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Nick Hodge is a professional geek and digital diplomat for Microsoft in Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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• Anna Liu - My boss’s blog on architectural things I don’t understand.
• Barbora Zychova - I am Number 2 in the Fan Club.
• Brian Johnson - US East Coast EE dude
• Christian Longstaff - Fellow Microsoft AU videographer
• Crowded House - Crowded House reforming
• Des Walsh - Doyen of the Australian Blogging Community
• Frank Arrigo - Frank Arrigo, Head Geek goes to America
• Geek Girl Blogs - The best geeks are girls
• I Work on the Web - If you work on the Web, join the meme
• John-Daniel Trask - JD is a cool geek guy from Wellington. Does cool stuff with all the Microsoft stuff.
• Jukka Wallasvaara - Finnish
• Kurt Messersmith - Because I am sports knowledge challenged, Kurt is my go-to-guy
• Live Spaces - Experimental Only. Duck.
• Mark Szulc - Adobe all-round expert and nice guy
• Me on YouTube - My channel on SueTube
• Michael Kordahi - Delicate Genius, both names apply
• Mossy Blog - Scott Barnes: webdev.guru
• Nas Khan - Third best NZ’er, WPF+Silverlight: Designer blog
• Nic Filingham - Fellow Aussie Enthusiast Evangelist, in Singapore
• Nick Hodge, Excel MVP - Mr Excel, not me. I am MINI me.
• Nick’s Flickr Photos - All public photos are posted on Flickr.com
• Paul Foster - Pommy Microsoft Geek with Robots!
• ScenarioGirl - The state of UX, Accessiblity
• Shane Morris - User Experience Guru
• Stilgherrian - Mr Nerd from crikey.com.au - but really he is a geek
• The Geek Stories - Nick Hodge’s blog on on10.net
• The Geek Whisperer - Ajay bonding geeks and noobs
• The Podcast Network - Cameron’s New Media Conglomerate
• Twitter - Follow me, almost minute-x-minute on Twitter

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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 [...]

Books, DVDs

Les Carlyon, The Great War. Documenting Australian stories from individual soldiers to the indifferent commanders on the western front of World War I. Excellent 2.5 day read. Highly recommended for lovers of Australian Military History, and a good followup to Les' previous tome, Gallipoli. It also documents the interference of then journalists Charles Bean and [...]

Personal and Professional Resolutions for 2008

The home matters.
Weigh less again at the end of 2008. Improve on 2007 results.
Geeks Who Care matters. There is something in Cameron Reilly's initiative. If all this technology does wonderful stuff, and we geeks are the mavens: where are the so-called benefits? Politicans should care less about censorship and control, and more about what they [...]

Reviewing 2007

Goodbye, and good luck 2007.
Reviewing 2007, there were 4 resolutions/tasks to complete:

Take family back to Japan, this time getting out of Tokyo (geek out in Blade Runner 2007 not 2019)
Weigh less in December 2007 vs now (eat better)
Refind my geek roots
Write more interesting, technical articles on this blog (become less boring)

Point by point [...]

Playing with Wordpress / Flickr integration

Using FAlbum, here are my Flickr photo albums here in the blog.

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Bathroom: Ready for Rendering
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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth. A short story from Cory Doctorow.
I read this story in a sci-fi short stories compilation on my recent trip to the US. I even gave it to Liam to read, as it presents a world of online governance.

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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 [...]

Japan 2.0: Lost Underground in Osaka

Goal today was to work out exactly where we are, and what is around. And more importantly, how we are getting around.

Picture: Can Has 8-bit Text! Shinkansen timetable
First stop: JR station to purchase tickets. Eventually lining up in the correct queue, we spent about AU$1200 on carious Shinkansen (bullet/fast train) both to Hiroshima for Sunday, [...]

Japan 2.0: The Traveling

Up at 6:00am, arrive at airport at 8:30am and through checkin, customs and immigration. Our checked in baggage weighs 31kg; and other carry on is 25kg.  Including assorted liquids under 100ml.
OK, what's the deal with putting your 100ml liquids into a plastic bag. The security guys at Sydney International grabbed some poor Chinese student's fish [...]