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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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TechEd 2008, Blogger’s Lunch Thursday 4th September

“Discussion: Are Social Networks the New User Groups?”
An ever popular feature of Tech Ed is the Blogger’s Lunch and this year should be no exception. Hosted by Roger Lawrence, Evangelism Manager at Microsoft Australia, this years Blogger’s Lunch will debate the proposition that Social Networks are the new User Groups. Make sure you add the [...]

Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8

Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Melbourne (Premier of Victoria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.
What about this website?
Not so good. Something is broken somewhere. In the week before TechEd 2008 I don’t have time to [...]

Hello Photosynth, Love from Australia.

I live only 5 minutes away from the most awesome vista in the world: the Sydney Harbour.
Now you can experience the Harbour on a not-so-sunny day (that is, this morning) thanks to Microsoft Photosynth (note: Mac users: we’re working on it. In the current term, you will need to Bootcamp to see Photosynths. The VMWare [...]

Dan Fernandez makes me Famous

This Week on C9: ASP.NET Maps, Apache, Sphere, Warcraft, and more

Dan Fernandez invited me to the super-secret building 20 monaco studios for the weekly show “This Week on Channel 9”

LOLCATS, Anguslogan and other topics of discussion. Fueled thanks to copious amounts of caffeine and some random birthday cake.
Big [...]

This is Not Your Father’s Microsoft

A day after the Apache Foundation OSCON announcement, Sam Ramji presented to us Microsoft-ees in Seattle.
PHP, ADONET etc. The world is a different place. All a part of Microsoft realizing that Open source is not going to go away, and the means of engagement is working with the community: not against it.
Phew.
I’ve landed at [...]

Wireless Live Streaming

At yesterday’s Matt Bai; Politics and Technology Forum in Canberra, I experimented. Without testing, nor a safety net.
Having just received a new imate Ultimate 9502 phone with NextG HSDPA from @JonoH I wired up in the following way:

Dell XPS1330, using Bluetooth Personal Area Connection from within Vista SP1 x64 to…
imate Ultimate 9502, using [...]

Vista Hub on Gizmodo.com.au

Microsoft and Gizmodo.com.au/Lifehacker.com.au have created a collection of smart tips and tricks on Windows Vista.
The local Microsoft team asked me to contribute some articles. Writing with an editor with deadlines is tough! Thanks to Nick Broughall for his patience and assistance.

My articles:

Silverlight Redefines Video On The Web
Watching One Minute of Online Video Equal To Reading [...]

You watch a video, Microsoft donates to Smith Family

Simple really. Go to this site: http://www.microsoft.com.au/charity/charity/demo.aspx
Watch the video, and Microsoft donates money to the Smith Family.

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Live Mesh

Nic Fillingham, Aussie in Seattle for on10.net, goes Hands on with Live Mesh
Jon Udell interviews Ray Ozzie.
(more videos on the team blog, here)
This has to be the technology of 2008. Live Mesh.
I’ve installed it on General Melchett (home), Captain Darling (work craptop) and little PrinceEdmund (EEE PC) – and the ability to share files “in [...]

NSW Internship 2009 Information Night

Are you a final year Medical Student looking towards an Internship with the NSW Health System in 2009? Then come along on the 22nd May and get the information that you're looking for!

Thanks to Nicholas Rayner for getting Microsoft involved in this info night.

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