13 Jun
Posted by Harper in General at 05:51 AM
Tags: blogging, editors, microsoft, windows, windows-live-writer
I love Windows Live Writer. It makes blogging really easy. I don’t have to worry about spelling, forming my links or the technical aspects of creating an entry. All I have to do is type in this app. and BAM. it works wonders.
Anyway, they released a new version of Windows Live Writer. It has [...]
22 Apr
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 06:28 PM
Tags: blogger, blogs, cell, chicago, design, india, phone, phones, windows
my arms hurt a lot. I got my vaccinations today for india. it ruled. however. it has destroyed my arm. DESTROYED. well arms really. both are sooo sore. one of them hoever had two shots. that one is very very sore. the word is that I may be going quite a bit sooner than I had originally thought. which is both good and bad. june was going to work out really well. now I guess may will have to work o…
17 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 02:54 PM
Tags: apple, applications, design, internet, ipod, itunes, music, nerd, php, war, windows
So I have been using itunes for around 24 hours now. I have come to the conclusion that we in the PC world are lucky. We have a plethora of software made by a very diverse set of vendors - all of who struggle.. so each product ends up having its own variation on the solution.. they each have unique features.. and eventually one or two products win. The PC software world seems to be based a bit mo…
16 Oct
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 09:47 PM
Tags: itunes, metal, music, windows
so itunes came out for windows today. it is awesome. well sorta. it was a pain in the ass importing music and such. It is awesome to buy music however. I don’t think I will ever buy another CD. it rules so much. too bad there isn’t more metal. sad day. they need a LOT more metal..
one thing that is awesome.. is I found my
Today I purchased a brief case of diamonds from ebay. I can’t wait to get them. Hopefully I will become very wealthy from this investment..
phunktoad (11:31:50 AM): *these diamonds are actually little cubes of glass from broken car windows.
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27 Dec
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 03:51 PM
Tags: chris, christmas, windows
anyway.. I am sitting here, back at work, typing this entry in lynx - cuz my windows and primary desktop broke good. ;) I have replaced the hard drive and I am now installing win2k .. whee what fun. I cannot remember when I have had such fun. So .. christmas was entertaining. I enjoyed it. I miss hanging with my parents and stuff already. I really like them. however now I get to see Miriam and ha…
13 May
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 07:29 PM
Tags: bush, chicago, fear, insane, politic, politics, reed, war, windows, women
Some activists have papered the city of chicago. It is great. My boss came into one of our offices and pointed out the thousands and thousands of little papers that said “George W. Wants War!” Someone obviously dropped them by aeroplane or by building top. This is a great way to get people to notice. I only hope that it is covered by the papers. I hope that the people get arrested and a big stick…
13 Feb
Posted by Harper in Uncategorized at 02:30 PM
Tags: author, cripple, php, smash, windows
Heh. I really want to port cripple smash to the web. I was in contact some years ago with the author about possibly porting it to PHP or java. It is written right now in pascal. I guess I could convert it to delphi and release a windows binary. heh. If you want, you can download the original BBS door, but you will need a
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