Dominic “The Hodge” Hodgson

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About TheHodge

I got some criticism recently from someone who said I was a bit too self promoting… so to prove her right I thought I’d do another MEEE! post (after all it is my blog), its about 1am and I cannot sleep.. So 10 things 1. My last name hasn’t always been Hodgson (it was changed 3 years ago [...]

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Thinking Twice Before Getting Involved

this post has some swearing, spelling and grammar mistakes.. if the first one bothers you then please don’t read this post, if the latter two bother youcorn  then please don’t read this blog.. To celebrate the end of BarCampLeeds08 and the start of our week in wales, Heather and I decided to have Sunday lunch at [...]

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So I’ve got a new job

Afternoon all, I just wanted to take a bit of time to post that fact that two weeks ago I left my position at Stickyeyes after two days of unemployement, I become employed at a company called Yardmist, owners of cheap suites and bigbathroomshop.com, my time will be split between working at hodgehouse, OBH and [...]

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eDocr Legal Action

Sit back kids this ones gonna be a long one, About 8 months ago at barcamp Leeds 2007, I talked to Manoj for a short period of time, we spoke about getting him on northcast and edocrs current status, I mentioned that i noticed edocr.co.uk was available and he should buy it before someone does and [...]

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Concentrate Your SEO on Longtail Terms

When most people want SEO its because they are seeing some search traffic and want more, a lot of clients will do a one keyword search for a product or service and want to be number one for that “shoes” for example, that’s all well and good but in a world where places like Amazon [...]

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Dom’s Mini Lightsabre

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Dom’s got a mini lightsabre and not afraid to use it!

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Gravy In Yer Servers

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The Hodge “stars” in an intresting advert for everyones fav. leeds based rails hosting company

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Mario Kart Wii Release Meet Up Anyone?

Anyone that has met me at a meet up or barcamp knows I usually wear a Nintendo T-shirt and it started off as a joke but now people get a little worried if I don’t wear one (Sorry Matt) anyway April the 11th is the release date of Mario Kart Wii… REALLY excited by this.. [...]

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Barcamp Manchester

Well its now tuesday night, barcamp manchester was on saturday so by the time you read this you’ve probably already had your fill.. but anyway I think it was a really good day, although on the day I only sat in one session (and spoke in one session), I met a lot of old and new [...]

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Geek Girl Dinners - Great Idea, However..

Well this post could go wrong, very wrong, the latest in the Geek Girl dinners has just been announced and this time it’s in the North, Manchester to be exact, and I think that’s fantastic, I’m in support of anything that helps women in technology (a nod to PHPWomen) infact I’m in support of anything [...]

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