- Experimenting with visitmix.com lab’s Gestalt
- Saint Shenanigans
- Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.
- State of Software Design in NSW HSC
- It is not the Apple Tablet, it is the Store
- Facial Update
- Why the Quietness?
- What does Transparency mean to me?
- The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
- #auteched week begin
- Twenty Years Ago Today
- Where is Nick?
- Sanity Prevails
- 28 Weeks. 18 Weeks Down
- New Windows Home Server
- Japan Photo
- Microsoft and Web 2.0 Stuff
- Bing Box on your Website or Blog
- New.CloudApp();
- Fifth Barcamp Sydney, Saturday June 27th
2008 in Review
By Nick Hodge | December 31, 2008
Inspired by the Delicate Genius’ Year in Review 2008
Firstly, what did I say last year
from Personal and Professional Resolutions for 2008
- The home matters
- Weigh Less than 2008 FAIL! no change
- Geeks Who Care matters presented at various Senior Citizen groups
- Think simple, be social
I have really only succeeded on #1 #3 and #4. On the home front, I spent many more days not travelling and working from home.
Thinking simple, being social: fail, I think. Whilst I added 1000 twitter followers; mainly from Australia – this whole area needs more work on my part. I think.
So, what did happen in 2008? I’d like to say the theme of 2008 was black and white. No grey. Pure Black and White (yes, Neil Finn always says it best)
Other forward thinking posts:
Two posts from early 2008 have returned with a vengeance: And this early 2008 post (oh the irony): Our Benevolent Federal Government should Filter More and Australia is going to be stupider in 2008. I think I called these two issues correctly!
2008 was characterised by:
- Our family lost my Nana, Edna Dutschke.
- Other significant people from my past have also gone
- Avril and Liam went to Melbourne a few times.
- Avril totally hotted up Megan: she is almost as powerful as Scarlett. And sounds throatier.
- Avril organised and has nearly completed some needed home renovations for the kitchen and bathroom.
- The whole Hodge family becomes famous in the Sydney Morning Herald
- I have found out more about the paternal side of my family; going back over 300 years.
- Apart from what has been diagnosed as gout, been pretty functional. Oh, and I had a cyst out.
- The Geek Stories: completed 40 videos and put into hiatus for second half of 2008
- The best story from 2008: Email to the Future, where I saw original Lady Ada Lovelace documents!
- Australian ReMIX 2008: Mark Pesce, Only Connect: Mark introduces the hyperconnected world
- Designed and Built my Dream Machine, General Melchett: with three intense on10.net postings of which I am quite proud
- A postive, mid 2008 change in direction for me at Microsoft
- Spent 10 days in the US where the AU-US exchange rate was almost parity!
- Ray Ozzie: by Steven Levy: I saw Microsoft’s cloud future exposed, first hand.
- Start blogging code on http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/ my first “code” post whilst at Microsoft is PHP.
- Working more with Jorkeo. He’s the hosting god.
- Oh, met and introduced Jorke to his personal hero: Larry Wall
- F#/IronPython/Threads post. My personal msdn favourite post
- Microsoft’s TechEd 2008: more behind-the-scenes organising: Women in IT, Blogger’s Lunch, Live Framework (thanks for the help, Paul!)
- Presented at AIMIA, AIBC, BarcampSydney 3 and 4, attended BarcampMelbourne (with a last minute sneaky LOLCODE presentation)
- More presentations at Edge of the Web, Open Source Developer Conference: Demos, demos, demos. No slideware!
- Adding in Presentations at various user groups, presented to about ~1600 people
- Learnt a new language (F#) enough to present at user groups and BarcampSydney 4. Thanks to SecretGeek and Joel Pobar for the prompting.
- Invested some time on the Proposed Australian Filters. I still don’t think that the proposed filters will work, and the Government is missing the point of educating all Australians over internet security.
- The Great Dan Fernandez invited me onto his weekly show “This Week on Channel 9” Apart from a good couple of hours of fun, he made me famous for 30 minutes. nearly 60,000 views of this video, alone.
- Some radio PR: on Microsoft Worldwide Telescope
- Our Windows Home Server just keeps on working. We share many more files now that the Tranquil is here. Storage capacity is 2.75 terabytes; but knowing the PCs and Laptops in the house are backed-up is priceless.
- Met Matt Bai, and assisted the Microsoft team behind-the-scenes.
- The Thing that is Twitter: 1500 followers, 8000 tweets during the year. 1000 twitter friends added.
- Over all the content I produce: over 600,000 views. Which is a darn lot for a single content producer.
- Guest blogged over at http://gizmodo.com.au for a month (June)
- Started to come over all Microformatty at the end of the year.
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