For lunch today I went to the Tescos Ultra at Bar Hill. Where I discovered most of the population of Cambridge and sandwiches in singing christmas packaging. To start with the car park is full of people trying to park as close to the store doors as is possible, so nearly half the carpark is […]
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Archive for November 2005
Grandi: You’re bouncing.
“I decided to tackle another Lego challenge: a medium format Pinhole Lego Camera” The output is not quite SLR quality.
Is anyone using IssueCrawler? Its a system that compiles aggregate data about a particular issue into a form which can be easily visualised – so, say you were searching for information about the WTC attacks on Sept11th it would give you a (logical) map of how a number of sites link together allowing you to […]
Cell processor SDK…I’ve not had a chance to play with this yet, nor do I have a PS3 to test anything on, but it looks like it might be an interesting project. btw, can anyone think of a sensible use for a 4Mb ECC RAM stick? (found shortly after thinking ‘ouch whats that scratchy thing […]
Should I buy one of these? Its a WorkInProgress on the OpenWRT site…
I turned up during Global Noise Attacks set at last nights gig in the Man on the Moon. They’re kinda fun but rather more, erm, on display than necessary…still, I’m guessing it can get pretty warm on stage even in the winter. Next up were Rome Burns, who seem to have forgotten to invite Captain […]
Its a bad thing when you are woken up by configuration management nightmares, isn’t it? “Just /how many/ configurations do you want to maintain? In CVS? With a team of 20 developers?”
Is it time for reinvention, is it time to move along…?
I wrote a long and confused entry trying to explain the quietness happening here. I can’t. Its just the way it is. I’m not feeling particularly engaged with the world at the moment, like I’m not really a part of society any more. Like I don’t have anything useful to contribute, but equally, like it […]
Gods Plastic Railway, and other stories from Eastfield (contains innovative use of different formats to reduce accidental downloading of the whole trilogy)