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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.
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• Mark Szulc - Adobe all-round expert and nice guy
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• 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!
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• Stilgherrian - Mr Nerd from crikey.com.au - but really he is a geek
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Archive for April, 2007

Big Day in Queensland

A big thankyou to Scot Steinhardt, Principal of Mount Gravatt High School. He runs a tight ship, and had a big day yesterday with "big names" arriving from all corners of Australia to get some of his time.  Thanks, Scot. And live that dream!
To all the teachers who attended and answered my random questions. Thanks.
Also, [...]

Notes: Mount Gravatt ICT Day April 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

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 [...]

In a week of surreality

In a week of surreality, I learnt I am a MINI-me to a Nick Hodge in the UK and attended Ying Tong.
An email from my mother-in-law, who emigrated to Australia in the mid 1950s, connected more dots. And some family skeletons in the closet fell out.
Before jumping aboard the ship to Australia, she worked at [...]

Microsoft Unlimited Potential: Why I work at Microsoft

Microsoft adds more back to the community than other companies I've worked for. In 500 years time, people will remember Bill's philanthropy work before they think of the software company, and the impact on technology. This is in a similar way as the Medici in Florence.

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Ying Tong: Spike Milligan Lost His Marbles

An early birthday present from Avril and Liam: we all went and saw Ying Tong at the Opera House on Thursday evening.
George Orwell asserted: "whatever is funny is subversive". In the 1950s, The Goon Show as deeply subversive and way before its time.
One confession: I love English humour, but I am a late bloomer. It [...]

How surreal is this?

Nick, Mr. Excel UK, and I are in cross-licensing discussion regarding our respective names.
Next time I am in the UK, I reckon it's time for a beer. My shout.

The top is a picture of Nick P Hodge near the US Whitehouse, and Nick J Hodge near the UK Big Ben in London. Nick P is [...]

Compare and Contrast

this:

Avril says the above picture "is me".  That's the effect of a great boss, company to work for and a job that's "you". Remember, finding what you love doing is the best piece of career advice any adult can provide.
to my last Adobe PR shot, which I just found:

 
I remember the day the Adobe shot [...]

Introducing me mate, Paul Foster

Paul Foster, he of landed gentry and serf owner in England (all I know is that it ain't London), is starting to blog more. Being a smarter chap than I, and more experienced with robots and Microsoft stuff, he gets to write about cool things like exploding dunnies.
With the connection to my new English friend, [...]

My Clone

He's even got my name! Although I am concerned about his Monarchic-tendencies. At least he is a Microsoft MVP in my favourite Microsoft application of the last 3 years: Excel. No seriously, I would not have survived in my last Adobe job without pivot tables, databases, named ranges.
Thanks for the link, Bruce.

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