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

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Another MINI Run

ClubMINI Run 26 February 06

Scarlett Comes out in Style

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 [...]

If you are the idiot

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!

alans new car

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

MINI Drive

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

MINI Lovers of the World Unite

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 [...]

MINI Drive

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

www.adobe.com facelift

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 [...]

MINI Wedding

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.

Original 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 [...]