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

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newzealand

In Like Mike

Uncle Mike talked about this last week: why you tag your pho­tos (cc) and geotag your pho­tos.
Unlike other large cor­por­a­tions who have mis-used (cc) licensed pho­tos, Schmap cor­rectly asked and obtained per­mis­sion to use one of my pho­tos on their site:

Schmap Christ­ch­urch Third Edi­tion: Photo Inclu­sion
Hi Nick,
I am delighted to let you know that your two […]

Kings of an Older Generation

Paul Brick­hill, ori­ginal Aus­tralian author of The Dam Busters may be turn­ing in his grave. The mas­ter of fakery is now in charge of re-kindling the memor­ies of the bravest men who never had the chance to pass on their bravery to younger gen­er­a­tions.
The dir­ector of the longest movies I am thank­ful I’ve never seen: […]

nick meets snow

Nick meets snow Christ­ch­urch II (5th June to 8th June).

second round done

12,000kms of travel in the last three weeks. Stuffed. Inter­est­ing last two days: Wel­ling­ton and Christ­ch­urch (21st April and 22nd April)

New Zealand Pilgrimages

Tak­ing more Adobe people on a pil­grim­age to the west-coast shores out­side of Auck­land: Mark Szulc, Paul Steph­ens and Nick Hodge in New Zea­l­and. Pre­vi­ous trav­el­lers: Rus­sell Brown and Nick Hodge in New Zea­l­and and Tim Cole, Jane Brady and Nick Hodge in New Zealand

Piha

Arrived in the US. Again. Man­aged to take a side trip on the way to Auck­land air­port to the pret­ti­est place in the world: Piha, June 2003. This scenery is less than 1 hour away from Auck­land Inter­na­tional Airport.

NZ Jet Planes">NZ Jet Planes

I am in NZ, and have stocked up on Pas­call Jet Planes. Hmmm.

Moby on Piha

Moby likes Piha and Karekare, too. Check out his journal, in the first of the NZ entries.

Jet planes in New Zealand

Just ran out of Pas­call Jet Planes. Last trip to New Zea­l­and I pur­chased 7 packs. Time to go the expat-order route