- View from my Hotel Room, TechEd 2010
- 2010: Voting for Liberals
- Day 2 Keynote, Pycon-au
- Absolute Power
- Shibuya, Photosynth
- You are being watched.
- Long Love Affair with Lego
- 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
2010: Voting for Liberals
Thursday, August 19th, 2010In a G’day world podcast I appeared on in 2007 I stated I was voting Liberal. It should come as no surprise I am doing the same in 2010 At the beginning of Tony Abbott’s reign as leader of the Federal Liberals, I will admit I was uncertain of his ability to be the Prime Minister […]
Day 2 Keynote, Pycon-au
Monday, July 5th, 2010My keynote at Pycon-AU. It is good to be back doing what I do best. Presenting deep technologies to technical audiences.
Absolute Power
Monday, May 31st, 2010From Richard Farmer’s “Chunky bits” in today’s crikey.com.au: I know that Lord Acton had papal infallibility in mind when writing to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887 but given the flaunting of their Christianity by our two alternative political leaders that perhaps just makes his words more appropriate: “I cannot accept your canon that we are […]
Long Love Affair with Lego
Sunday, April 4th, 2010In Toy Stories, James Maybuilt a life-size house out of Lego. It was awesome. On the DVD of the TV series, he skulks around the basement storage of Lego HQ where there is a box set of every box set Lego has ever made. He pops open 1973 and shows this London Bus set, which […]
NSW HSC">State of Software Design in NSW HSC
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Liam successfully completed his HSC in 2009, with one of his subjects being Software Design Looking over his results certificate, it seems that 1726 students sat the HSC Exam from 1759 enrolments. In other words, 2.5% of the NSW HSC population took this course. The curriculum for this subject area is reported to be weak. Maybe […]
Facial Update
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009It has been a long 3–4 weeks. From Doctor’s visits and other experts, this is most likely merely a viral infection in the facial nerves. You can only take anti-virals within the first 36–72 hours – a time long, long ago. So its has been “just live with it”. Research has shown me that re-occurance of […]
Why the Quietness?
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009It is rather strange for me to be quiet. Especially online and on this blog specifically. Twitter is partly to blame: it is where my creative mind finds an outlet. Another is a little more sinister. And I use the word sinister also meaning left-hand-side In April 2007 I talked on my experience of Bell’s […]
Random Neil Finn Lyric Server
Sunday, May 13th, 2007All Lyrics are Copyright their respective Copyright holders. Fast Start: To get an lyrics superimposed on image, use the following URL: http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.jpg For JSON, use the following URL: http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.json For SOAP, use the following URL to get the WSDL http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.wsdl Simple XML, use the following URL: http://nickhodge.com/finnwords.xml Background In 2002 I had a brainwave whilst driving to work. I […]
Moore’s Law and Compounding Interest
Sunday, December 24th, 2006In deploying the small Ruby on Rails application on an old Dell 8200 running Debian-sarge, I decided to see how the application would perform under load. Apache comes with a great little application meekly called ab. ab is a small command-line tool that slashdots your web application, and gives you a nice measure (in pages per […]
Frankinstall Tweaking Ruby Mongrels
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006What a fun few days! I reported earlier I was in the midst of Ruby on Rails. The small project is coming along fine. Even though I could quickly build in Python or PHP, its time to learn and immerse myself in a new language — and more importantly, a new platform. This platform is […]
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