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

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

IRC is a very strange place

I sit on IRC quite a lot. Most of the time in #corporate on efnet. I have been there pretty much everyday for the last 5 years. Kind of insane. I love shells. anyway, in the past couple months some friends and i were talking about starting another channel. So we brainstormed some channel names. [...]

The other day, I decided to finish up a twitter hack idea I had and never fully executed. Awhile ago I made a bot that output the updates of my friends into my IRC channel. I did this by writing a quick bot that would log into a dedicated AIM account which received updates from [...]

Technology is pretty dope. IRC on a plane.

I am currently flying at 36000 feet and going around 600mph. I am using my laptop and its connected to the planes wifi. Weird. I didn’t know planes had wifi. hah. But apparently this one does. And more importantly, its free cuz they are canceling it soon.  Its from the Connextion by Boeing, which is basically [...]

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 got up late today. it was a bummer. I did na mean to. but I kept
having WEIRD dreams about doing menial tasks at work. so nerve
wrecking. they were stressful dreams. not as awesome as other dreams.
and my eyes are sleepy. and I am hungry. and and andlast night
we went to the science and industry museum - it was closed. suxor.
hah.  so I think I am going to go tomorrow with h…

yep. i am kinda sleepy

contrary to the usual circumstances - I did not go out tonight. weird I know. but I am trying to knock out this website. I would say I am about 80% done. which is good. I did about 40% today. which is also good. so if I don’t sleep all day tomorrow I will be able to knock the rest out. one thing I did today that rules - is generate pdf files with php. its awesome. yall shoudl check it out. in th…

figured it out

the past couple days have been real chill. I have listened to front 242 exclusively. it is nice. I am a fan of head hunter. of course. i remembered again how to use multiple irc servers with scrollz:/window new hide[esc 2]/window server irc.whatever.org/join #irule

hello hello

this is dumb. heh. BREAKING THE LAW!!
this weekend was pretty fun. I got my hair severly cut on friday. no more

accurate punctures

so I went and got accupuncture last night. I think I am done for a bit. I originally went to alleviate some back pain I had gained from wrestling - however the back pain is gone. so wheni arrived yesterday I realized that I really had know ailments for her to manipulate. I was perfect. so the session ended up just being weird and boring I mean.. it isn’t really suppsoed to be entertaining - but …

sidekick

So I got my sidekick last night - and it has already proven to be a good deal. I got it through a place called simplycells.com for around $79 with activation and rebates. but I just added it to my…

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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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