Living On A Boat In Phuket Thailand

I am currently in Phuket Thailand living on a boat for a few weeks.  This is my first time to spend any time on a boat.  I once stayed on a luxury yacht for a night for a party but we did not leave the peer.  The boat I am currently staying on is anchored 1.5 Klm off shore and tomorrow we will be off island hopping.  The boat is called ladyandaman which is a play on the fact that is based on the Andaman sea.  I am enjoying living on a boat but not sure I want to do so for any extended length of time.  There are still a lot of adjustments to make despite the fact that this is a luxury boat with many other vessels.  It’s is actually setup as a party boat.  You can visit the website here   Ladyandaman Party Boat

Back In The Philippines

I am back in the Philippines right now staying in Makati.  Been doing some Island hopping and just got back from Mindanao and Cebu. I am a permanent resident of the Philippines and went to immigration to report while in Mindanao which you are meant to do every year in January only to discover that my Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR) had expired in January.  I was still able to complete the reporting and my status is fine but I was told I could only renew the card in Cebu or Manila so later this week I will renew it at the main immigration office in Manila.  I can not do it today or tomorrow as they are public holidays. 

Return to the Philippines

I was recently returned to the Philippines and spent some time in Mindanao and Cebu. Nice to catch up with family and friends. I am heading up to Makati in Manila soon where I still have an apartment but planing to close that early next month before heading to Thailand for a birthday party of a friend.

Singapore may be my new home base

I am giving some serious consideration about making Singapore my home base.  I used to prefer Hong Kong and consider Singapore a city without a Soul.  It always seemed too sterile to me but after a few trips their recently I have changed my mind.  I had to admit that the food is a huge draw card for me. It has everything. The public transport system is brilliant and the infrastructure is awesome.
It is more expensive to live than many other locations close by but it is also so central to everything.  

Cyber Stalker Alert

I have created a new blogger site called Cyber Stalker Alert.  Just updated it with the announcement of a new Cyber Stalker Help site created by Elizabeth Clarke.  Check them out and especially give Elizabeth all the support you can

Protect Your Business Online

When I first conceived the interentSOS project I secured a number of domains that I intended to use to promote the service. I have extensive experience in business from SOHO to corporate providing technical support which included security.  While working at Pilkington ACI I developed the national security policy for personal computers which were a new arrival and had spread through out the organization without any direction or control from the IT department. 

Through my Computer Trouble Shooters consultancy network I came into contact with many SOHO businesses and much of my work revolved around ensuring their systems and data were secure.  This was when the greatest fear came from viruses. I moved back into corporate environments working in highly secure environments including the Victorian Police where I administered and supported services. As you can imagine security was always a big concern.

One of the domains that I secured is http://protectyourbusinessonline.com/ and only I finally got around to publishing content on the site a few days ago.  I envisage a book targeted at small to medium size business on computer security.  The types of topics that the book will cover are there in on the site now.  The book will go hand in hand with the internetSOS service.   I am already developing business packages for internetSOS.  I know the advice to business I will provide is extremely valuable.

InternetSOS content

I am working on content for internetSOS now.  My good friend Perry Gamsby was meant to do a fair amount to the research and writing but through experience we have determined that its better that I write the content and give it to him to proof read and clean up. Much of the content requires a highly technical understanding of the internet, computers and IT security which Perry currently does not have. It is much easier for me to write it as I already have a very good idea what information needs to be included and with some minimal research to verify facts and collect some supporting stuff like statistics I can produce it much faster.  

My method is to use a white board to first mind map the content.  For those not familiar with mind mapping it’s a great way to get ideas down.  In the old days they used to talk about brain storming where you would just write down a list of ideas.   Mind mapping is so much better because it lets you group and link ideas.  It is far more natural and according to its proponents much more like the human mind works.  Once I have it all down I will sit and stare at time for a while and compose in my mind the structure for the content.  After that writing it is fairly easy.  I am also converting my christopherbennetts.info site into a Security Blog and write about security there.