Looking down my blog at previous blog posts I've noticed that some of the images are no longer showing. I've done some investigation and this seems to be a problem caused by iPhoto. I use iPhoto on my Mac to store and manage all my photo's, and then publish them to Flickr using the built-in features … read more

As is customary this time of year, here's a list of some of my favourites films from 2010. There's no doubt going to be other great films that came out in 2010 which aren't listed here simply because I haven't seen them yet, but these are the ones I have seen and enjoyed the most: 1. The Social … read more

I feel sorry for the ship's company of HMS Illustrious. They're shortly going to be feeling very embarrassed to be serving on an aircraft carrier that doesn't have any, err, aircraft. I remember my time fondly on HMS Invincible, the now decommissioned sister ship to HMS Illustrious, but I also … read more

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to get an overseas work trip to carry out a PCI DSS audit of a client and their service provider in the US. My trip took in LA and Omaha, Nebraska of all places. I travelled with Brad again from the client's security team. The trip started on a high note. We were … read more

Last week I was lucky enough to go off on another overseas jolly (err, I mean arduous work trip). This time to Auckland, New Zealand. I've never been to NZ before so I was quite looking forward to this one, even if it is the middle of winter and I new it would be freezing. We left on Wednesday and … read more

I've recently returned from a short work trip that took in Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This was the PCI DSS auditing keeping me busy again. I travelled with Brad from my customer's security team who I went to Manila and India with. He's from Melbourne so he was quite happy to use the … read more

It's decision time. Millions of voters are now heading to the polls in the UK to cast their vote. Many of us expats have probably missed out on voting because the postal vote system doesn't allow enough time to register and then get our vote off from the other side of the world. It's been an … read more

It's now been just over a month since we moved into our new house, so yes, since the last post things did work out ok in the end. We managed to get the house in Alexandra Hills that we liked. Apparently there were 6 other applicants so we did quite well to get it. The effort we made to put in the … read more

We're moving out of our house on Thursday. The only problem is we haven't yet got a home to move to. Things were great with our current house to begin with. We're a short walk away from a park and our house backed on to woods so we could wake up to the sound of Kookaburras in the morning. Then a few … read more

There's been lots of reports in the news in the last couple of years of how UK police are using section 44 of the Terrorism Act to stop peaceful protests and anything else they don't like. The video below is a great example of how to deal with overzealous police. The bottom line is KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! … read more

We're getting closer to General Election time again in the UK and as I'm still a British citizen and eligible to vote, my interest in British politics remains. Don't ask me why, I just can't seem to switch it off. With Twitter, Google Reader and iphone apps providing an ever constant news feed, … read more

I've recently returned from a work trip which included my first ever visits to the Philippines and India. The purpose of the trip was to carry out a PCI DSS audit for one of my clients. As is the way these days my client has outsourced their call centre to a company in Manila, and have also … read more

A couple of weeks ago I went on an Adventure Sailing Day courtesy of a gift experience that Rach bought me for my birthday. The Yacht I went on, which is called Solo, has quite a spectacular history. It has won the Sydney to Hobart race four times and circumnavigated the world 3 times. Also, it was … read more

We've recently returned from a memorable week on the Fraser Coast which included Whale Watching, a day on the world heritage listed Fraser Island and a trip to historic Maryborough. Whale Watching The highlight of the week was definitely our trip out into Hervey Bay itself to see the Humpback … read more

I've never seen anything like it. This was the view from our house this afternoon as the largest dust storm in decades descended upon Brisbane and a large part of the east coast of Australia. Apparently it has been caused by gale force winds in central Australia kicking up tonnes of red dust from … read more

Continuing with the wedding planning, on the 13th April we went away for the weekend (well, just one night actually) as we had a decision to make. After setting the date we wanted to get the invites out in the post as soon as possible so we could give friends and family in the UK plenty of notice. … read more

It has been quite a while since my last post, mainly due to a combination of taking on too much work and being distracted with other things. I'm going to add a few different posts over the next couple of days covering things we've been up to since my last post, rather than combining it all into this … read more

Bad idea to go out for an Indian last night. Delhi belly this morning. Stay clear of me on the train! # It was a bad idea bringing Rach into the city. Too many bridal shops! # Whoever is trying to hack into my Twitter account you're wasting your time. # Playing 'spot the weirdo' on … read more

RT @ev: This is interesting: @change_for_iran # Now on our way to Montville Treehouses in the Glasshouse Mountains. Staying for 1 night to check it out #weddingplanning # On our way to Mooloolaba to check out the river cruises #weddingplanning # Finally opening a bottle of wine and sitting down to a … read more

Finally - Kazakhstan v England World Cup qualifier being shown on ESPN here in Aus tonight. # Happy birthday Queensland - 150 today.. http://tinyurl.com/o9pcj3 # Chaser's WoE suspended for 2 weeks due to http://bit.ly/4SR2c. What's the world coming to. If you don't like satire just don't watch it! # … read more