Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for October 2005

bleh, i’ve just been woken up by the citilink man trying to deliver my cables – of course he didn’t wait for long enough for me to get downstairs so now I’ve been woken up earlier than anticipated *and* not got my cables to play with. grrr. But at least I can go out ‘cos […]

part time/evening/weekend jobs London: Potential Flirters needed for feedback

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The world is enough Flying high, falling far Shame these don’t project – the ultimate drive-in. For those who remember the 888 – how times change. Spalding launches John Peel Commemorative Tulip

Hmmm…this is an interesting security risk….I was making an instruction submission to my stockbroker earlier through their ‘secure email gateway’ on the their website. I’ve just received a bounce message from that submissision to the email address they have for communicating with me. What has happened is that their web gateway is set to package […]

This is scary (warning: contains picture of goths, do not click if you are of a nervous disposition or otherwise weak constitution)

Last night I went to beermats housewarming party, down in Woking. I was there early having gotten myself lost in the wrong bit of Woking – too much reliance on technology, I had no backup plan for when my navigation system didn’t know about his road, so had to phone to get directions. Twice. It […]

I’ve got mice. I’ve just been through my ‘big box of junk’ since it had gotten too heavy and was making my shelves fall over, lurking at the bottom of it were mice, six of them, in various incarnations from the oldstyle Microsoft inport busmouse all the way through to PS2. So if anyone can […]

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“Censored 2006 from Seven Stories Press features the 25 most important news stories not covered by the corporate media in 2004-05. Government Secrecy, Media Failures in Iraq, National Voter Fraud, Citizen Surveillance, and Environmental disasters are just some of this year’s topics.” “Visitor can interupt them by sending SMS message from mobile phone to a […]