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

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history

Long Love Affair with Lego

In 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 […]

Saint Shenanigans

I was born a Prot­est­ant. I will more than likely die one, too. Intense excav­a­tion into fam­ily his­tory has shown me that my genes are Prot­est­ant for at least 8 gen­er­a­tions on both sides. Bap­tised and con­firmed a Lutheran, I was taught a thing or two about the most suc­cess­ful (not the first) split from […]

atNickHodge Episode 11: @zuzu Punk Rock Changed My Life

An excel­lent ROCKING PUNK ROCK show with Susan Mac­Gil­li­v­ray (@zuzu on twit­ter) A fur­ther piece of home­work for you all is this 1991 doc­u­ment­ary. Also this Bob Rock inter­view about Van­couver Punk Scene. OK, I stuffed up the most import­ant thing at the begin­ning - audio (embar­rass­ing as @fang and I had dis­cussed this earlier in the day); […]

atNickHodge Episode 9: The Australian Constitution: with Peter Black, QuT

  Thanks to Deks and Peter Black for an edu­ca­tional show. Rough Pro­duc­tion notes from this show: OHAI, TEH INTERWEBS. Wel­come to #atNick­Hodge, “Aus­tralian Con­sti­tu­tion. Yes, We have one“ Meta-backchannel Pro­du­cer is Dekrazee1: thanks! dir­ect Qs to her in the chat, and we’ll get ‘em sent to us via the meta Backchan­nel Kit­tehs: new agent, now […]

atNickHodge Episode 8: The Lost Uncles

Review­ing the Show Too many umms and errs again. Got to remem­ber to shut up when think­ing. Silence for sub-seconds are ok. Could blame the slack­ness on my neck being out caus­ing vague­ness. More mod­u­la­tion in emo­tion when speak­ing Tim­ing worked well. Missed the mid-point video due to time restric­tions. Ten minutes before the show began, […]

atNickHodge 23rd April, “The Lost Uncles”

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 […]

IM IN UR INDUSTREE. DEAL”">#undercam “IM IN UR INDUSTREE. DEAL”

March 24th is inter­na­tional “Count­ess Ada Lovelace” day. In light of this spe­cial world-wide event, I have a spe­cial in-studio guest: the smart industry icon (and a female) Kate Car­ruth­ers Broad­cast­ing at 8:30pm AEST, Tues­day 24th March 2009. There will be themed music on the stream from 7:30pm to get into the mood. Keep this link […]

understil Episode 3, “Back to the Future of Self-Immolation in the #gfc”

Thanks to all who watched this epis­ode. Just like Stilgher­rian Live in its alpha broad­casts, I am start­ing to get some cent­ral themes and sec­tions for the show sor­ted out. Largely ignor­ing the chat this time was easy thanks to the won­der­ful @dekrazee1; the meta-backchannel pro­du­cer. Her role was to watch the chat, and for­ward on […]

My First Mac (and a Cat)

Cel­eb­rat­ing 25 years of Mac own­er­ship. And yes, there is a cat sleep­ing on the mouse mat. The cat was named Bindi. The Mac is a 128K Macin­tosh, pur­chased Feb­ru­ary 1984. Notice the two 3.5” floppy disk boxes on the left hand side. The inside case was signed by the team that designed the Mac. […]

Practical Coding

Recently, in a meet­ing, someone stated that I had never been a pro­fes­sional pro­gram­mer. At the time I agreed, how­ever after some think­ing (aka: L’esprit_de_l’escalier) dis­agreed with that asses­ment. So, time to write some of the pro­jects I have com­pleted dur­ing many years in this industry. To note: many of these sys­tems las­ted months through […]