Neil Hopcroft

I’ve just noticed trying to type ‘Vauxhall’ into the predictive text on my phone gives ‘tat?’, maybe I should ask my phone what car I should buy next? Does anyone else use their predictive text to predict other aspects of their life?

“Impatient with speed of light, make it a bit faster….Couldn’t find novelty, oversized ‘Hand of God‘ giant foam hand, Remembered left it…behind singularity”

“Improper use of cola might result in blunt trauma, puncture wounds, physical illness, mental illness, caffeine dependency, dental necrosis, acid reflux, death, devastation, and random tax audits. Or it might not….OpenCola soda is distributed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL)”

Today, on my walk to the office, I found some bollard polishers. I don’t remember seeing anyone cleaning them before, but I assume there is a long history of such undertakings by the highways agency. Good work, lads, keep ’em clean.

“Weightwatchers On-the-Go – there’s plenty of SyncML Data Sync and client deployment wizards in there to help People of Size™ find the thin person within.”

Historic Underground picutres

It seems I accidentally had a phone interview this morning for a job in ‘the M3/M4 corridor area’….not quite sure how that happened, since I’m supposed to be taking a break when I finish my current position at the end of the month. Today the results of an ’employee satisfaction survey’ were made available. Clearly […]

I love spam. And hate it at the same time. How else could you ever expect to encounter someone called ‘Elmo Tent’? The theme of the moment seems to be food – yesterday we went to Pop Bellies in Huntingdon (ulfilias, I need an up-to-date number for you, the one I have starts 0171, a […]

Wow, there really is quite a lot of weather outside today. Its days like this that one particularly appreciated the neighbours windchimes in their cacophonic glory, Mozart would never have thought of that.