Neil Hopcroft

When your boss asks you whether you have any plans for the weekend the correct response is “Why are you asking?”, not “No”. I think I have escaped the meeting in Helsinki on wednesday, but not sure about the one next week…

And a random thought from last night – I’m not the only one who finds it slightly disturbing to have a 40 year old guy in a leather miniskirt trying to catch my eye all night, am I? (Do people here find me slightly disturbing?) I don’t have a problem with the concept of being […]

It occurred to me today that the dancing Elvises of Yoyogi-koen have probably not encountered the Leningrad Cowboys. Which I think is something of a shame, they would get on, I’m sure. I’m getting quite addicted to ‘Leningrad’ (“…they’re going to name my hometown Petersburg…”) and the video for ‘Happy being miserable’ has to be […]

…was a slogan I saw on the side of a van earlier this week. I didn’t take their number. Middonaitomesu again last night, after a miserable day sat at home waiting for the weather to be less grim before going out in it. Still, at least I kicked off one of the projects thats been […]

Lego Album Covers

This says everything I’ve been trying to say: “make sure that your child has better things to do in its life than pick up thirty-year-old perverts on an IRC channel” – diffrentcolours

Justice, of a sort I’m not sure why I find this disturbing – I think the idea that some of these vigilantes are getting some kind of kick out of pretending to be 14 year old girls is probably one of the major factors. In this context, this kind of activity is entrapment, it should […]

We’re doomed

It seems the New Scientist have lost it. That, or they’ve found an RSS feed they don’t like and are giving it rubbish: – ‘Blueberries’ are answer to key Mars puzzle – RFID chips watch Grandma brush teeth – Space dust to unlock Mexican pyramid secrets Has it always been this mad? Was I always […]

Some more gadgetage