Neil Hopcroft

Back in England now, so I’m gonna be missing the debut of this flying robot. Dammit. More update later.

Busy couple of weeks – no time for detail right now. Flying back to UK today, arrive Heathrow 1715. Beyond that and the Rome Burns gig, saturday, there isn’t much of a plan.

Get your shorts in, time for a raindance.

A fairly geeky wedding

Whats in a colour? “Mr Haji-Ioannou said he was prepared to go to court to defend his company’s use of the colour orange. “I’m quite happy to see them in court,” he told the BBC. “I don’t believe they have a case.” “

Stamp collecting will never be the same again… “Stamps.com…launched PhotoStamps about a week ago and has been receiving submissions ever since.” All hail the Brazilian gods of caffeinated beverages… Although the Mosquitos saga turns out to be an urban myth

“RFID passive tags and readers that can be used to monitor vehicles at a read distance of 17 feet traveling at speeds of 160 mph” … brought back some memories of designing such a system ten years ago, we never completed it because we never got the funding we needed, and the technology at the […]

Official: Buffy the Vampire Slayer “not sufficiently explicit or graphic to be indecent….no nudity, and…no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon, or was used to pander, titillate or shock the audience”. …we can only hope they do a better job next series…