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

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

WTF TicketMaster

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 [...]

Wesabe is neat

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So weddings. and working. and being poor.

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 [...]

Security of a transaction

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 [...]

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 [...]

  

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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