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

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Who Is Nick Hodge?

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Who Is Nick Hodge?
An inter­est­ing ques­tion, who am I? This is the ques­tion that we all must answer whilst we are on this small planet. It is right up there with “What is the mean­ing of life?” Maybe they are connected.

My LinkedIn Pro­file, and more formal resume: www.linkedin.com Pro­file: Nick Hodge
From a dur­a­tion on this planet perspective, […]

Watching the Language Wars

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Today, at least in the US, it is Programmer’s Day.
Maybe it should be called “Inter­na­tional Pro­gram­ming Lan­guage Peace Day”. The level of advocacy for vari­ous pro­gram­ming lan­guages reaches rhet­or­ical heights last seen dur­ing the one of the not-so-successful 18th cen­tury revolu­tions.
When not speak­ing to humans, other pro­gram­mers to read­ing the latest advocacy on their language […]

Too Rainy for the Beach: off to educationau.edu.au

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Spent yes­ter­day at the Education.au con­fer­ence “So What’s New”, I asked myself — so exactly what is new? I must admit to slight symp­toms of intel­lec­tual stock­holm syn­drome. Agree­ing with all points of view and res­ult­ing in a mush of thoughts, and no opin­ion.
Is Web2.0 new? Rel­at­ively. Is the Web new? Is TCP/IP new? Are […]

Mike Seyfang Logs Off

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

Chair­man Bill and CEO Steve have lost a valu­able mem­ber of staff in Uncle Mike. I have a dis­tinct feel­ing that product teams in Seattle will miss him more, if his­tory tells us any­thing. Nearly 9 years at Microsoft is an achieve­ment in these high velo­city career times.
Times like these trig­ger throughts and feelings […]