Neil Hopcroft

Looks like things are coming together for the next chapter…only got some paperwork to sort out now…more details soon, when I’m less tired and more capable of thinking and typing…

Erm, well, I hadn’t really expected to be an extreme heretic…such is life. The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell – The City of Dis!Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Low Level […]

What about Sendo? They’re a handset manufacturer in Birmingham. They’re also rather confused, getting me to a face-to-face interview under false pretenses – the position was actually a UI position, not a core system position. I wouldn’t even have bothered with a phone interview if I’d known that…how come I didn’t figure it out until […]

Time for some interviews…I had a phone interview with Teleca…I didn’t understand before I spoke to them what they did. I still didn’t understand after I’d spoken to them. Perhaps they’re not my kind of company after all. They seemed desperate to get people without really having a plan of what they were going to […]

Work starts on the EPOC client. Its all looking good so far – the protocol is trivial, the UI complexity minimal, the wiring the hold the whole thing together shouldn’t take more than another couple of clear days…but I should probably go to the office tomorrow so not much will happen ’til the end of […]

I wonder how difficult an EPOC port of an LJ client would be?

During the run up to the end I received a call from a guy I used to work with. He was wondering if I knew anyone with EPOC skills who could help out on a large project….so we arranged to meet up. The meeting was a little more interview and a little less meeting an […]

Blyth Power rocked.

Off to Blyth Power gig in Reading – apparently there are two Rising Suns there, a bit greedy I feel when the rest of us have to put up with only one.

Sooner or later the will to continue the project left the company… we were all given notice of redundancy sometime around 16th April. Hurrah! Of course this leaves the project team slightly demotivated, and questions about the future viability of the project abound. There is a potential way out, but the talks to make that […]