April, 2007

I never realised before that “The Ode” that is recited during most ceremonies of remembrance is actually from a much larger poem called ["For The Fallen"](http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/customs/poems.htm#fallen) written by [Laurence Binyon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Binyon), an assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum.

The 4 lines that are commonly recited are as follows:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

The [Australian War Memorial](http://www.awm.gov.au/) website has a heap of interesting information.

The comment link for each post is now AFTER the actual post.
That is all.

My Melanie is so cool! She got me a subscription to [New Scientist!](http://www.newscientist.com/) I blogged recently about buying a few magazines to read while travelling and enjoying them. They have some really interesting articles in them that I find enjoyable to read.

Anyway, apparently at the moment they have a deal going where you get a discount on the subscription and also get a free bag! Melanie, as thoughtful as she is, went ahead and subscribed me. It was a nice surprise to get an email telling me my New Scientist subscription had started and I could access all the ‘member only’ stuff on the website. I had no idea what was going on, I actually thought it was some kind of mistake except for the fact that the password was something I would have chosen

I have been reading the [RSS feeds](http://www.newscientist.com/feeds.ns;jsessionid=GBAGLLH) and also visiting the site regularly to read the huge amount of articles. My first printed copy came in the mail yesterday and apparently my bag is on the way.

My Melanie is so thoughtful!

Working at the video conferencing section of the uni. It’s a lot of fun and really interesting. I spend the majority of my time working on php scripts to automate a lot of the manual processes that are used. The plan is to greatly reduce the amount of time needed to be spent doing mundane repetitive jobs. The jobs will still get done, but the process for doing them will be shortened.

I can really see a lot of ways to make things easier and I’m excited about being able to jump right in and go for it.

I’ll probably post more about work and stuff later, possibly even adding a new category, but I’ll get to that. (All my categories need a BIG cleanup).

NOTE: This should be back dated, but I’ve got no idea around what dates this happened. Oh well.

Who would have thought that safety deposit boxes would be so illogical. Melanie wanted to get a safety deposit box in order to keep some documents safe. Things like birth certificates and what not. Anyway, we go to the national to see about them because apparently you need to have an account at a bank before they will even offer you the possibility of getting a safety deposit box.

So we go in, and get served by probably the worst possible person to ask about safety deposit boxes. This became apparent when she laughed and told us that she had never done a safety deposit application before and was thinking about getting one for herself.

She fumbled her way through the application form, walking off every so often to ask someone else at the bank what a certain step meant or what to do next. After filling out the necessary forms, she tells us we can either have a safety deposit slip or a box. If we chose a box we would have to provide the actual box but for the slip the bank would provide it.

We chose slip, cause all Melanie had to put in it was some pieces of paper. The lady walks off and comes back with a slip designed to hold a folded up piece of paper. We ask if we could get a flat A4 / letter size slip and got told that they don’t have them. The folded paper size slip is the ’standard’ size.

Is it just me or does this strike anyone else as odd? Why would people want a safety deposit slip for some pieces of paper and then want to fold the pieces of paper. Wouldn’t it seem logical that the paper they want to put away in a safety deposit box is likely something they don’t actually want bend / folded?

In the end we told the lady not to worry about it as we didn’t want to have to fold any pieces of paper we wanted to put away. We left the bank and came home where I rang some other banks and found out it was the same at all of them.

Wouldn’t an A4 size safety deposit slip make a heck of a lot more sense?

So I’ve moved web hosts. It somewhat explains the total lack of posts on here (me being lazy might also have something to do with it).

Anyway, this is just a test.

More to come.