Neil Hopcroft

Theres still hope for us non-world-class programmers….indeed, this article (and presumably the book it is talking about too) reflects some of my views on development teams – that they should be structured to create an effective whole team, and that people fitting into the team is more important than each of the members being stars. […]

What am I bid for 40 Pounds Assorted Nail Clippers? …and I wonder if they’ll fly them over here…?

Anyone got any experience of this FPGA devkit, or anything like it? Worthwhile? Alternatives?

I’ve just been reading about cars. Every week there is an article in the local free paper about how many accidents there have been on the A14 this week. Three serious ones this week. Howcome? I mean its not a particularly unusual piece of road, is it? Its busy, true, but not otherwise exceptional. And […]

Its a small world (10Mb quicktime video, with potentially non-work-safe joke about there being plenty of room in the bottom…)

OK, I’ve got my stupid head on again this morning….I’m playing with samba, trying to edit perl scripts on my linux/apache server from my windows desktop, everything is fine except one thing[0], whenever I save from the windows box I lose the execute permission and have to go chmod it again before the server will […]

“My UPS truck went into a ditch and all I got was this lousy sewing machine!”

If architecture were a religion…

“The Time Traveler Convention May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees) We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it […]

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