About

Who Is Nick Hodge?

An interesting question, who am I? This is the question that we all must answer whilst we are breathing. It is right up there with "What is the meaning of life?"

[2023] Nick in London

My LinkedIn Profile, and more formal resume: www.linkedin.com Profile: Nick Hodge

From a duration on this planet perspective, I am 40-plus-ish. Location, Sydney. The family travels, and I travel for work - so there are pictures and stories from all around the world here.

From a personal accomplishment perspective, I am married to Avril and have one son, Liam.

We also two MINI Cooper S's; one named Megan and the other Scarlett. Yes, the have names. It assists when we talk about them

Looking at the method of affording shelter and food, as the hunter of the family, I am presently employed as a Professional Geek at Microsoft in Sydney, Australia.

This web site, mungenet, has been online since 1996. It predates the current hype/craze of "weblogs/blogs/blogosphere". Historical views of mungenet on www.nickhodge.com and mungenet on webstuff.apple.com. Apart from the design coming a long way; technologies have too.

My personal likes are books (history, specifically military history); music (except R& B Band Jazz) -- especially music of the 1980's; the UK TV show The Bill, Simpsons, and anything by Neil Finn.

Our family has two Korats (Lucy and Mee Noi (Our Korats)). They are pure bred Thai cats, known as Si Sawat in Thailand. One is named Lucy and the other Mee Noi.

As stated, travel has been a part of my work, and thankfully something the whole family enjoy (70 Days, 7 Countries and Journeys in 2005) so I get to New Zealand and major cities in Australia regularily. Being a part of the wider Asia-Pacific, other locations such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo also pop up from time to time.

I must admit, cutting code is basketweaving for the mind - it clears the head and you re-learn to think logically. The mungenetengine is written in PHP and is greater than 2000 lines long. It feels good to have code you have written in production day in, day out. Knowing that it has successfully worked over 1.5 million times is cool.