Neil Hopcroft

Oh, and I didn’t tell you about the dream I had the other night, where I was cursing a PocketPC for crashing while I was trying to control a space shuttle with it. It had dreadful UI lag too.

Last night was the leaving party of Okawara-san, one of the cute girls on the testing and usability team. We were a little late for the trek up to the restaurant so headed up later with Bo, who had a scruffily drawn map on a huge piece of paper. We were in roughly the right […]

While I was in McDonalds[0] earlier I had the surreal pleasure of hearing a recording of the hymn ‘Jerusalem’ sung in Japanese chorus. This is so deeply wrong that I want a copy. [0] Yes, I know, but it was another late night at the office, following a 30minute phone call to Finland to try […]

‘ten years for ID fraud’ headlines are being deployed to help Blunkett present a tough…stance “So shall we recap? We will have a new, stiffer penalty for an offence that gained a new, stiffer penalty just last year. A large proportion of those caught carrying false ID will, as previously, be swiftly ejected from the […]

…am I pressing reload? Everyone apart from Dilbert is in Whitby at the moment, and he’s already turned up today. Anyone who’s there and reading this tell everyone I know that I say ‘hi’.

I don’t know whether to be impressed or depressed that KLF sampled Uriah Heap.

Today I went to the end of the Oedo line, its an unusual line in-so-far-as it only has one end. It also remains underground for the entirity of the journey. I emerged into an area of many many huge blocks of flats. This reminded me a lot of Munich, the area around the olympic stadium […]

One year ago: “Alright, this journal corresponds to a new chapter opening up in my life.” A lot has changed in the last year. A lot more will change over the coming year.

Surviving his irony overdose, Morrisey seeks to take it to another level “…he was briefly suspected of being a terrorist…doubt that’lll cheer him up much”

“Actually, I don’t think that was part of the entry criteria. In fact, if it were they would have turned me away at Narita. If I were trying to communicate with a local person that may require me to speak Japanese. As it is I’m trying to talk to another native English speaker, we’re both […]