19 May
Posted by Harper in General at 02:56 PM
Tags: annoying, costs, events, expensive, fraud, money, stupid, ticketmaster, tickets
I really hate TicketMaster. Seriously. They are scamming people left and right. It is insane how much tickets are. Today - hiromi and I decided to go see Jon Stewart at the Rosemont Arena. I jumped online and found that they were selling tickets at TicketMaster. I immediately was scared of how much they were going [...]
07 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 11:34 AM
Tags: budget, finances, money, savings, wesabe
I started this post awhile ago. But with my brothers angry credit card company post and my angry student loan post, I think a post about how to easily manage ones finances is more topical than ever. So anyway… My official attempt to better manage my finances all started about 6 months ago when Hiromi [...]
16 Feb
Posted by Harper in Technology at 10:52 AM
Tags: ad-revenue, adsense, eaccelerator, money, performance, Technology, tips
Whenever you read about tips to increase your Adsense earnings, you always get the same five or six tips about placement, color, and defeating ad blindness. Here are three that I remember:
Make sure that your ads blend into your site
Place ads in a prominent place
Make sure they are visible to all visitors (regardless of screen size)
These have [...]
28 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 03:01 AM
Tags: aggregation, blogs, family, mashup, money, rss
I started with thestoryofharper.com and then I created the site for hiromi and myself. So after writing all the cool classes to make this easy I decided to make the blogs.nata2.org site and then tonight I redid the reedbooks.org site to be an aggregate of my families blogs. fun fun.
The sites follow a pretty simple [...]
27 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 01:17 AM
Tags: money, sox, sports, weddings, white, work
So i keep screwing up my money world. I keep paying bills to aggressively or whatever and making myself poor. its stupid. i hate it. i am about to stop being poor. haha.
The past week i have been at work forever. I have been chaparoning the graffiti guys at work and staying late working [...]
16 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 02:15 PM
Tags: money, privilege, security
I think it is interesting that i can make a purchase and then use the restroom in a restaurant - but i wasn’t allowed to before i made the purchase. Like going to starbucks and buying a coffee so i can use the bathroom. the 3 dollars means i could use drugs, kill children or [...]
06 Sep
Posted by Harper in General at 01:24 PM
Tags: birthday, fun, hacking, money, movies, parties, psp, rani, work
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 [...]
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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