Gabriel Harper’s Blog

I was digging around my computer looking for a particular media file needed for a project when I stumbled across these pics from last summer. There was a very intense and long-lasting heat lightning storm visible from my rooftop, so of course I grabbed my camera and tried to capture some of it. At the time I was using a pretty old Sony 1.2MP so the picture quality is far from superb. The coolness factor is pretty high though, and if for no better reason than not losing them I decided to post them here.

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I like coffee. In fact, I really like coffee. I drink coffee when I wake up, I drink it all day, and I even drink it before bed. Part of this mad addiction can be attributed to the fact that I don’t like going to sleep. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I love sleep, but between a business and a baby it’s more myth than reality. So I drink coffee, and lots of it.

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Wow, I’m slick. Somehow I managed to dump an entire mocha latte *into* my computer… it went through the top fan which then sprayed it around my case like a sprinkler system. In the few moments I was frozen in shock, a small puddle was forming on the video card and my monitor displayed what appeared to be a digital aneurysm. By some crazy stroke of luck, everything still works perfectly after shutting down and washing my video card with tap water.

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That’s right, everything is gone. I relocated and cleaned up everything on gabrielharper.com and the new blog and site are just getting set up. Hopefully I’ll find some time for the new design this week, but things are pretty busy.

Anyone who has ever registered a domain, named a product or business, or otherwise had to come up with a suitable, catchy name for something, knows how hard it can be to find a unique and catchy name.

Some names have almost nothing to do with the actual product or service they represent, and are just catchy. That’s fine, but I’m focusing on developing a name that inspires a specific image in a potential customers mind.

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