Neil Hopcroft

Christians birthday party – Cambridge A final chance to catch up with some the old Cambridge crew before I leave these shores. Good to see them all again, even if I didn’t get to talk to them much. I got trapped in the kitchen by a drunk psychiatric nurse (well, he said he was a […]

My first day as a doley and I’m up at 930…hrumph…thats not supposed to happen. Maybe I’ll get into it over the next couple of weeks.

Today I became officially between jobs – my last day was…interesting. I just went in to pick up some odd bits and pieces. As I was leaving at 5:30, someone pulled me aside and suggested that I should stay around for a meeting with some members of the board at 6. So, I ended up […]

This is the first in a series of brief, random and intermittent book reviews… Travels in Dreamland is a peculiar book about Area 51 and its relation to the UFO watching community in America. It describes the birth of the skunkworks, a fascinating and extremely intense lab/research department. There is also a lot of discussion […]

I’d forgotten just how good Lords of the New Church were.

Hmm, all looks a bit complicated to me.

…for the moment at least. A good night, and I got to dress up properly ‘cos I’ve given up going to work now and don’t need to be besuited. Quite a technoish set today, but there was enough of a break for NMAs “I love the world” – a stompy dancable track, but still prefer […]

I’ve been getting into the spirit of it all today, meeting up with evilmandykins for a whirlwind tour of some of the available books and technology. Randomly bumped into godgirl on the way around. We finished the evening off with a trip to Wagamama, where I managed to successfully reassure myself that I can actually […]