Neil Hopcroft

This morning was spent mostly listening to New Model Army, apparently one of the favorite bands of one of my colleagues. I’d not had him marked as a cloggy somehow, but apparently he shared a house with some of them while he was studying in Bradford (or something). Not sure how this went down with […]

Combining: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,66146,00.html http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0705/web-finger-07-06-04.asp We get some interesting numbers… 47,000,000 fingerprint records of ‘undesirables’ held by FBI 118,000 visitors to the US 99.6% match accuracy for two finger test against a single print (I’m going to assume false positive and false negative rates are the same since the stats don’t actually show that) So, 4 people […]

“Noodling is an ancient fishing method in which the fisherman wiggles his or her hand underwater near a bed of fish in hopes that a catfish will bite or, even better, swallow his hand” (from jwz, again, perhaps of interest to edling who might need to know that noodling is currently illegal in Missouri…but probably […]

I’ve been pondering trying to consolidate my pension provision (I have about five little pensions, each representing something around two years of contributions, none of which are really worth anything on their own), so I’m trying to figure out what I should do…I’m tempted by the concept of SIPP, but I don’t think the pot […]

Its amazing what you can see if you’ve already decided what you’re looking at, isn’t it? I was accused, earlier this evening, of sneaking some items into the previous buyers shopping….as if I’d choose that non-name junk if I thought I wouldn’t have to pay for it? Pah! Sadly he’d failed to notice there was […]

“Always buy a cheap camera with a big traveler’s check at a drug store” she tells me. “That will be so obviously a tourist move they won’t even look twice. Take pictures, but not of anything that will identify where you are. Don’t even play around with that. A street sign in the background, the […]

“At first there were just a few isolated reports, but soon the nation was in the grip of an epidemic of exploding trousers” (sadly only a partial article available online – evilmattikinz might be interested in finding out some more while he’s in the area?)

One for the conspiracy theorists: N379P

Game reserves, dovecots, towers, fishing rights, theatres, and odd items for sale. “the safest house in Britain…an ordinary-looking 4 bed bungalow on the outside, but beneath is a nuclear bunker” or anyone want to go halves on “74 foot concrete water tower with outline planning permission for a commercial recording studio”?

Just trying out the picture hosting…