing a meld of google maps and the illinois sex offender data. so far it is pretty scary.
eep…

one thousandth post.

Lots and lots of writing has taken place. it is pretty nuts. i have been blogging since march 1st 2000. it is pretty nuts. A lot of words. a lot of randomness. a HUGE number of rants and a couple emotions. hah. mostly just drivel. it rules. Since 2000 i have had [...]

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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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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