Neil Hopcroft

Someones just pointed out the Guildford festival line up….which makes for interesting reading. Highlights include: Wonderstuff, Lightning Seeds, Gary Numan, Stranglers, Billy Idol, Sparks, Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, Hayseed Dixie and Blue Oyster Cult. And given I’m going to be in the area it would seem something of a poor show not to go […]

I’ve uploaded some Practical Mechanics pages. Theres still more to come. If you’d like better quality scans let me know and I’ll send ’em over.

The househunt succeeded yesterday. I found a place in Leatherhead, I’ll be moving in a couple of weeks assuming all the paperwork goes through without trouble. Its a slightly unusual place. More details once everything is sorted.

Monalisa Overboard Love will tear us apart again…and again AntiDRM flash mob I always thought that drum machine was up to no good

Well, a bit north of there, but they are thoughts. I’ve just been to view a building site. Admittedly it is convenient for the station but i’m not sure that makes up for it. Then they tried a bait and switch by showing me a larger flat beyond my budget claiming they couldn’t find the […]

ixaT Automata Doggy bag Hello Kitty wedding…will it last?. Doomed, I tell you – its the end of the world as we know it (warning, crackpot theories based on extraterrestrials communicating through crop circles)

This book is a whirlwind tour through different sales techniques appropriate for different stages of a companies (or products) development. It is built around a tortured analogy of inventing wheels, developing them to be used in different ways, until finally they hit the FMCG end of spectrum. Some of the ideas are nice, we follow […]

This book is quite luminous – at least the edition I was reading, good job you can’t see that while you’re reading it, it’d be most distracting. I was a little disappointed with this book, I’ve read Red Robe, another of his books. Lucifers Dragon seemed far more near-future, with a lot of fairly minor […]

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Househunting – this entry made more for personal reference than the enjoyment of others, though if you have any suggestions for sensible places to live they would be appreciated.