Neil Hopcroft

Yellow Everything sounds yellow Why are they demolishing the world, its only 8-oclock in the morning I want to be asleep (my thoughts on waking up, coherency achieved in 1hr30, not bad for a tuesday)

“SO HIS ROCK AND ROLL DREAMS COULD NEVER START AND ALL HE HAD LEFT WAS BIG HAIR AND A BROKEN HEART.” Not the Lint I was looking for…

Feeling a bit stupid today – I think I must’ve spent too much time in the sun yesterday, wandering around the French market in Ely. Not quite sure howcome I caught the sun so bad, I spent loads of days under the blistering sun in Tokyo without any such problems. Dammit. Still, its not all […]

“The club has been very well managed with Michael Spooner in charge and I am inclined to steal his ideas as they worked so well. Don Humphries was the highest scorer with 758 points for 2 games. Phew.” Don’t you love village news-sheets?

“Our demographic data on a little strip of laminate Could be available to those who’d pay just to examine it” Flash sillyness, and watch out for the pants. Worksafe.

Чернобыль. Нечаянный фоторепортаж, ч.2 …some beautiful photos of urban decay Charlie Stross transcends again – to the creative commons this time… The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. “The Heads Up Display (HUD) unit seems like a frivolous item, but I found myself enjoying the digital display, especially for the XM […]

What do you get if you click here? What browser do you use? (this is hosted on my machine here and I’m trying to diagnose a redirect weirdness…but I don’t know if everyone is seeing it, or if its just me?) Edit: problem now understood, but solution will have to wait until I’ve got a […]

Welcome to eGovernment. Its a place where it takes hours to find the page you want, because the Tax people aren’t listed in the A-Z index under either Tax or Inland Revenue, they’ve reorganised into a different letter (they’re now Revenue and Customs), so noone can find their website. Then, once you’ve found the site […]

“The age of biological control by the scientists who cloned Dolly.” This book follows the story of the team who made Dolly, the sheep. From the early attempts, through a series of incorrect theories about what was and was not possible, to their eventual understanding of the necessary nuclear transfer process and finally the creation […]

Its toast…in the post Although I was considering changing my car, I think “BOEING 727 JET LIMO CONVERTED FOR STREET USE” would probably be going a little far…