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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
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• 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
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• Mark Szulc - Adobe all-round expert and nice guy
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• 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.
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• 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
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Archive for December, 2006

The Protestant Work Ethic Does’t Work.

In a culture where work can be a religion, burnout is its crisis of faith.
About the technology-centric world in which we live: One has to wonder whether the developments of a high-speed world haven’t made burnout worse.
Another good read is "The Latham Diaries". Whilst Mark Latham has damaged the Australian Labor Party more than their [...]