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Thank God For Twitter

Thursday, September 4, 2008

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I love twitter, I use it for friends, family, work and fun. What I love most about twitter, is how I think its brought our community much closer together, our Northern Group (Geekup, NorthHub, Local Usergroups) have come on a lot stronger over the past few months and I firmly believe a big hand in [...]

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High School Means Nothing

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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 I’m blogging pretty well at the moment, god knows how long that will last, my aim was to blog at least once a week this year, I’ve failed that but who knows I might just make the average up over the next few months.. I failed a lot of my GCSE’s, I moved schools a couple [...]

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oh we got both kinds. We got country *and* western

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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A line from one of my favourite films of all time and what I think 90% of British people equate country music to, since this Blog is all about me (of course!) I’m going to tell you how I found this genre and why nobody is anywhere near close to me in my friends circle [...]

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StartAStartupCamp / OpenSourceCamp anyone?

Monday, September 1, 2008

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So heres the idea that’s been going round my head for a couple of months and I could pretty much pull it off if the intrest was there.. 60 coders, designers, writers and general web geeks, split into teams of 6 Given a room, a weekend, server resources, internet access and of course food and drink given 40 [...]

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PowerPoint Karaoke

Monday, September 1, 2008

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One of the most fun things that happened at Barcamp was a bout of early morning PowerPoint Karaoke, for those who know not what this term means, The victim is handed a mic and the first slide of a random PowerPoint presentation (either found on the Internet or taken from other peoples presentations at the conference) [...]

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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About TheHodge

Monday, September 1, 2008

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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

Sunday, August 17, 2008

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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

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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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

Saturday, July 26, 2008

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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

Saturday, April 26, 2008

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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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