Neil Hopcroft

Todays quick wandering around trialling the wifisniffer (wiffer?) suggests that urban Tokyo is roughly half covered with pockets of 2.4GHz rf which may or may not be active wireless networks. More exploration necessary, and perhaps more gadgetary too. The Meiji shrine was pure crowd yesterday, there was a frantic feeling in the air, a need […]

January 19 is Penguin Awareness Day (from )

Hey, razornet, I got a morbid fear of being chased through a red light district by a tiger in a flower arrangement, thats gotta be worth something?

Christmas shopping today, finally got myself some toys…it was a bit touch and go, cos I couldn’t find anything I wanted apart from a camcorder but then there was a nagging question about whether that was PAL or NTSC and I decided it wasn’t worth spending that much to find out that it wouldn’t be […]

Oh good… What Famous Leader Are You?

Before I rename you, Mr Bond…

FBI urges police to watch for people carrying almanacs “WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning…The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, […]

Damn you, venta, everywhere I go now I am constantly thinking to myself “That’d make a really good shot for ‘curve’”. I must have twelve now, perhaps I could do a variant where I enter twelve shots for the same word? Or perhaps one shot that covers as many of the words a possible? (like […]

Apathy – The Cause Thats Not Worth Fighting For, by Simon Hendley, is a booklet about how apathy really rules the world, it investigates the difference between an active choice to do nothing (apathy) and a passive actuality of not doing anything (laziness). I worry that there is a slight fuzzying of the causal relationship […]