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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, […]

Hodge Family History

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Hodge Fam­ily His­tory Research
As I gather data, I’ll throw it here. It will also appear in search engines — and we’ll see what link­ages and com­ments appear from all and sun­dry!
This data shows that Liam is a 6th gen­er­a­tion Aus­tralian, on his father’s side, and has roots into the Lutheran-German com­munity now in South Australia. […]

Languages I Have Known

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Explor­a­tion of a dif­fer­ent kind of multi-lingualism
At school, I spent 3 years study­ing Ger­man. Sorry Herr Niemann, but all I remem­ber are the cof­fee and cake ses­sions, and I can now under­stand parts of Ger­man speech. I’d prob­ably still get lost in Ger­many. In an effort to expand the brain a little, in 1990 Avril […]

CS and InDesign CS2.">A surprise in InDesign 2.0, InDesign CS and InDesign CS2.

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

Wow, again!
InDes­ign CS2:

Thanks to the product man­age­ment team, I made it for the third time run­ning. You’ll find my name in the InDes­ign CS2 about box, too. Way cool. An honour. Again

InDes­ign CS:

Some­times, its the little things…

A goal of mine whilst work­ing at Adobe has been to get my name in […]

InDesign 2.0: Photoshop, Duotones into InDesign

Monday, October 4th, 2004

Visit the new InDes­ign Prepress Sec­tion: Adobe InDes­ign: Prepress Techniques

Duo­tones: Pho­toshop to InDesign

What are duo­tones? From the Pho­toshop 7.0 Online help file:
Duo­tones are used to increase the tonal range of a gray­scale image. Although a gray­scale repro­duc­tion can dis­play up to 256 levels of gray, a print­ing press can repro­duce only about 50 levels of […]

InDesign Prepress: Text and the Transparency Flattener

Monday, October 4th, 2004

Why is my text prin­ted from InDes­ign (a) fat (b) out­lined © fuzzy (d) or all of the above?

This art­icle describes the Adobe Sup­port Data­base Text Is Ras­ter­ized When You Print to a RIP from InDes­ign (2.0 on Win­dows or Mac OS)

In this example, you can see there has been a Pho­toshop file placed into a […]

Normandy Panoramas

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Auckland (23rd March to 25th March)

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

Auck­land Gallery

Leav­ing Auck­land…Judith, Emmah: retail ther­apy …Judith, Emmah, Nick, Two Dells…Karanga­hape Road. Shor­ted to K…Stuck in a meet­ing room, looki…Luke the new dad and Emmah…On the Free­way return­ing to Au…Bridge­work over Auck­land…Skytower, Auck­land…Best record store in the world…

Thursday, 25th March, 2004

Due to the timezone dif­fer­ence, presently only 1 hour, or more likely the lack of […]

Singapore (8th March to 12th March)

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

Singa­pore Gallery

On the flight from Frank­furt v…Nick asleep, Singa­pore Qantas …Three Aus­trali­ans doing last m…Inside Singa­pore air­port. Yes,…Limo to the air­port, Singa­pore…Adobe office, Suntec, Singa­por…Foun­tain of Wealth, Suntec…Three of the Suntec towers…Out­side the Pan Pacific…Inside the Funan Centre. Every…

Fri­day, 12th March, 2004

Thursday and fly­ing home. 20 minutes from hotel to checked-in, and through cus­toms. A […]

Singapore Gallery

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

Ran­dom shot from out­side the taxi in Singa­poreNick, Sydney in the back­ground, Qantas Club Sydney Intl­Laptop some­where near Dar­winEven the toi­let in the new 747 as a win­dow. Now the world gets to see your bare arseYes! The bag arrives in one pie­ceRainy night on arrival in Singa­pore. The taxi driver had it in […]

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