Neil Hopcroft

Today I learned more about the dark underbelly of Cambridge culture. South, heading upstream from Baits Bite Lock, beyond the A14 bridge. The first exit from the towpath back into ‘civilisation’ takes a cut across the fields to Fen Road. Its an innocent looking road on the map, isn’t it? But no, that is not […]

This morning I woke to someone outside shouting “Get inside, I’ve had just about enough of you” in a Crass accent. …by which I mean the kind of northern accent that I associate with poetry like this: “Don’t take any notice of what the public think, They’re so hyped up with T.V., they just don’t […]

The good news is that its not Rome Burns that were the cause of my concerns from the gig last week….storming gig in Sheffield last night. It helped that the room was nicely set up for live shows, the stage being a lot higher than the normal six inches you get in the corner of […]

“this year’s most important fashion statement – Duct Tape is my life“

Anyone know of a good diffing tool that’ll produce nice-ish html output? I’ve used BeyondCompare previously which is OK, but are there other similar tools? (this is intended to fit into a build farm system to create automated diffs of build logs, GUIs are certainly non-essential)

If you wanted to feed ducks in north cambridge, where would you go? Feeling somewhat guilty about generating hundreds of slices of stale bread for landfill and considering better uses for them – which I guess is really the problem I’m trying to solve.

Anyone got any recommendations for a bike shop in Cambridge? I’m after a decent quality entry level pushbike, plus lock and hat and lights, plus whatever else I need. Would probably prefer to go to a local independent shop rather than a big chain, but I’m not very bothered. Its been 10 years since I’ve […]

“…thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh, they’re talking about my burrito‘”

Thetford today. They seem to have obfuscated the town centre for some reason, I drove all the way through the place without seeing one sign to the centre. Eventually I followed something called “Services vehicles only” and found a car park. Its an odd little place, full of bad quality stone buildings dating from early […]

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