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

This weekend gone we went up to Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast for a couple of nights. Our neighbours, George and Julie, had already booked an apartment and encouraged us to do the same. Unfortunately, when we went to book they only had 1 apartment left, on the Ground Floor. It didn't sound too … 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

This week, the massive online job site Monster.com released a security notice that their database had been hacked, potentially releasing the personal details of millions of registered users. This isn't the first time this has happened, and I'm sure it won't be the last.Leave aside the fact that … 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

The use of Twitter seems to have taken off enormously over the past few months as people are realising how the tool can be used not only for messaging, but also for marketing and self-promotion. It's interesting to see all the celebrities that are now 'tweeting'. Some of them are obviously just … read more

Last night I held my January Brisbane Internet Business Meetup. Of the 82 members (as of today) I think only 14 turned up but that didn't detract from what was a really good night. In particular, our group was blessed by the presence of two genuine internet celebrities: Yaro Starak is a blogger who … 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

This week I've been to Newcastle, and I didn't spot a single Geordie! Actually, Newcastle in New South Wales does have some similarities with its namesake in north east England, and in some parts does look a lot like other areas on the north east coast of England. It particularly reminded me of … 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

There was only one real contender for my favourite film release of 2008, and that is... In Bruges was easily the most enjoyable film that I've seen since Last King of Scotland. The wordplay in particular between Colin Farrell's character - Ray, and Brendan Gleeson's character - Ken, represents a … read more

Xmas has been and gone for another year. I had a couple of weeks off work, along with Rach, so we were able to make the most of it and take her Mum and Dad for a spot of sightseeing. Rach’s Mum and Dad are leaving on Saturday and they seem to have had an enjoyable time, although Rachelle’s Mum has … 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