TheGeekStories

"It's all good" with Jeff Alexander. Jeff is a Microsoft veteran, a geek and publisher of Vista Screencasts on his blog on Technet.In this episode of "The Geek Stories", Nick Hodge, a Professional Geek for Microsoft, interviews Jeff in his other Sydney office.See if Nick and Jeff…

My first video for on10.net, the community hosted by along with the other Enthusiast Evangelists, is now live. Last week, it was a little scramble to align Jeff and my calendar's, but it's all good and worked out best being postponed to this week. I had storyboarded this video, and learnt that this…

In the quest to capture more of Australia's Geek Stories, I attended the first BarCamp in Sydney. Hear stories of joy and delight, power and passion. And of course, just downright geeky.

BarCampSydney, held at University Technology Sydney on Saturday 3rd March 2007. Being a Saturday, I hired my 15 year old son Liam to be my cameraman for the day. Thanks, Liam! The better audio quality is thanks to a new condenser microphone, which is highly directional and sound recorded with…

Whilst at BarCampSydney, I caught up with two Australian startups: one hardware and the other online.Cylo have produced the 3Dstyle mouse, highlighted at the recent CES Event.Tangler.com is a group interaction and communication site.Hear Mick from Tangler and Laurence from Cylo describe; and show;…

Joel Pobar's Geek Story.Joel comes over as a mild-mannered geek. Underneath his manner is developer who knows his stuff: especially when it comes to Microsoft's CLR, dynamic languages and some personal research he is doing that was presented at BarCampSydney.For more up-to-date info, visit Joel's…

This week I decided to interview two experts in the local online communities, social networking and citizen journalism space.First up is Laurel Papworth, a lecturer, online community expert and WoW fan. Laurel has worked for many gaming community sites, as well as incubating many…

With the Imagine Cup 2007 underway, you sometimes wonder what happened to previous winners. Are they living in the south of France serving drinks to movie stars?The members of the winning 2004 Imagine Cup team, France, now live and work in Sydney.  Where else would top-notch .Net developer…

Bruce Satchwell, CEO of Alive Technologies, just loves his gadgets. These gadgets do some pretty cool things: watch your blood oxygen level, ECG and heart rate over Bluetooth to your Windows Mobile phone.Add a GPS, collate the data and map onto a live.com map: and you have the perfect exercise…

Kevin Richardson, Headmaster of Immanuel College in Adelaide, is a recognised leader in technology learning in schools.  Originally, he started his teaching life as a Tech Studies teacher in South Australia and was a technology-in-education sceptic. As you can see in this video…