My first 'proper' pint in nearly 2 years - http://twitpic.com/410ar # I've found a place that sells John Smiths Extra Smooth. All in the world is right again! # Stayed up to watch LFC. Shit game but it's the 3 points that count. # The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put … read more

At IKEA. Again. Had to hire a van to take some stuff back and swap it. # Having probs with XBMC Babylon for ATV. Reverting to Atlantis. # Pirate Bay founders jailed - http://bit.ly/r4niF. What does this mean for the future of torrent sites? # Watching a fantastic lightning storm # Only one more spot … read more

We seem to have moved next door to a laughing Hyena. # Sent Easter Sunday building furniture. Still not finished. Deep joy! # Just been advised it will be another 5-8 days before I'm back up on ADSL. Bloody useless! # Getting wireless backups and NAS working using my new Apple Airport Extreme # … read more

Those jammy Manc twats have done it again. Looks like it's gonna go right to the wire! # Flight to Sydney delayed. Bugger. At least I can get a phone signal at the airport. My new house seems to be in a comms black hole. # Having brekkie at IKEA before we buy some stuff for the new house # Moving … read more

What a wet, miserable morning. It's still not as grey as England though! # Earth Hour over. I dozed off. I can get back to negligently burning fossil fuels so there's none left for my future grandkids now. # About to switch off for Earth Hour. Candles at the ready... # Busy day packing ahead. Moving … read more

Watching Later with Jools Holland. Chuffed this is now being shown here. Great for discovering new music. Best accompanied with wine I find. # Waking up to fantastic overnight footie results for Liverpool # #qldelection09 over. Bligh has retained power. 5th term for the Labour party. # Definitely … read more

I'm back. Madness over. The reason I've been so busy over the past few months is because I'm responsible for maintaining ISO 27001 certification (Information Security quality management standard) for the company I work and we had our 3-year re-certification audit due. For the past year that I've … read more

Surrounded by mums and babies. Some of whom clearly need their nappies changing. The stench is spoiling the aroma of my coffee. # No work today in lieu of Friday. Having brekkie at the mall followed by a spot of shopping, then haircut, then back to work on IPChitChat. # Trying out dropbox for those … read more

Everyone's gone to bed. Sat here with my old friend Daniels, Jack Daniels. Listening to a bit of Seal. # Getting vigorously beat up by my daughter # Just sent out the agenda for tomorrow night's Brisbane Internet Business Meetup. Should be a good one, had 33 Yes RSVP's. # Was yesterday Pancake … read more

Just a quick note to say I'm up to my eyeballs in work at the moment so there's going to be a lack of activity on here until it calms down, which should be after the 13th March (busy preparing for an audit). I'm actually typing and publishing this blog post from my iPhone whilst on the bus, thanks … read more

Simply Red were great but the night ended badly. It was a bad idea taking the kids. And I lost my sunnies. Again. # Lots of couples dancing in the audience, it's that kind of night. I'd be up dancing with Rach if it wasn't my 10th bottle, # Oh yes. Classic songs sung perfectly. # It's all a blur … read more

@agent_x I can't really see much difference between the two (which makes me wonder why I paid for Tweetie)? in reply to agent_x # Starting another busy week. # Trying out Tweetie on the iPhone. It's past midnight so I suppose I should get my head down now. Night night! # Been working most of the … read more

Been swimming under waterfalls in the Glasshouse Mountains. Now having dinner before returning home. # Having a late breakfast then heading into the hinterland to swim under some waterfalls before heading home # A little bit sunburnt again. I thought I was being really careful as well. Had great fun … read more

Been doing web development all weekend. Determined to get expatsclick.com live sometime this decade! # Opened a bottle of wine and watching The Commitments with Rach - classic film! # ...and managed to get in a game of cricket with the kids. Still got a few things to do though and it's way past wine … read more

Swimming in the rain, very liberating! # It's pissing it down. So much for going to the beach. # Updating the blogging component on ipchitchat.co.uk # At my Internet business meetup group - and 2 Internet celebrities have shown up! # Designing a new risk methodology - my head is hurting! # Do I stay … read more

Nursing a serious hangover # @yarostarak Fring and Twitterific works well for me. in reply to yarostarak # Shitfaced on jim bean bourbon # Having a BBQ and a few wines at George and Julie's # Queensland offers "the best job in the world" - http://tinyurl.com/97w8wg # On my way back to Brissie # … read more

Pondering my goals for 2009. Should I aim high or be pragmatic? # Now have 66 members in my Brisbane Internet Business Meetup Group. Whoo-ooh! # Going to Cath's for scran # This week has been a struggle getting back into things # Going to watch Lauren's swimming lessons # Back to the gym # Moving my … read more

With a new year I thought it was time to give my blog a bit of a freshing up. So, I did something that I've been meaning to do for quite a while - I registered darylhaines.com, installed Wordpress on my hosting account and moved my blogger blog over here. I'm still tinkering around with the look of … read more

Rachelle's Mum and Dad arrived safely on Friday to join us for Xmas and new year. I think Mandy in particular was a little shocked about the heat and humidity. We did warn them about coming to Brisbane in Summer! On Sunday we all went to Rach's boat club for Sunday lunch and the kids Xmas party with … read more

On Saturday night we went to see Stevie Wonder in concert at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Being one of my all-time favourite artists, this was a rare treat, and he didn't disappoint. Both Stevie and his band were magnificent. There were a couple of small let downs. First, while he got through … read more