Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for May 2003

Shifting sands of time

Why can’t I successfully plan anything at the moment? Everything keeps moving around and not quite falling into place…looks like I’ll be off to Paris tomorrow or friday now, which is probably a good thing all things considered ‘cos I’ve not even thought about packing yet…

What should my new company be called? Candidates so far are: Florescent Ltd S&M Telecoms Ltd Spacelinks Aviation Ltd Cybergenic Engineering Ltd I think I like Florescent best of those…

The fuses have been lit…

Well, all the paperwork has gone off for the work permit application… it’ll take about two weeks, maybe three, once it gets to Japan. Then I get something I need to take to the embassy in London. And then its all systems go.

We’re so middle aged…

…or was it middle class? I can’t remember, but fear I’m getting to be a bit of both… As an expression of this I appear to have kidnapped a fine teaspoon from mindygoth

Gathering…

Thank you to everyone who made it to the picnic yesterday – it was good to see some faces I’ve not seen for a while before I disappear around the world…keep in touch…come and visit…I’ll let you know when I’m back…

Oven cleaner is evil

Spooky Lego rocks – its got a vampire in a coffin and heads in bottles and bats and a spider and a hunchback and a cart and a guy with a microphone

Sayonara

I’m moving to Japan. It’s time to explain some of the cryptic comments and allusions I’ve been making here over the past few days… On the Monday morning (after the verbal redundancy notice on Friday) I had a phone interview with Nokia in Tokyo. By 10am that morning I’d received a job offer. This is […]