Neil Hopcroft

I’m going to assume this, from Cotterell, was in response to yesterdays conversation rather than my plea for washing machine help… While we’re at it, anyone care to comment on welding machines?

I’m gonna have to buy a washing machine. No more handwash. Now, I’ve been looking (a bit) over the last few weeks and they all seem rather overspecified for what I need of them – I just want a door I put dirty clothes in and remove clean clothes from, and, maybe, a button to […]

Whats that noise, punk?

At midnight, local time on November 1, begin writing your novel. Your goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight, local time, on November 30th.

Further to yesterdays speculation “Surprisingly, none of the coverage that we have seen to date has considered the possibility that it might be a well executed scheme aimed at increasing international awareness of the site.” The performance report does, however, suggest there was a significant spike in response times just before the site went off […]

Can anyone see this? I’m getting access denied, as expected. What is so great on there that us, non-americans, are not allowed to see it? This disturbs me too – we don’t torture people, just send them somewhere where they might… As does this – $25,000 each, thats pretty good going, wonder when that’ll be […]

http://www.informa.com/eventsolutions/home.html encourage spamming. They’re an exhibition and conference organiser who don’t respect the “Don’t pass on my email address” box they give you when signing up for the events they organise. Don’t give them your real email address.

I’m sure that playing “Teenage kicks” at the Calling tonight was deliberate – so I took it as tribute to John Peel, which obviously required dancing. I was amazed to see the number of people commenting on his death earlier, I knew he was important to people who were serious about music, but I’d never […]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm “John Peel was a broadcasting legend. I am deeply saddened by his death…John’s influence has towered over the development of popular music for nearly four decades.”

What if the highly recommended cafe you decided to take someone special to was closed on the day you go? What if you ended up walking all over town to find somewhere else? What if the place you chose served mediocre food in a smoky non-smoking area? What if you then couldn’t find coffee afterwards? […]