Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for July 2004

It seems i cant use the internet. The 9pm train i’m catching now runs on sundays but not mondays. Might be an interesting journey home…

*phew* made it onto train to tonbridge, with no thanks to the dartford line for running a timetable based on a drunkards walk. Next: packing Time til flight: 15 hours

Some useless facts about caffeine

Plans…they are a-changin…

Well, kinda, the latest is that I’m heading back out to Tokyo on Tuesday. I’ll be in Cambridge tomorrow afternoon – if anyone is about and would like to meet up, give me a call or leave a comment here (but be aware that my email comments, while receivable by mobile phone, are being unreliable […]

We’re on our way to being gods…

This: You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla …should never have happened, there must be something wrong with it.

“I’m on a plane” “It is sometimes possible to make cellphone calls while aboard a plane, but only when travelling at low altitude, in range of cellular network masts….concerns that they might interfere with aircraft electronics….However, American Airlines says extensive testing has so far revealed no interference.”

[Geek] XP/DVD problem

Dunno if anyone can help, but I’ve got a problem with a new machine I’ve just put together. Its based around a little barebones system on an intel 865G chipset with 200Gb SATA disk and DVD-R drive on parallel ATA. Running XP Pro. The system seems to frequently hang when you insert a CD or […]

Plastic surgery disasters

Plastic surgery records are no longer the kind of record company who would publish records by Doctor and the Medics. (though the website also seems somewhat unrepresentative of the dreadful dance record shop I visited this afternoon)

*KOBIORIHJETF1TAQMCKRXU7QTV9BMS4I*

St. Paul never had to worry about fire codes “The Rev. Scott Breedlove, pastor of The Jesus Church, wanted to rekindle that tradition in a July 28 ceremony where books, CDs, videos and clothing would have been thrown into the flames. … “We don’t want a situation where people are burning rubbish as a recreational […]