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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

silverlight

In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython

Pop over to http://www.trypython.org/ and Python away.
Using IronPython and the Silverlight 2.0 plugin, being CloudPythonic has never been so easy.

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DG.TV: DeepZoom with Jose

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French Silverlight Page Flip Flickr Fun

Silverlight/Flickr Fun

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Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2: How To

Mike Taulty has de-composed and written a quick how-to for the Deep Zoom technology as used by Hard Rock Cafe.
There goes my weekend.

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Hard Rock: The Memorabilia

(Photo above: Snare Drum signed by Paul Hester, Crowded House, Hard Rock Gold Coast)
Hard Rock display Rock and Roll Memorabilia in their restaurants around the world.
Using Silverlight 2 (a mere 4.38Mb download for Windows Vista) the browsing experience is rock and roll.
Now you can browse through their collection online. This is just wow.

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Tafiti: Search on a different plane

Mashup using Microsoft's Live Search. Created in Silverlight. Go have a butchers at the video.

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New Revision of Popfly (19th July 2007)

... New revision of Popfly is up...
Just in time for me, as I return to business-as-usual.

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Third Best New Zealander…

After Neil Finn, JD comes Nas. She is smart and really funny.
She's started her blog, Flickr'ng and met her hero all in the same week. Not to mention something with fish. Here she is choosing lunch, or finding Nemo. Or probably both.

WPF and Silverlight for Designers. Removing the "bloke-i-ness" of Silverlight and making it real.  [...]

ReMIX Has Inspired Me to…

Add more microformats to this blog (John Allsopp)
Silverlight myself up. Maybe not to this extent, however.
Become Mr Popfly Australia, and do more demos
Thanks to 2m20s Philip Beadle, dotNetNuke is on the list, too

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3 Days to Silverlight

Readify have a 3 day training course to learn Silverlight.
On my TBD list for 2007. Since mossyblog refuses to show me his l33t sk1llz.

Notice the keyboard and t-shirt. In the above photo he's in Orcas doing some piece of Silverlight. On the screen in the background are a whole bunch of figures that is enthralling [...]