Neil Hopcroft

New year, new trouble “BATMAN: NEW TIMES an all new pulse-pounding animated adventure created by students at the DAVE School”

Set in a future where refugees have become such a problem they’ve made a special planet for them. Its a nicely balanced book, with nanotech available but only a few things are computationally powerful enough to deal with the complexities of it, meaning much of the setting is relatively lowtech against a background of high […]

More human than human…”But Hey! He strike a imperial pose. How can you explain he is not GOD?…and GOD never stick out little finger while drinking beer!”

Theres something deeply unsettling about the commerce experience we subject ourselves to these days. The Hampton Harcourt shopping extravagansa is really just a big Tesco, but they’ve invited a whole bunch of chains to join them as consessions in their entrancehall. I was awaiting my companion for the day (having decamped from Peterborough city centre) […]

“Dungeons and Dragons…players are detached from reality and automatically given a low security clearance…The army is not indifferent to the unique hobby and is trying to locate soldiers who in their free time dress up as witches and play in forests.”

Zookeepers Train for Level Three Furry Outbreak

“My story is based on fiction,” said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. “It’s a fake story. I made it up. I’ve been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school […]

I’m aware that a lot of people, when faced with a period of not working, lose their sense of rhythm, they fall into a downward spiral of unstructured, unproductive life. I don’t want to do that. So, although I’m taking some ‘planned downtime’, it isn’t going to be a waste of time. There are things […]

Good grief, when did Linux get difficult to install? First I start with an Ubuntu cd I have to hand, which doesn’t contain gcc. What? Whats that about? What kind of linux user doesn’t want a compiler? And virtual PC is showing pixels three times wider than they should be, which means my 800×600 desktop […]

“According to Rosen, we’re already succumbing to our desire for “constant, escapist fantasy” by favoring passive entertainment to active participation in society. We risk succumbing to a “vast cultural impatience” with anything that doesn’t fit neatly into our narrowly defined parameters….Now iPod users are accused of a similar withdrawal from the world at large. They […]