Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for December 2004

Linkblast

“In evidence of his “craziness,” Charlton offers this picture of a Newton resting against a headstone marked “Newton.” (Apple Computer “killed” the Newton in 1998)” “We really believe that once you’re in a city, there’s no better way to experience it than walk around it and listen to stories and be able to see the […]

Someone else has been flying puppies, I don’t feel quite so bad now.

One for the ?

Fancy a smoothie? (not worksafe, I feel…unclean, blame jwz)

Never trust a barber with a mullet

I started the weekend as I often do, running late. I still arrived earlier than I was expected, and met our companion on the steps of redkitty23s flat. So we got talking and waited for our hostess to arrive. The three of us headed out to Blenheim Palace to see it ‘dressed for christmas’, which […]

I’m coming to the end of the Shadow of the American Dream, what do I read next? I’ve got three shelves full of books I’ve not read yet, but I’ve narrowed it down to a choice of three for the moment, but which should it be?

“Tempest for Eliza is a Program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio….the problem is i cannot use the time when the electron beam does the blanking and retrace phase” and “Can you read this? This image was captured with the […]

Any Oxford people got crash space I could use tomorrow night?

“William Heath, is… creating an online Kafkaesque nightmare” and a nice rant about the efficiency of the government, from a voice on the inside…