Neil Hopcroft

Hands up who knows about The 69 Eyes? Why didn’t you tell me? Have you got any more bands like them that you have also forgotten to tell me about? And, while I’m at it, how come these guys are in the top 10 in Finland? I mean they’re good, that normally disqualifies you from […]

Tonight I failed to find Paranoia[0] so I strolled up the hill to the biggest spectrum analyser I’ve ever seen[1] and went inside for a pizza. Of course, this is back to Roppongi Hills, a place I’ve likened to Paradise Towers in the past. This time its scarier, there is an art exhibition going on […]

Today, my first quake with other people in sight, 430pm, watching their reactions – most of us just paused at the terminal, little yelps from the corner of the office, my boss wandered past asking what was going on. No ducking, no panicking, no running, just standing or sitting still waiting for the rattling to […]

Everythings lagging: – jet – email – cashflow Need to get back to realtime….

Album mini-review: “Deep shadows and brilliant highlights” by Him rocks. Admittedly I’ve only listened to one track so far but that track rocks. Incidentally, anyone know anything about the copy protection it claims to have, ‘cos my ripper seems to be behaving perfectly normally.

Everything is looking hectic here at the moment and I’m not getting much of a chance to look around Tampere except for the inevitable getting lost while driving back to the hotel. Have just put the finishing touches to a script to run over night and its time to go home. More later….

…blaring from the stereo. And now i’m in jetlag city stuck with a hotel internet system that has an appalling keyboard that makes double keying an art form and has limits on its html form entry sizes. No matter, the sun will be rising soon giving me a good view of the paper factory over […]