Neil Hopcroft

Gods, I hate being socially awkward….apart from the associated embarrassment the Calling was good, hope all others involved have mostly recovered now… I’d forgotten just how horrible *smokey* atmospheres can be, somehow it was really noticable this week but I don’t think it was any worse than normal. Accidentally danced to Nick Cave and Ministry, […]

“This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered”

“85 per cent of consumers admit to being ‘too dumb’ to access or use mobile services due to increasing device complexity.” Or did they get sold up to a handset that exceeds their requirements?

The Register today urged readers to “strongly consider running an alternative browser (to Internet Explorer), at least until Microsoft deals with the issue.”…following an IFRAME exploit it hosted.

The death of the video cassette recorder appears to be in sight after the UK’s largest electrical chain said it is to stop selling them. Oh, and if anyone comes across “extreme theme.sis” in their travels I’d be interested if you could forward me a copy…

Have you ever bought something, excitedly unpacked it when you get home only to discover that it has a ridiculous defect which prevents it from actually being useful? I’m looking for (true) stories about problems with high-tech products – what kinds of problems annoy you most? Is there something you no longer use because the […]

“They could have booked Cliff Richard. How boring would that have been?”

Anyone know anything about the bitrot characteristics of flash memory? Or where I can find out such information?

“Ok, put down your soldering iron, turn off your spectrum analyzer, and let’s play chess“

Tonight I headed (along with simonsatori and meme_me) over to a lecture at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy (CIA?) about binary star systems. We knew we were in the right place when we found a bunch of geeky types hanging around in the lobby outside the lecture theatre. The lecture was quite nicely presented, but […]