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

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Email is for old Farts

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

… to para­phrase the quo­ta­tion below. Thanks to danah boyd for the inspir­a­tion.
(click on image to see lar­ger version)

Thanks to Mark Pesce for the recom­mend­a­tion to the Essen­tials journ­al­ist, Nick Galvin.
Oh, and Fiona Mor­ris had a ver­sion of the photo taken with cats. The cat ver­sions were fun­nier. Behind the scenes: when the photo as […]

New Business Card Title?

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Accord­ing to Stew­art Green­hill, I am “the friendly face of the evil empire Nick “pro­fes­sional geek” Hodge”
Lulz.

Creating in SecondLife

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Thanks to Uncle Dave Wal­lace (to the left), I now feel prop­erly attired in SecondLife:

Hanging out on the The Pod­cast Net­work island, where the Aus­tralian Twit­ter­arti drop in and out. Donated some money to Cameron so he’s not tak­ing food from his family’s mouth to cre­ate a place to visit.
Duncan Riley from Tech­crunch pos­ted his thoughts […]

Small Geek in the Wheel

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

More cluely people join the Aus­tralian DPE team. It’s way cool hav­ing smart friends on the team to bal­ance my ignor­ance on all Microsoft mat­ters import­ant.
A Spe­cial shout out to the ever help­ful Jeffa and Cap­tain Coates.

Frank seems to be reliev­ing his end-of-year frus­tra­tions by chan­ging my title in the HR sys­tem. It […]

ICT Day April 2007">Notes: Mount Gravatt ICT Day April 2007

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Web 2.0: needs extra work to map to teach­ing out­comes (del.icio.us, flickr) Many Web 2.0 sites still blocked by policy. It makes it dif­fi­cult to use all the cool web 2.0 stuff in school, espe­cially when these tools will be used by the stu­dents for pro­ject deliv­ery. Think a mashup as a pro­ject handin. (cool!)
If […]

Difference of Opinion: Digital Age

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

It has been an excel­lent week for the ABC. The Curtin “docu-drama” gave a por­trait of a man of his time: Prime Min­is­ter John Curtin dur­ing the 1941 through 1942.
Last night, Jeff McMul­lan did a stand­ard “journ­al­istic show” wrapped as debate on new tech­no­lo­gies, and the impact on com­munity on “Dif­fer­ence of Opin­ion: Grow­ing Up […]

Got the T-Shirt, now the Business Card

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

First, the email:
progeek@microsoft.com
Second the T-shirt:

Lastly, the business card:

Now I feel at home!