Some people go to the movies, some the beach.
Others like to spend their time off playing sport. John Nichols spent 200 hours over two years, including most Sunday afternoons, hanging out at Melbourne General Cemetery, vaulting wrought-iron fences, lifting fallen slabs and rubbing chalk on tombstones to make worn writing easier to see. Dodging spiders, drug addicts and Elvis impersonators. The transcriptions have been indexed and made into a searchable compact disc to help professional and amateur historians. Another group of volunteers later entered the data into a computer and again crosschecked it.