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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

Archive for September, 2006

New Part-Time Job

F.M.E.F.
Be warned, I am on the lookout! Offenders will be prosecuted and exposed.

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NASA Conspiracy Theory #475658

Atlantis Landing Delayed: Mystery Object in space. From what I can see, NASA is now dumping plastic bags in space. Let's hope some that some hyper-intelligent inter-galactic space whales don't accidently mistake the trash as zero-gravity squid monster and beach themselves on the dust of the moon.
Conspiracy Theory #475658. NASA wants to destroy the planet, [...]

Measuring Success

Success does not equal Management.

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Peter Jackson’s post Dam Busters movie?

The 7th gate of hell is opening.

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Into that goodnight, GoLive?

A part of the Acrobat 8 launch today, Creative Suite Premium is getting a revamp.
And not just with Acrobat 8. Goodbye GoLive, hello Dreamweaver 8.
GoLive Systems, a small Hamburg Mac-only developer, was purchased by Adobe before the dotcom boom. Sadly, it might have been the boom's first casualty as it languished behind Dreamweaver.
No surprises [...]

Forms are the key to Acrobat 8.0 Professional

As I am no longer "inside the Adobe-loop", I found out about the announcement courtesy of Robert Scoble's post. Of all people!
My first question: where is the beta of the Reader? With Acrobat 7.0, the beta Reader shipped very close to the announce. Also, Intel Mac users; I am assuming its Universal binary, as [...]

10 Most Stressful Professions.

eknowledger lists the top 10 stressful professions. IT is top of the list.
Bad Management seems to be also a bug bear.

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Vista RC1 OK on Parallels 1896.2 (and Acrobat 8)

Watching the Parallels web site, I noted that the engineers had posted some more info, and a later build. 1896.2 I don't know what the .2 means; probably that .1 wasn't quite right.
Waiting for a better video driver (to use up the 256Mb of the MacBook Pro, without resorting to Boot Camp)
Anyway:

Is Vista [...]

Americans on Mars, Photoshop on Venus

Using old tapes of the USSR Venera missions to Venus, Don Mitchell a retired Bell Labs and Microsoft Researcher, used Photoshop to "clean up the images"
How long before these turn up on Google Universe?

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Watching the Language Wars

Today, at least in the US, it is Programmer's Day.
Maybe it should be called "International Programming Language Peace Day". The level of advocacy for various programming languages reaches rhetorical heights last seen during the one of the not-so-successful 18th century revolutions.
When not speaking to humans, other programmers to reading the latest advocacy on their language [...]