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

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This weekend was pretty fun. Hiromi and I hung out a bunch. We went and saw Grindhouse. it was entertaining. I didn’t like planet terror. I realized half way through that I really don’t like a lot of Rodriguez’s horror movies. I like Sin City and his none zombie movies. Not his zombie movies. However, [...]

I got a new Nokia N73

So I sold my Nokia E61 to my friend Scott - he will probably use it more than I and he doesn’t mind it not having a camera - and I used the money to pick up a Nokia N73.
The Nokia N73 is a really nifty phone. It is a bit longer than [...]

Goddamn fancy phones

So i am on the train and i amd playing with my phone and i end up frying my sim card. apparently nokia has some security implementations that will fry your sim card if you enter the pin code wrong more than 5 times and then enter the PUK code wrong more than 10 times. [...]

If you guys were really my friends

You would buy me this: Nokia E60
It is hard to not buy it. But i need to wait until i get paid extra or something.. man.. so tempting. stupid computers.

Nokia N80 is released

I was talking to my “phone connection” and it looks as though the nokia N80 is out in the wild. You can check it out here. The N80 seems like a pretty cool phone. it has all the features that one could possibly want - good camera, good os, good form factor and wifi.
I think [...]

check out this comic. so very very true. unfortunately it is being banned by newspapers all over. too bad it is true. heh. I love shit like that. Some really exciting thing…

Nokia 7610

So on new years day i got a little “carried away” and got my Nokia 6600 wet. The joystick immediately stopped working and all hell broke loose. i was unable to do anything fancy like call or text. it was so annoying. so i got out my nifty little Sony-Ericcson t610 and continued my day. [...]

Mac Mini! oh yea. part deux

so I got my mac mini. it came during my last blog entry. I was excited.
of course. apple had to pack it all nice and such. I appreciate how minimal a…

old boy.

old boy been working hard. dang dang darn. today I shoudl get my mac mini. so I planned for its arrival. I brought a fancy knife that I use to open things like apple computers, I brought a couple dual headed screwdrivers. and I brought a camera. I am ready t welcome the little guy into the new world. this has brought me to start thinking how silly the things I carry on my person are. so…

yo

happy xmas.

i made my photo frame ibook work. it rules. I just mounted it into a picture frame shadow box, and BAM. fanciness. it rules that you can remove EVERYTHING from an ibook and still h…

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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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