harshbutfair.org

December 27, 2001
I received the data cable for my phone on Monday. I'm happy with it, though it would have been nicer to receive it a few weeks earlier. We saw Lord of the Rings last night. I wasn't overly impressed. It was very long, and not particularly interesting. I assume it's better for people who have read the book, or for those who like fantasy movies. I've been shopping today, for shirts, shorts, and CDs. The only thing I didn't get was pants, the ones I liked were either overpriced or not available in my size. Bah! And tonight I saw Monsters, Inc which takes me to 52 movies for the year. Hooray!

December 21, 2001
My last day of work for the year, and a very enjoyable one as well. I got a decent bit of work done in the morning, we had cake at 10:30, photos at 11:30, went down to the Captain Stirling at 12:00, and stayed there for the rest of day. Mobile Extras still haven't delivered the data cable for my phone, it's been three weeks so far. I called them up and complained about it this morning. Blueskyfrog sent me SMS spam this evening. I was not pleased at all, and I wrote them a quick email letting them know all about my displeasure. They have also been added to the blacklist. I've updated the list of movies with last night's effort, and I've finally written something about Morris.

December 18, 2001
Added a couple of new CDs to the music page. I thought about putting up a DVDs page, and I even started writing it, but I didn't get very far before I was destracted by other things. Kuro5hin is back online, after an absence of almost a month. Hooray! And now I'm going to watch The Bill.

December 15, 2001
The work Christmas party was last night. Today I'm feeling munted. I find it a bit weird that people at work know about harshbutfair even though I didn't tell them. What's up with that? They are probably just crazy sickos who stumbled upon harshbutfair accidentally. So far we have 780 registrations for WALAN, which means there are only 20 places remaining. I've updated the movies page with this week's movie, bringing my total to 49 for the year. Must see three more. Added Mentos to the blacklist for being made in China. Added bits-o-pig to the hardware page.

December 10, 2001
We've started planning for the next WALAN, and with a capacity of 800 people it should be the biggest LAN ever held in Australia. I've been told that the links page looks really bad under Netscape. If Netscape wasn't so stupid in deciding how to render it, I might be able to work out how to fix it. I'll probably take another look later. There's an excellent interview with Scott Raynor at AbsolutePunk. Scott was Blink 182's drummer before they sold out. Finally, I've hacked up a network monitor called snm (pronounce it like S&M, it sounds better). Currently it just uses the output of arpwatch to determine what hosts to scan with nmap and then displays nice output in HTML. Maybe I'll add more features later.

December 7, 2001
I miss Kuro5hin a lot. I'm reading Slashdot more to try to compensate, but it isn't really working. I've added the new Life Without Buildings single to the music page, Harry Potter to the movies page, and I've finally remembered to add Austin Computers to the blacklist for crimes against humanity.