Neil Hopcroft

Today I bought the ugliest peripheral I have ever owned. Its bright orange with a flat face and a bulbous body. Its a MMC/SD/MemoryStick reader, which was supposed to go with my shiny new SDCard player, but due to my being stupid I forgot to get the software that transfers files to the player…will have […]

…have passed since I arrived in this land. So tonight, I went out for a huge Indian meal to celebrate. Yum. Tomorrow is a bank holiday, what kind of country gives you the day off just for it being the equinox? Its not like I’m complaining, of course, since my weekend shopping trip got rained […]

A keyboard! At last I’ve got some mobility and can sit more comfortably while typing. Its going to take a little getting used to since its a Japanese 109 key keyboard with way more squiggles per key than I know how to use and a dinky space bar. In future I must remember not to […]

Someone entertain me before I spend all night posting uselessnesses like this: neilh‘s LiveJournal Secret Crush Stats The below statistics indicate what sorta crushes neilh has on his LJ friends! No Crush 88.9% Secret Crush 1.6% Public Crush 1.6% Ex-Crush 7.9% What are your LiveJournal Secret Crush Stats?Tired of the sickly Suicide Girls? Faux geek […]

Dammit, I’m bored! So bored that I wrote an XML parser, in fact. Its only crude at the moment, but thats as smart as it needs to be, I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do next…Perforce is so much less hassle than CVS and free for up to two users. The weather […]

I’ve just found some Pocky sticks with the slogan “Just like a cake, on a stick!” Yum

So…I guess that’ll be what an earthquake is like, then? Hmmm, not quite what I expected, rather shorter and sharper. Its the first I’ve knowingly noticed – there’s been a couple of things I thought might be but wasn’t sure.

Warcraft: the boardgame looks quite cool.