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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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Site Design Temporarily Reset

Time to upgrade to the latest Wordpress. Time to remove many old plugins that were causing nastiness. A better designed theme will return, soon. For those reading through RSS, ignore this post.
Some other things are going a bit haywire. In the midst of fixing this now. I must admit I feel better on Wordpress 2.1.2.
The [...]

Interesting Historical Statistics

As a part of the transition of my blog entries from the old PHP-based Mungenetengine to PHP-based Wordpress I've needed to categorize and title my older posts.
It has been interesting noting certain milestones:

Total blog posts: 371Which totals 5.6 posts per month, on average over the last 5.5 years.
Started Weblogging: January 20005.5 years of blogging, more [...]

Site Design Changed

The base design of www.nickhodge.com has changed. More work with the changed URLs from last week, plus a new image courtesy Mark Szulc taken at Kare Kare, NZ. Worked on the CSS; using a three column liquid layout. Any errors, or misrenderings. Just email.
Update, 16th June 2006: fixed issues with CSS when being browsed [...]

URLs have Changed

Thanks to an email from Ola, and some research; I've taken the liberty to change the URL format on www.nickhodge.com. Using a posting on Modrewrite Forums: Complicated .htaccess, it was a simple matter and 15 lines of Modrewrite for Apache, we're off!

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JPEG2000 and Photoshop CS2

JPEG2000 and JPF Files: What, When, and How (JPEG2000 support in Photoshop CS2)

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photo blog experiment

To the right of the front page of www.nickhodge.com is a quick experiment: the Photo Blog Experiment. Now that MMS is working from my Sony-Ericsson phone, I can email to a special process running on this web server. The photo is de-attached and inserted into the database. Within 5 minutes of taking a photo, it [...]

Wow

Newsgator to Mungenetengine via Metaweblog API
To explain the previous post. As I "live" in Outlook 2003, and finding less and less time to browse web sites, I've invested in Newsgator. Version 2.0 has this useful "blog" posting feature that was too good to leave alone. There is a plugin mechanism to Newsgator; and I've installed [...]

InDesign Plugins

Thanks Andrew for spotting this: For InDesign 2.0 and CS: MultiDo: To celebrate the launch of EasyCatalog, we are offering a free plug-in that allows you to perform multiple undo or redo operations in one step using new undo multiple and redo multiple menu options. The menu will dynamically update to reflect the 100 most [...]

60th Anniversary of D-Day

60th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. You've probably seen the deservedly saturation coverage on the TV news. Sadly, the 60th is probably the last major anniversary that the veterans will experience. As Stephen Ambrose has said, this generation was probably the greatest.
To give D-Day an Australian flavour: we did have sailors and airman who served [...]

April 2004 Europe

Within the short period of 70 days, I visit at least 7 cities in Asia and Europe. This is a special textlog and imagelog of the experience.
70 Days, 7 Countries

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