14 Aug
Posted by Harper in Technology at 04:25 AM
Tags: applications, endeca, open-source, oss, search, software, solutions, wikipedia
Just a warning to all who would read this - i think i was a bit tipsy when writing it. so it is very very ranting and probably doesn’t make sense.
I have been playing around in my head with scenarios of what must happen when an organization which has a philosophy of using only open [...]
04 Aug
Posted by Harper in Technology at 07:34 PM
Tags: encyclopedia, endeca, search, wikipedia
So Wikipedia is getting a lot of coverage for all of the doings of the wikimedia foundation ($100 Laptop Partnership, Wikiversity, Wikiwyg). A lot of amazing stuff. And not only amazing - but helpful and really community friendly. I think that Wikipedia is really in a place to change the world. However - with that [...]
31 Jul
Posted by Harper in Technology at 01:16 PM
Tags: encycopedia, endeca, joel, joel-on-software, search, software, web-2.0, wikipedia
So i think it is awesome that seth godin was able to “convince” google to give joel on software a google search appliance. That is amazing. I mean - Joel probably needed a better search engine, but what makes me mad is this:
Wikipedia needs a better search engine more than joel on software needs a [...]
12 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 02:11 AM
Tags: engine, optimization, search
So mark and I are going to start blogging at riottech.net for fun and profit. we are attempting to experiment with SEO and blogs and such. it shoudl be an interesting experiment. check it.
20 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 07:14 AM
Tags: birthday, chicago, crobar, insane, parties, search, war
so tonight I went to crobar. my friend dayle met me. he is crazy. I am crazy. we hung out. he was giving me a ride home and he got pulled over. he may or may not have been driving crazy. I don’t know. however we got pulled over. the cops pulled their guns and told us to get out with our hands up. we both did. they made us get out and they searched us rather throughoughly. (that is spelled horrib…
11 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 07:09 PM
Tags: adsense, apple, audrey, audreyhacking, blogs, coding, design, google, hacking, harper, internet, mambo, osx, php, reed, search, Sites, source, war, wiki, wordpress, work
where the deer and the antelope play. where seldom is heard a discouraging word. and the eyes eat cowboys all day. Oh yea. it is the weekend. I am soooo sleepy. I am going to have a meet and greet. and then have a meet and sleep. and t…
09 Nov
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 06:30 PM
Tags: books, fear, haxored, hong, job, kong, movies, politic, politics, search, travel
this morning I woke up early. like 7:00. I was having a dream wher ei was invader zim and I was able to time travel (a combination of the two things I did last night between 2:30am and 4:00am). it ruled. I just buzzed around and had time traveling problems. I am currently reading this book by authur c clarke. it rules. I forgot what it is called. I have not bothered to look at the titles of the l…
25 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 01:26 PM
Tags: action, amjad, books, chicago, coding, crobar, games, google, halloween, harper, hiromi, internet, job, juggle, matiss, movies, nokia, nyc, philosophy, phone, school, search, Sites, tools, video
heh. yea so my friends have “caught” me. busted for sure:
[@vanwinkle] is harper giving up blogging?
[clock] yeah I think so its been forever
[@vanwinkle] whatever happened to three post per day minumum?
[@scottv] he got a job
So basically I have been just chilling out hard. not doig anything. I get home…
01 Sep
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:51 PM
Tags: apple, cell, chicago, development, haxored, juggling, laptop, nerd, nokia, phone, search, travel, war
so today - I am chilling - taking a shower and my wall attacked me. I was just brushing my teeth in the shower and I turned around and the wall that was facing my back lost all the tiles. It was …
22 Jul
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 06:47 AM
Tags: action, chris, community, crobar, hacker, itunes, nokia, phone, search, war
so we have been workign to launch this search engine for a couple weeks now - and I think we got it. congrats everyone involved. hehe. i have been playing a lot. tonight I made a juke box for some friends, I hooked up my new website, and I slept from 6-10
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