Neil Hopcroft

Geek Social Fallacy #5: Friends Do Everything Together “GSF5, put simply, maintains that every friend in a circle should be included in every activity to the full extent possible. This is subtly different from GSF1; GSF1 requires that no one, friend or not, be excluded, while GSF5 requires that every friend be invited. This means […]

At last I’ve gotten myself another phone…what happened (as if anyone really cares) was that the cable accidentally dunked itself in soup while I was out, I got home to discover my computer complaining that it didn’t recognise the device that was plugged in – thats not a device, thats my lunch. Obviously the soup […]

I got home from my walk this afternoon to discover that the soup i had for lunch has eaten the cable that connects my phone to the computer. so much for a useful afternoon catching up on email. have to fill in tax forms instead.

Who is Little My? I can’t identify you from the little information I have. Do you know me? …you’ve commented on this journal a couple of times now and it would be nice to know who you are. Mail me if you’d rather not leave such details in a comment here, or if you would […]

Pupils face camera phone ban “It is possible for kids to use them in the shape of bullying but perhaps more sinister than that it can be used by paedophiles.” To some extent I agree with the idea of banning camera phones from schools, they certainly have the potential for intrusiveness. And the way the […]

I’ve finally caught up enough to get a chance to write up the trip to Finland last week. There are still plenty of things that need doing, and I’m not feeling too good so concentrating on actually doing them is not easy…I think its a combination of jetlag and a cold or something I picked […]

Brilliant, just listening to the bizarre Finnish rock compilation I bought last week, its got a local language version of “You’re in the army now”

Catching up on everything now – I’ve got a pile of paperwork six inches high and hirez keeps pointing out things like this (retro handsfree) and this (home of a polyphon, amongst other things). And, just to demonstrate I can use the interweb without the help of an adult, there are some see-through-ables over here, […]

Urgh, I finally get to sleep after being only half awake all of yesterday and something (I assume an earthquake, but don’t know – they’re always over by the time I wake up, unless they’re quite big) wakes me up after two hours. And I seem to have started dreaming again. Which I think is […]

I survived Finland. Back in Tokyo, fighting off sleepiness until its a sensible time to go to bed. Relatively uneventful journey home, minor delays waiting for some connecting passengers from Manchester and a bit of turbulence. Got back and the first thing I did was watch the video of “Wynonas big brown beaver” (if you […]