Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for September 2004

You’re not happy unless you’re causing a scene “Ofcom continues to receive requests for Geographic Numbers to be used for drama purposes. In light of this, Ofcom has set out below a range of Geographic Telephone Numbers recommended for drama purposes (1000 numbers within each Geographic Area Code).”

Home computer “Scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems” Comes with teletype and fortran and everything.

Hitting the ground running…theres nothing to run from (or to) at the moment…7 hours in and I’m up to speed, just spinning wheels now….waiting…

I’m going to be staying on Elizabeth Way[0] in Cambridge this week, I figured it was better to have an uncomplicated week staying in a guest house since its my first week at the new job. Is there anything happening evenings this week in Cambridge? Anyone want to meet up and help save me from […]

This is the news

Truth into doubt won’t go….The Day Today available on DVD at last. Scratch the voda GPRS req from earlier this week – I’ve bellied up and forked out for a pay as you go SIM (on which they’ve yet to enable data handling). Seems you don’t need to give them any details about yourself to […]

Why can’t I read? The tax form says ‘the later of – 3 months after this form is issued or 1 year after the period it is talking about’, which means its not due on Tuesday, but rather in the middle of May next year…I’m so dumb, running around making the accounts up (literally – […]

To lose one handballer would seem careless, to lose a whole team would almost be like they never existed at all. “I am not planning to invite any more teams from Sri Lanka”

“Hi, I’ve heard of warp drive. I love strawberries.”

Welcome to Ely…we have mullets

The mission for the last couple of days has been to find somewhere to live while I’m working in Milton, just outside Cambridge. Yesterday I headed up to have a drive around the area and get some idea of good and bad places to be. How convenient they all are, how well they link up, […]

Anyone in Cambridge (area) got a Vodafone SIM with GPRS enabled?