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

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

Campfire perl bot hack

So i was playing around with campfire and i noticed that i could easy write a bot for it. so i did. it sucks. but it shows what you could do. how i love www mechanize. and perl. check it out:
http://nata2.info/?path=code%2Fcampfire_bot_hack
Oh yea. campfire is sweet. the 37signals guys did a great job. although i am [...]

I am going to Haxor my t-amp. Super Klasse

So. I have been at work a lot lately.
So my amp mod is pretty dope. Although i get a fierce hum when i charge the battery - i have decided to move forward and build the rest of it. I think i am going to build four distinct parts. First the power supply. i [...]

t-amp hacking

I purchased a t-amp awhile ago and have been listening to it in it stock form for the last 5 days. i am quite impressed with it. It is as good if not better than my receiver i had before. Last time i looked to purchase an amp i was frustrated with the availability of [...]

New York Peeps: check out Heath’s new group for watching movies. and such. i imagine it will be a good time.
I have been playing with my PSP a lot more. today on the bus i solved contra. that game is damned hard. seriously. wtf. what kid is going to be able to do that. [...]

good long weekend.

I am glad to be back to work. I can’t wait to really hit work hard. i feel it coming soon. the work. i am pretty excited.
i am thinking about bulding an intranet
haha. just a place to put rss feeds and the like of our various interweb resources.
anyway.. this weekend:
On friday after [...]

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 [...]

Juicebox haxoring

So awhile ago i was cruising the make flickr tags and i noticed the juicebox frame and i thought “i like frames. they are fun.” So i decided to go get some. unfortunantly they were all gone from walmat, or target so i went to the linux-hacker boards and found a dude who was selling [...]

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 [...]

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 …

where the deer and the antelope play. where seldom is heard a discouraging word. and the eyes eat cowboys all day. Oh yea. it is the weekend. I am soooo sleepy. I am going to have a meet and greet. and then have a meet and sleep. and t…

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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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