21 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 12:19 AM
Tags: aging, awesome, birthday, harper
Guess what?! I am 29 now. heh.
Jamie Reed: Happy Birthday!Jamie Reed: you know, you are officially 29, I think you were born about 12:15 amnata22atan: oh wowJamie Reed: in Chicago, isn’t it about 12:20 or sonata22atan: yeaJamie Reed: so Happy Birthday. 29 years ago you were about 10 minutes old
I love birthdays, but as [...]
24 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 08:11 PM
Tags: google, harper, harper-reed, nerd, search-engines, seo, web
So my name is harper. It isn’t a very common name, so I have always had luck with being pretty high ranked in the results when a person searches for my full name “harper reed,” but when you search for my first name I am often beat out by such “cultural giants” as ben harper, harpers [...]
13 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 08:46 PM
Tags: amazing, big, family, fun, harper, hiromi, japan, life, marriage, tokyo, travel, yamanashi
So Hiromi and I are all married up now. Exciting. It was a weird and bureaucracy filled trip these last couple months and it all culminated with an excellent trip to Tokyo with my dad and Hiromi and us getting hitched.
So, apparently, attempting to get a visa to the U.S. is a bunch of work. [...]
24 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 02:14 AM
Tags: funny, harper, humor, jokes, me, Sites
Check it out here: jokesareawesome.com
I made it a bit more user friendly, made it a bit more web 2.0 and really fixed up the backend. The biggest change is that i added youtube content and added all my nata2.info pictures. I want to start doubling my nata2.info income. hah. maybe by replicating the site. haha. [...]
22 Feb
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 02:09 AM
Tags: congress, geoip, geotag, hacking, harper, politics, webapps, websites
I need some new sites. Speaking of which - I am making a new site: geopoli.com. It is a geotargeted political banner ad and text ad delivery site. I want to make it so you can include a dynamic image or JS code snippet on your blog or myspace profile and it will display to [...]
09 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 10:54 PM
Tags: 2.0, 37signals, awesome, bot, campfire, chat, hacking, harper, irc, web
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 [...]
11 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 07:09 PM
Tags: adsense, apple, audrey, audreyhacking, blogs, coding, design, google, hacking, harper, internet, mambo, osx, php, reed, search, Sites, source, war, wiki, wordpress, work
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…
04 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 06:56 PM
Tags: blogger, development, dylan, family, harper, itunes, itunesblogger, phone, reed, screensaver, symbian, war, watership, wordpress
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….
14 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 03:09 PM
Tags: apple, business, harper, juggling, phone, video, yoyoing
i really like yoyoing. I made up a couple trick. I am calling it harper rolls. haha. I really can’t do it yet. soon. then video. then RULING?!
there is a HUGE juggling convention this weekend. but I am sadly going to have to stay home nad work. it sucks. stupid work. always getting in the way. I am going to punch it. right in the head. PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH.
i picked up a surp…
i am fixed. but now I need a new book. I imagine I will wait until tomorrow - when I am in colorado. or maybe I will get one tonight. and then I can read it tomorrow. on my way to colorado. here are some pictures: y bar a week ago, and
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.
Be sure and take a gander at my photos.
If you want to contact me click here to start a chat.