About Me

microformats hcard approaching

is a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

-33.831416, 151.222526
MrCell+61.417.212181
Work:
1 Epping Road
North Ryde, NSW 2113
Australia
photo of nick hodge

Stuff

View Nick Hodge's profile on LinkedIn

msdn channel 9

family

« Previous Entries

Twenty Years Ago Today

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

 
Twenty years ago today, Avril and I were mar­ried. And we still are hap­pily mar­ried. BTW: didn’t Avril look totally beautiful here?

atNickHodge 23rd April, “The Lost Uncles”

Monday, April 20th, 2009

All Hail the New Show Name: atNick­Hodge.
Com­ments in the chat stream from Thursday 18th’s #under­stil 7 (Conked Out and Stoked) ended with a sug­ges­tion from @LafinBoy to change the name of the show. Not because Stilgher­rian Live! nor being his under­study is a bad thing: just it is just time to gradu­ate. Up the ante. […]

My Relative from 18th Century: George Hodge

Friday, December 26th, 2008

This is page 2 of a con­tract between Charles and Robert Fall of Dun­bar, Scot­land and the fish­er­men of Crail, Fife, Scot­land.
Charles and Robert Fall held many interests in Dun­bar in the 18th Cen­tury. They also had fam­ily con­nec­tions in Fife. In an agree­ment signed by them on the 9th Novem­ber 1745, the fish­er­men of […]

Hoge’s of Duns, Scotland. Near Blackadder

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

It is pos­sible that my paternal ancestor, some 11 gen­er­a­tions ago, was born in Duns. Very close to Black­ad­der. Maybe not the same Black­ad­der, but inter­est­ing in a his­tor­ical sense.
Epic laughs.

Private Angus Hodge

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

In the recent research of my paternal fam­ily his­tory, I found ref­er­ence to David Melville Hodge sign­ing the papers for an Angus Hodge. These papers were per­mis­sion given by David for Angus to join the Aus­tralian Infantry in 1916 for ser­vice abroad. He was only 18 years and 2 months old.
Private Angus Hodge was my […]

Hodge Family History Update

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

As pre­vi­ously blogged, my ancest­ors hailed from the east­ern shores of Fife, Scot­land. Exactly where golf was inven­ted.
NB: this page will be updated as more info is found. Dots will join back to here
Inspired by recent fam­ily events, I decided to revisit my June 2006 research and go fur­ther back. The pre­vi­ous searches had stopped at […]

Meet David Melville Hodge. My Great-Great-Grandfather

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

After pub­lish­ing details on my fam­ily his­tory two years ago: the con­nec­tions con­tinue to increase.
Firstly, a con­nec­tion to my Great-Great-Great Grand­mother, Mary Milne was made in Octo­ber 2007. Mary Milne is David Melville Hodge’s mother.
Now, a rel­at­ive in South Aus­tralia for­war­ded me this pic­ture of my Great– Great– Grand­father: Mr David Melville Hodge.
More inter­est­ingly, a […]

Meet Mary Milne, my Great– Great– Great– Grandmother

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Why blog your fam­ily his­tory? Because it helps oth­ers out, and you find out more. Oth­ers doing searches for com­mon ancest­ors will stumble on your site, and send emails.
The above photo is of one Mary Milne. She mar­ried a Melville Hodge in 1853 whilst on her way to South Aus­tralia. Her first son was my […]

In a week of surreality

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

In a week of sur­real­ity, I learnt I am a MINI-me to a Nick Hodge in the UK and atten­ded Ying Tong.
An email from my mother-in-law, who emig­rated to Aus­tralia in the mid 1950s, con­nec­ted more dots. And some fam­ily skel­et­ons in the closet fell out.
Before jump­ing aboard the ship to Aus­tralia, she worked at the […]

In the Digital Generation Gap

Monday, February 19th, 2007

If you are not a par­ent or teacher with chil­dren between the ages of 5–15, you might want to read some­thing else. I know how it gets when people talk about kids.
If you are a teacher or par­ent, wel­come to the new inter­net gen­er­a­tion gap.
An art­icle pub­lished in the New York magazine, Say Everything, details the […]

« Previous Entries