17 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 10:28 PM
Tags: code, csharp, development, google, hacking, Technology, tools
I wrote a new tool after work today. Check it out:I needed a way to view what keywords woudl display what ads with Google’s incredible adsense tool. However - I didn’t really like the adnse preview tool for IE. it was annoying for some reason. so I did some poking about and made this. the ads displayed are using the test flag with no client id specified. so no one is getting …
17 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 01:08 PM
Tags: birthday, books, college, games, hiromi, irc, matiss, museums, Sites, tools, war, work
i got up late today. it was a bummer. I did na mean to. but I kept
having WEIRD dreams about doing menial tasks at work. so nerve
wrecking. they were stressful dreams. not as awesome as other dreams.
and my eyes are sleepy. and I am hungry. and and andlast night
we went to the science and industry museum - it was closed. suxor.
hah. so I think I am going to go tomorrow with h…
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…
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 …
10 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 09:12 PM
Tags: advertising, aim, chicago, chris, family, google, hacking, hong, ipod, kungfu, linux, mom, nerd, phone, php, reed, search, security, tools
so a week or so ago I went to this party for the chicago thong organization, it was really funny and strange - but my friend chris and I participated in the activities and wore thongs and capes(which was the costume of choice). well later that night we were at a club and one of our friends snapped this really great
07 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 04:40 PM
Tags: action, bush, chicago, iraq, matiss, php, politic, politics, tools
I need to fix my car. when I say fix - I really mean register and insure it in chicago. I also need to get a chicago license. I have been skirting the law for awhile now and I can no longer do it(btw I am insured.. just not registered.. ugh). heh. last night matiss and I invited some cats to come over and watch the spooky michael jackson interview. boy that d00d is a weirdo. jesus. it is all very…
Well. I go home today. I am excited. I love sleeping in my own bed. so nice. and it will be the first time in awhile. Last night I exported my IPOD music db to a comma delimited file and imported it into endeca(the search engine I am at training for). This was a fun exercise - it showed me a bunch of neat things… like how much music I have ;) You can really get a nifty view of your data when yo…
07 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 10:22 PM
Tags: asia, bush, family, google, hacker, halloween, harper, humor, internet, iraq, movies, phone, reed, rock, school, search, server, Sites, tools, video, war, watership, websites
today I am tired. I have been working all day an I just don’t feel well about it. like I should have slept or something. it is weird. I mean I did get up a bit late.. but I feel so “walking dead-ish” - ugh. whatever. I will wake up right *now*last night I got an email from riply’s believe it or not about our friend rusty. they si…
28 Jan
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 03:29 PM
Tags: chicago, design, php, source, tools
Here are some cool links. first off check out this. Be sure and read the description. heh. then check out this. and finally check out this - http://www.select-media.co…
Today a dumb ass cracker rooted one of my boxes. It was a cobalt RaQ and was running sendmail and an old version of sshd, so it “deserved it.” I had done a lot to make it more secure, however the default web admin tools that my clients use relied on sendmail and telnet and such. it was super sketchy. So anyway, the reason I say that it was a dumb ass cracker, was because they tried to install a r…
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