Dominic "The Hodge" Hodgson

Am I’m bloody excited, I’m very happy with the speaker list we have and pretty soon we will have our schedule up with rooms and talks.

Tickets will go on sale…… Monday at 10am so get your cards / Paypal accounts ready. Remember if you came to thinkvisibility 1 you will get a discount on the ticket price if you use your voucher code inside your lanyard (I’m afraid I cannot reissue them because they were done manually at 3am the night before think visibility!)

One thing I think that didn’t go to plan last time was the after party so if you are coming, remember to book for the weekend as there are plenty of things to do on Sunday (we are thinking a NorthernSEM breakfast which will more than likely be a NorthernSEM Sunday dinner)

The venue is a new one and hopefully going to be the venue for the next couple of conferences, if we don’t like it we can always move but the sad part about doing this is that you realise pretty quickly that almost everyone is out to screw you.

In the meantime we’ve got NorthernSEM, The Northern Blogggers Meetup, Geekup, a hackday to organise, a couple of web apps to launch and I’ve still got to blog on here once a day

Sometimes life is fun

microsoft has done some weird shit in the past but these videos… take the cake.

Only mangos could make these better

…..going to be announced tommorow at 11am

so today, I confirmed the aquisition of the domain name hodge.it, i’m very happy about this but there seems to be a problem, I have no idea what to do with it… the obvious use is a url shorterner much like timnash.eu but that seems a little… useful for such a cool domain..

One suggestion on twitter was an overlay of sites with a big grinning hodge, which I liked but to be honest.. I’m worryed someone would hodge a BNP website or similar and it would be like I approved that sort of thing..

The best idea wins a pint of local ale AT a leeds local pub.

I’ve seen a lot of them… but…..oh god… just watch it….

Its time for my monthly blog post to remind people about NorthernSEM…

We’ve moved it to friday now for the people who are travelling from that there london so they can enjoy the night without having to worry about work in the morning..

www.northernsem.co.uk no speakers, no talks… good beer

The genius bar, is one of the best tech support systems I’ve seen…

My mac arrived back this morning, with windows stickers attached and everything.

The experience of booking an appointment, being seen on time, speaking to someone who knew the problem, solution and was able to book it in without having to go through a system of commands and checkpoints was pretty impressive.

I’ve had problems with customer service in the past and there is no love lost between me and the mac but colour me impressed.

I was considering selling the mac and giving up the mac test and putting down to experience but I think this weekend might include a bit of bootcamp and windows 7

I still miss right click

Pics enclosed

Now to invite them to hack north

Add the worse, most embarassing, cheesyist and most dreadful songs on to this…

http://open.spotify.com/user/thehodge/playlist/4KUPpUWWezwWLT7oh8EcEc

(I`ll be honest, this is one of those posts that I write after I’ve had a drink and forgotten to blog)