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Club­MINI Run 26 Feb­ru­ary 06

Wel­come a new Hodge fam­ily mem­ber: Scar­lett. She is a Chilli Red, White Roof MINI Cooper S, with fact­ory fit­ted John Cooper Works Tun­ing Kit. Sum­mar­ised, this means she goes very fast. Built for racing. 210 BHP or 154 kW or 0 to 100 Kmhr in 6.6 seconds.
Megan, the Brit­ish Racing Green MINI Cooper S, is still in the fam­ily — it is now Avril\‘s primary car. Yes, we are a two MINI fam­ily.
Avril and Liam took Scar­lett to her first MINI drive today: The Place to MINI 18 Feb­ru­ary 06. A she\‘s already a TV star hav­ing been on National TV: MINI2: Mini Parade on Chan­nel Ten new tonight.

Whomever keyed my MINI Cooper S — whilst it was parked behind my house — on all pan­els — you are a low life idiot. YOU SUCK! Oh well, a fresh coat of brit­ish racing green on Megan!

Alan Rosen­feld has moved to the UK to work as a Cre­at­ive Pro­fes­sional Evan­gel­ist for Adobe: and this is the car he pur­chased:

Another week­end, another MINI drive: Sydney MINI2 Meet 21 Septem­ber 03

Kurt Foss, Editor at Plan­et­PDF is a fel­low MINI owner and cult mem­ber. Yes, we are a cult! He’s presently in Aus­tralia and hired a MINI to drive the fam­ous Vic­torian Great Ocean Road. Go Kurt!

Speak­ing of MINI cults, Liam met another fel­low MINI lover, Catri­ona Rown­tree last night! And Steve from Typefi, developers of an InDesign-based book pub­lish­ing sys­tem, has a brother in the US who owns a MINI. This MINI stuff is a small world. And we are a grow­ing cult!

Saw The Italian Job (2002) along with a bunch of other MINI2 reg­u­lars. Pro­ceeds went to the Deb Bailey Found­a­tion. Pic­tures here: Sydney MINI2 Italian Job 11 August 03. Includ­ing Liam with Catriona!

Another pleas­ant Sunday drive in the MINI: Sydney MINI2 Meet 13 July 03 and video at MINI2 Video, 13^th July 2003

Even www.adobe.com gets a facelift after a couple of years.

Wow! we do some great soft­ware. In Adobe Pho­toshop Ele­ments 2.0 we added the abil­ity to cap­ture still frames from video foot­age files. Then using the Filter>Video>De-interlace, I could cre­ate half-decent still shots from mov­ing foot­age!
The res­ults are here at the bot­tom of Sydney MINI2 Meet 18 May 03

OK, I am very naughty. I have 42 days owing of PTO (hol­i­days, vaca­tion) which is 50% over the Adobe legal limit. Oops!

Andrew and Melody’s MINI Wed­ding 24 May 03. Another MINI week­end out­ing! Con­grat­u­la­tions to Andrew and Melody. It was such a hoot as a wed­ding driver. Espe­cially in a MINI.

Nick’s Old, Ori­ginal MINI. This is where my love affair with the MINI star­ted — in the late 1980s. Here are some pho­tos I found taken at the time as pub­li­city shots for the band I was in Stranger than Fic­tion. One day I will be brave enough to upload the music. It took enough cour­age just to upload the images you see here.