Its next thursday and thanks to the Leeds Ruby Thing guys and girls who have allowed us to share the venue for a couple of hours, bring yourself… some money (for drinks) and be in a good mood.

More details to come soon when I’ve had a bit of a sleep

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I’d write a bit more of a commentry but I’m off to see some husky racing soon

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• is peter kay a woman now?*
• real diggers for kids
• strange women you tube
• dollar in the arse
• domenic a great girl
• how can humans talk if they carn’t speak
• wii country karoke
• “the game” dom (apparently, i’ve now lost)
• am i spamming?
• and i looking for the address for linda hodgson
• can i go to high school if i’ve done my gcse’s
• diggers, childs birthday party
• dom in a mankini (erm…)
• dominic the nazi (worring)
• heather stickyeyes
• how much do you have to pay for a charity place on the great north run
• i’m sick of microsoft
• if you lie pina colada’s and getting caught in the rain
• is dominic weird (probably)
• next time i’ll only go to have coffee with people
• people are prepared to walk m to a bus stop
• pictures of female geeks
• seo shoes
• stickyeyes complaints
• tanker driver jobs
• ten steps to become a geek
• www i went to open hotmail
• you tube diggers

Some of those are cracking , what do your search logs say? are there any intresting stats from your blog / website?

*Theres actually been quite a few about Peter Kay and his sexuality, but I don’t want to post anymore on that because after the last post, he (she?) might start looking at some defamation of character thing and I’ve already had some legal trouble recently, don’t want any more

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Yorkshire forward are have a competition with barcampsheffield to promotion sheffield.. you have to make a webpage / video or do something fun to promotion Sheffield.. here’s my entry,

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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) its important that the person (and usually the audience) hasn’t seen the presentation before..

The presenter then has to “present” the presentation adlibbin and generally guessing the story, facts and what the hell the graphs mean…

It was hugely enjoyable and I had two goes, I’m a HUGE fan of improv and am currently working on getting something together video / group improv wise (if you’d like to be part of it, let me know).

So my intention is to run a session on this at Barcamp Brighton this weekend as one of the organisers of the Leeds Barcamp, it will be interesting to see how one runs down south.

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Northcast

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Northcrew 

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The We I mention are Paul Stanton, Ryan Taylor, Deb Bassett and of course ME!..

We had a good response yesterday from the preshow which was just to get Stanton and Taylor used to talking via a podcast and will be recording the next one… soonish

The real one launches in Jan with lots and lots of shiney (read: crappy) video until we can afford some decent stuff

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Version Control by Lorna

Q and A by Rockstar

(half of) TV 3 by Mark

and a few others, I really was intending on podcasting the day and doing some interivews but that really didn’t go to plan, however people seemed to like the day and have blogged some good stuff (especially about my session) and who could forget the ultimate barcamp battle of Rockstar’s latest game – Wii Table Tennis, in one corner – DOM, someone who never touched the game before, in the other corner IAN – Art Director for Rockstar Leeds, it was a tense battle with the warmup game handed to Ian first off but when The Hodge got into it Rockstar was defeated!.

The best bit about barcamp is the evening, and thanks to Rockstar for helping us out with that (congratulations to all afterparty attendees for out geeking a Rockstar coder), theres a lot of pictures floating around the internet, (do a search on flickr for barcampleeds)

God knows when the next one will be but I’m sure you’ll be informed..

As for geekup, last night I did a presentation about MTGCast and how it grew from this small little podcast to a network of casts thats too big for its own good , it was a 20:20 presentation that I felt went badly because well basiclly with everything that had been going on this week, I didn’t have time to sit down and go through it, but the information was there and it was a starting point for people to ask me questions after the presentation (of which I got quite a few).

We also announced the development of Northcast (I’ll link when things are up), a podcast that will demonstrate the abilities of northen companies and developers, the presentation was a “test the waters” thing to gauge peoples reaction and I’m glad I did a lot of people had comments and seems genuinely enthusiastic about it, a lot offered advice and quite a few wanted to book a slot to demo / talk about there site, company, experience, Ryan and Paul of Havoc Stuidos also joined as partners in podcasting, podcasting with people you know and gel with works a lot better (as was said in my presentation).

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Monday, the MELD launch event, which arrived and went with mixed reaction, a lot of people were disapointed at been asked to make posters as a “MELDING” event, but the concepts and the ideas discussed were worth the crappy drawings , I like MELD as a concept though I think the implementation of it at the moment is too broad and lacks focus, not to mention you had to apply for a place to come to the event and a lot of people were put off by the “invitation only” status..

Tuesday, the Apple launch event at Old Broadcasting House, I feel I will be blogging a lot more about this place over the coming months, not only because Linda is constantly bugging me to join, but also because thats were we Barcamp Leeds will be, but more on that later

Wednesday, Good old Geekup, upstairs this time in a more intimate environment,  good presentations and good company, I may be presenting next time.. IF I can get my skillz in order

Thursday, Work Night Out… nuff said!

Friday, Spent the evening playing Magic, something I havn’t done for a couple of months, which is Ironic considering I run a magic the gathering podcast network

and somewhere inbetween that we announced the date for Barcamp Leeds… which looks to be an awesome event..

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if you would like it contact me to discuss anything dominichodgson@gmail.com, thanks for everyone who listened, if you like it or don’t like it, please comment on this blog

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