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

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ROI on MBA">ROI on MBA

In 1993 I star­ted on the road to a Mas­ters in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion. More com­monly known as an MBA.
Com­pleted in 2002, the MBA has given me a deeper under­stand­ing to the­or­ies driv­ing busi­ness. MBAs are designed to provide a broad under­stand­ing of how organ­isa­tions work. I found the most enlight­en­ing top­ics related to Legal stud­ies and […]

The sad irony

The day the Microsoft announces this, Red­Hat goes and does this.
Has the world turned upside down?
Good news and Bad news Chris. You are on the radar screen.

Waiting for the flickrPaparazzi

Thanks to those 8 people I don’t know who voted for me. +1 to my Mum!
Lach­lan, Ajay, Mar­tin, Rene and Russ should really be ahead of me. Oh, and where is Mark Pesce?

I To Do Therefore I Am?

Per­sonal organ­isa­tional skills. I can not has. They left me some time ago.
Microsoft has released some research on the gender dif­fer­ences of To Do lists.
About 70% of people have a To Do list.
20% of males keep their To Do list in their head.
Mine is a com­bin­a­tion of email (whatever is still in there needs to be done) and […]

Parents: where are your kids now?

Par­ents have this little internal GPS that sorta– kinda– knows where their chil­dren are in phys­ical space.
Why should it be dif­fer­ent with online?
The excuse that “com­puters are too hard” and “the kids are far ahead of me” just doesn’t wash any­more. This is like put­ting your kids on an unmarked bus to nowhere and hop­ing they […]

Lost in Microsoft

Up, to work. Park­ing easy as every­one is some­where else. Frank­arr on the internal TV sys­tem not doing LOLCATS. Speak­ing Shakespeare to pro­mote TechEd. Even when Frank­arr is not in the build­ing, his Hamlet-ian ghost haunts us.
On way to desk, speak to Jeffa about his two way cool posts: Win­dows Server 2008 and the new […]

Japan 2.0: No Shrines Needed in Hiroshima

Up at 6:00am to get ready for a long day. Osaka JR train to Osaka-shin. Catch the Shinkansen to Hiroshima via Shin-Kobe and other sta­tions that mix together. The Hodge’s almost broke the whole sys­tem by insert­ing our Suica cards into the wrong machines. Friendly JR staff kindly help us for gaijin out.
Just like […]

What is your Geek Shed Project?

Grow­ing up on a farm in coun­try South Aus­tralia, I remem­ber the smell of the work shed. The work shed is not where vehicles or anim­als were stored; it is where the weld­ing, banging, fix­ing, wir­ing and gen­eral repairs were made. The smells of oil, grease, pet­rol, arc weld­ing and sea­sons waf­ted out of the […]

Scoble on Write-only Marketing

Robert Scoble, now earn­ing a liv­ing deal­ing with PR people in the ‘val­ley, under­stands the dif­fi­culty of blog­ging from within large organ­isa­tions. Robert refers to one of the 4000-or-so blog­gers at Microsoft: David Weller.
The best way to learn about an organ­isa­tion, its plans and products is with a search engine. Mar­ket­ing and product teams are abso­lutely scared witless […]

Explaining to my Mum what I actually do

Hav­ing grown up on a farm, I saw what my Dad did every day. I saw it grow; and helped around. I learnt how to read clouds and the sky to determ­ine the weather, and what the time was without a watch. From memory, at about 12 years old pretty much any­thing that could be […]