Neil Hopcroft

Any Cambridge people (or further afield) into web design? – I need a fairly basic (small) corporate website and would appreciate some help from web wizards or artists. I can provide the technical content, I just need a framework to drop it into – indeed, I intend to automate that dropping in, to allow dynamic […]

“Based on experience with two dozen cases of Munchausen by Internet, I have arrived at a list of clues to the detection of factititous Internet claims. The most important follow: 1. the posts consistently duplicate material in other posts, in books, or on health-related websites; 2. the characteristics of the supposed illness emerge as caricatures; […]

“Last Friday I went to the mall to be a Part of the Problem, on this, the busiest shopping day of the year….I went to Dillards and bitched the lady out for not having the right color of perfume! “My girlfriend wants blue, dammit, blue!!” (I don’t even have a girlfriend…)” The site is full […]

It worried me last night. It seems I’m getting worse at holding together a stream of concious thought. I keep going off at tangents, getting distracted, forgetting what I was talking about. In some ways this is good, it makes context switching easier when I’m trying to do lots of things at once. But it […]

“A Danish vendor said Thursday that it has developed a system to create Bluetooth-enabled cows” Some extensions to Service Discovery Protocol needed here, I fear, maybe a milking profile, beef profile, or perhaps an all-in-one bovine profile… …and while we’re on the subject of cows, which came first Bovril or Bovril?

French “…car industry…is now nothing more than a supplier of quality satanic automobiles to the Lizard Alliance” Thankfully my Laguna is too jaded by its life in the UK to attempt such kidnap attempts.

http://www.cutelittlekittens.com/ …thousands of them

Phew, what a struggle…finally got a livejournal server running here… (mod_perl behaves so much better when you don’t install mandrakes enterprise class apache variant) now for curry…

“So, why did I create a whole webpage about my motorcycle? It runs UNIX!” …and creates some fairly tedious videos of the journey to the Burrito store…it’d be potentially helpful in a crash, except I suspect the harddisk’ll get wiped out on the way down. Uncached solid state is the way to go.

Today I went for a whistlestop tour of fenland auction houses – they were confused in Ely, the auction isn’t until saturday, viewing friday. So I explained I saw they said they were an auction house and wondered how it worked. Duly furnished with a catalogue I was sent on my way. There are some […]