Neil Hopcroft

Shame its not an electric blanket

There was me happily thinking that it was just historically important places like Cambridge which had parking problems on saturdays – how wrong? Who visits Hitchin on a saturday, more importantly, who drives there? Well, us, but we’re the good guys, aren’t we? So I’ve got one message for the great unwashed[0]: – don’t drive […]

finalgoodbye.ppt – “If the subject matter weren’t so heavy, we’d probably use it to train his replacement”

Any Oxford people going to be about Sunday lunchtime? (considering a plan, nothing solid yet, depends how lively I’m feeling and if Grandi can rustle up some of the usual suspects)

Further to yesterdays thoughts – anyone know what the visa requirements for either USA or Canada are? (I hold a standard, machine readable, UK passport with no complications) I’ve found a return to New York for around 150quid (ex taxes, I presume) and wondered whether I could take advantage of it….

I’ve been thinking about holidays. More specifically I was poking around at Expedia to see what they could do for getting me to Fiji next month, but I hadn’t reckoned on 40 hours of plane-y badness, thats rather more than my jetlag addiction can sensibly cope with. So maybe I need to go somewhere that […]

From “low-hanging fruit” I passed on less than a week ago to: “…reports last week that the on-board computers of several Lexus models in the United States had been infected via cellphones….Melamed said about 150 000 cars in the US had been affected last week….Many of the vehicles also had their security codes breached” …in […]

“garisen – one who is physically attrected to thin people” What kind of an insult is that?

“Given all this I feel it best I step away from this role at this time, to allow you…to find someone more able to fulfil the current needs.” …with which I hope to become ‘resting’ for a while after the begining of March. Anyone else need a holiday?

“During the party we will visualize the party’s music with Arcade in realtime. We will also allow the VJ to mix live on the facade. The installation becomes a part of the party, the party becomes a part of the installation” …don’t think much of the resolution, but its a bit bigger than my monitor…