Neil Hopcroft

“Beautiful new look of nose Be a Cleopatra’s nose Indispensible for your beautiful nose You wouldn’t miss a chance”

Does anyone know anything about mapping and/or geographical data representations? Specifically I’m looking for some maps in an open vector map format, ideally one that is chunkable for piecemeal download over a GPRS connection, scales reasonably easily and is handlable by midrange mobile phones. The format is the important bit for the moment, the maps […]

I’ve been a bit lax on my book reviews of late – theres a little bit of a backlog, which I’ll try to clear over the next few days. Junk is a book I bought some time ago on the strength of its cover – pure white, showing the works of an addict. Theres something […]

A long shot – does anyone know of a freely downloadable Bluetooth HCI emulator? I’ve got a VM with a program that talks serial line (BCSP, though I believe H4 is an option) HCI to a device on a serial port, which I’m connecting via a named pipe to the VM host – I’d like […]

Cylindricals, conics, azimuthals, and others – all the map projections you can use. “Midget Dressed as Santa Disembowels Carmelite Nun with Teeth” “Jesus on Cheese” – demoscene divx’d

Attempt one. Minor sealing issue. Lid depth excessive. Sugar caramelisation failed.

Coca-cola not Pepsi – nice to see adding spoonful of instant coffee to pep up your already caffeinated fizzy beverage has seeped back into the corporate conciousness. “Peoples, watch brand new super quality video from album ‘back from the futer’” Deresolution Geophotos Sing for me, Roomba, sing for me.

The clouds obscuring the moon are blowing from the Arctic. Theres a chill in the air. Not enough for snow, yet, though. The flights in the distance climbing into the ceiling, up beyond the layer of cloud, to pure night beyond. They’re heading east, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, for a new tomorrow, sunrise over Ulan […]