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

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, XMPP, Hacking, Baphomet

importing your old mail into gmail :: go cart action

so today over lunch I decided it would be a good idea to import my old email into gmail. it rules. check out the tool that I am using. written by mark lyon. it works pretty well - albeit very slow. but whatever. I will just have it go in the background. my server has a

stupid sick :: jokesareawesome.com

i hate being sick. it totally blows. I love black metal. I really don’t know how they are related. but I have listened to black metal for the last couple months. and it rules. today was all emporer.
i got bored of choosign music for my ipod - so I let itunes do it this time. it did a pretty good job. I am proud. anyway. last night I played yoyo and cleaned my room. it was co…

oh yea

casshern will be an awesome movie. check out the trailer. >my work may send me to india. that would be pretty cool. ahh. I pull so much bandwidth and have such a fast connection. rule.
rsync: wrote 5848268254 bytes read 2629260 bytes 1479554.31…

sux0r

so my l33t skills didn’t work out today. I totally screwed up my servers. well not really. I am not on my new servers yet. I had to leave my old server in colo - which costs me a lot more money, and I had to use the switch- so I wasn’t able to return it. it sucks. I am pretty pissed/upset. mostly cuz I wasn’t able to pull it off. I mean. I didn’t really prepare as well as I should have. but w…

heh. on the road.

I am in a truck stop in indiana eating some food. We should get into columbus around 2 or so. Then I will be installing my servers tomorrow. It is kinda nerve racking. Cuz I gotta do good ;).

The drive is fun. I forgot how bogan indiana is. It reminds how fun the indy 500 is. Haha. I gotta find me some race fans. Flourescent colored shirts and all. Hah.maybe I will drive …

recently on nata2

i was complaining about not having a really solid way to upload images from my phone to my server. I was using my MMS to photolog script, which totally worked good. but I needed a way to get ALL of the pictures from my camera to my server without havign to bluetooth them and then ftp them and then move them. so I found

so i woke up

and freaked out a bit. I finally calmed down and found out that it will all be ok. I wasn’t freaking out about anything in particular. just freaking out. more of a nervous situation than anything. it was pretty weird. it is funny when you create scenerios in your head and they matter SOOO much - yet 15 minutes later you are like.. “ehh whatever.” basically I woke up, went home, saw that my serve…

i begin the resurrection of my servers

so I sent my boss notice today that I will be taking friday the 9th of april off. this means that I am officially upgrading my servers in the near future. this increases the stress level and my need to work. ;) no more hanging out. haha. well a little hanging out. it won’t take that much time really. I magically and with great luck configured my other box so upgrading should (**should*…

one of my most hated things

is when you lose a blog entry mid creation. ohhhhh. I hate that a lot. I had written about my night here on bald mountain and how it was a lot of fun and crazy. but now I am not interested in rewriting my entry. sad day. so here is the summary:
work dumb
went to bar with matt
bonded with matt
morgan invited us to hang out at watusi
was

sidekick

So I got my sidekick last night - and it has already proven to be a good deal. I got it through a place called simplycells.com for around $79 with activation and rebates. but I just added it to my…

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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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