In 8 hours I fly to Aukland

Nothing else much going on here.

This is a really interesting artical, stolen from del.icio.us/heliomass

The TSB one turned out to be 2 cards on the same account, so I am now armed to the teeth.

On the assumption that one of them works — (is that a silly assumption?) I am now good to go.

I have started this blog ((weB LOG – diary that is on the internet)) so that I can successfully keep people up to date while I’m on holiday [for those of you not aware, I'm going on a 5 month round the world trip to America, New Zealand].

I was going to use LiveJournal but as some of you know already it has it’s problems for that sort of thing, so I decided to go all out and get a WordPress sit of my own.

Things aren’t perfect around here — the theme is a little off, and some f he stats gathering stuff still doesn’t work. The image displaying stuff is a little broken — it works, but doesn’t exactly display useful stuff. but as it is right now, It’s usable.

I would like to say that I am only going to post stuff here if I think that people are actually reading it. I will be measuring the interest by the number of comments, so if I don’t get at least some comments, the posts are going to slowly spread out to the point that it’s a waist of time.

For those viewing this on LJ (you know who you are) I’ve done a yoda, and will be continuing to crosspost using black magic.

For anyone interested, there is an email subscription system such that anyone can sign up their email address and have all new posts sent out to them automatically, to anyone who registers this accessible through their profile. If you just want an email update with no extras, see the box in the red bit. I recommend that people sign up as they can post comments though.

on a more serius note, I just relaised that my credit card expires while I’m in NZ — this is a pain as it won’t really be feesable to have my mail redirected there.

I called the bank and they told me that if they were to send another, that it would come with the same date on it. They told me that there was no way they could sort it. Only after I sugeted canceling the card and applying ofr a new one did they agree that there was actually a way to do it — screw that — I’d likelly end up with no card at all.

So I went into a branch, and I was — after a short conversation — told to go to the TSB round the corner.

The TSB’s competers were down, so after filling out a form I have given up hope that they are competent enough to get it right at all.

I have however applied for an MBNA card and within 12 hours I’ve been told that it’s been accepted (pending some further paperwork…)

The skin is a little off at the moment and needs work, but all in all, things are usable.

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