22 Jul
Posted by Harper in Technology at 08:37 PM
Tags: bad, friendly, myspace, users
So myspace is annoying. Don’t get me wrong. i have two accounts and over a thousand “friends” - but i hate how the site looks, works and exists. It is like the bastion of all i hate on the internet. Bad design, Bad usability and bad user relations. Myspace hates their users. They blame their [...]
09 Mar
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 04:24 AM
Tags: ambientagent, gumstix, hiromi, myspace, nerd, php, podcasting
The last couple weeks have been ultra nerdy. It has been great. I got my gumstix and have been rocking that - attempting to get a handle on how i am going to make that work. It doesn’t seem like it will be all that hard to theoretically make. I am worried about having to [...]
03 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 02:48 PM
Tags: myspace, rants, web-2.0
As you probably noticed, i was at work late last night. As usual, My coworker andrew was also here. Often when it is just the two of us - we theorize and talk about everything that is going on like two old stoners in a VW van. Its nuts. We cover everything from office politics [...]
19 May
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:24 PM
Tags: apple, itunes, myspace, programming
recently apple released a pretty good COM sdk for its itunes program. my friend ajc created some sample code that would post whatever song you are listening to currently to a webpage. I found this pretty cool. and quite handy. so I implement my own v…
18 Mar
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 05:10 PM
Tags: aim, birthday, blogs, bush, business, chris, coding, college, hiromi, insane, irc, myspace, phone, reed, religion, rock, tools, video, war, women
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 …
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