Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for February 2004

.tv washout …living on nine scattered atolls all less than 4.5 metres (15 feet) above sea level, will be hit Thursday and Friday by “king tides”…On Thursday at 4.40pm (0440 GMT) the tide will peak at 3.07 metresfeet) and on Friday at 5.19pm (0519 GMT) will reach 3.1 metres (10.2 feet). MOCkery …attempt a speed […]

One for all you S60 owning Hello Kitty fans… http://themes.symbian-world.com/info.php?id=2

Nighttime neon city wastelands…

Gillian was back from Kyoto yesterday, so we met for a meal last night. Shes staying Ueno now, we wandered most of the way around it before stumbling across a traditional Japanese place with an English menu on the next block from her hotel. The food was really good and the staff talkative and helpful…I […]

Today has been made of testing device drivers, getting annoyed at lack of synchronisation, rumours, being paid to find Java games on the net, power supplies, trace loggers and waiting for flash stations.

“Neil, I’m in Shibuya” After a few weeks of running on hectic I’ve finally had a day to myself to sort out some of the things that have been somewhat neglected.

Some more questions from mindygoth: 1) I often think you look slightly bewildered… are you? Do I? Probably, yes, but I’ve never really thought about it that much…social interaction was never really that much of a strong point for me, I don’t (think) I take on that kind of look unless there are other people […]

The golden age of the internet

It would seem we are entering a new age of global communication. Today is the first day I have considered giving up on email as a useful communication mechanism, I had expected the MyDoom storm to calm and everything to return to normal. This has yet to happen. September just got worse [0]. Email is […]

My first LiveJournal spam! What joy. Its a chain letter for a Christian movie. Yeah, that’ll go down well. On so many levels. If this becomes the norm I will be closing down anonymous posting to this journal…. Most of the posts will still be publically readable, as they are now, though.