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Nick Hodge is a professional geek and digital diplomat for Microsoft in Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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• Anna Liu - My boss’s blog on architectural things I don’t understand.
• Barbora Zychova - I am Number 2 in the Fan Club.
• Brian Johnson - US East Coast EE dude
• Christian Longstaff - Fellow Microsoft AU videographer
• Crowded House - Crowded House reforming
• Des Walsh - Doyen of the Australian Blogging Community
• Frank Arrigo - Frank Arrigo, Head Geek goes to America
• Geek Girl Blogs - The best geeks are girls
• I Work on the Web - If you work on the Web, join the meme
• John-Daniel Trask - JD is a cool geek guy from Wellington. Does cool stuff with all the Microsoft stuff.
• Jukka Wallasvaara - Finnish
• Kurt Messersmith - Because I am sports knowledge challenged, Kurt is my go-to-guy
• Live Spaces - Experimental Only. Duck.
• Mark Szulc - Adobe all-round expert and nice guy
• Me on YouTube - My channel on SueTube
• Michael Kordahi - Delicate Genius, both names apply
• Mossy Blog - Scott Barnes: webdev.guru
• Nas Khan - Third best NZ’er, WPF+Silverlight: Designer blog
• Nic Filingham - Fellow Aussie Enthusiast Evangelist, in Singapore
• Nick Hodge, Excel MVP - Mr Excel, not me. I am MINI me.
• Nick’s Flickr Photos - All public photos are posted on Flickr.com
• Paul Foster - Pommy Microsoft Geek with Robots!
• ScenarioGirl - The state of UX, Accessiblity
• Shane Morris - User Experience Guru
• Stilgherrian - Mr Nerd from crikey.com.au - but really he is a geek
• The Geek Stories - Nick Hodge’s blog on on10.net
• The Geek Whisperer - Ajay bonding geeks and noobs
• The Podcast Network - Cameron’s New Media Conglomerate
• Twitter - Follow me, almost minute-x-minute on Twitter

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Private Angus Hodge

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

As previously blogged, my ancestors hailed from the eastern shores of Fife, Scotland. Exactly where golf was invented.
Inspired by recent family events, I decided to revisit my June 2006 research and go further back. The previous searches had stopped at David Melville’s grandfather: John Hodge
Thanks to Scotland’s People, the official government source of births, deaths, [...]

Steve Jobs. Presenting EOF, PDO, WebObjects, Excel, Windows NT 3.5

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August 6th

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Meet David Melville Hodge. My Great-Great-Grandfather

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 [...]

First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.

From the ABC: “Rudd lays wreath for Hiroshima victims”

Mr Rudd is the first Australian prime minister to visit Hiroshima's Peace Park and Memorial.

How embarrassing for Australia. Why has no other Prime Minister visited Hiroshima? Incredulous.
On the other hand, I wonder if a Japanese Prime Minister will visit the Thailand-Burma Railway and apologize.
One day, maybe.

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Turing’s Cathedral

Excellent talk from George Dyson on the early stages of digital computing:

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6th June

Normandy, France.

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Ada Lovelace: Prophet of our Computer Age

As a great fan of Dr Melyn Bragg, BBC4 is publishing the podcasts of his history debating show In Our Time.
This week, he discusses Ada Lovelace; the prophet of the computer age we now live in.

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The Web That Wasn’t

Excellent video from the Google engEDU series.
A talk given by Alex Wright; excellent history of Information Theory: The Web That Wasn't, especially hyperlinking.
Spend an hour and listen. Good history. I am probably going to Amazon his book, Glut

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