Neil Hopcroft

Happily some of the tension I had feared from a conversation on Tuesday night wasn’t present…there was no need for tension in the first place and I was annoyed with myself for letting it get that way… Today I was struck by a distinct change in clientel at Tescos while I was buying lemsip for […]

“Create a no-win situation for anti-choice protesters — the more picketers who demonstrate outside a Planned Parenthood clinic, the more donations the Planned Parenthood clinic receives.” Someone buy this man a playstation. “We looked at each other, took a deep breath, and launched the application. The monitor burst into flames….This doesn’t suck” “mysterious cloud formation […]

“This will change the way people drink coffee” “To be frank, the cold pasteurised lattés on offer today taste like sick, and there’s little reason to suppose a self-heating version will be any more appetizing.”

…can you guess which I’m going to be doing…?

Third rate tobacconist steals PIN data The reason, apparently, that ‘Chip and PIN’ is important is that it shifts the liability in case of fraud. If you are signing for transactions then it is the bank (or the shop) checking the signature against the card. It is far more difficult to claim fraud in case […]

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“Despite an hours-long search Tuesday night, the bag, containing a fake bomb complete with wires, a detonator and a clock, made it onto an Amsterdam-bound flight” Its interesting to think about screening in the light of the book I’m reading at the moment – Reckoning with Risk, Learning to live with Uncertainty. The book describes […]

“I can see cell-phone vibrators opening the doors for people who are otherwise embarrassed about sex toys.” …I wonder how you get to be on the team writing device drivers for them? …brings a whole new meaning to ‘having a deep personal raport with the testing team’.

“According to research by card provider Visa, 20% of people are not using their pin because they haven’t memorised it.” I already have a head full of numbers, there isn’t space for any more. Someone helpfully pointed out that it was just four digits, but what they hadn’t realised was that I’ve already remembered something […]

Today I’m officially freaked out. I received a communication from an ex of mine after my posting about the Army gig last night. The reason I’m freaked out is that we’ve not really communicated for nearly 8 years and we didn’t exactly part on good terms at the time. However, I think I’ve changed a […]