Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for June 2006

Traffic chaos on my doorstep, m25 junction 9. Admittedly in one of its quieter moments. I remember taking hours to get past this spot.

Coffee built entirely by roberts

I’m a bit online again now – I’ve set up the mini in the corner under the stairs running over bluetooth to the cat at the top of the stairs, where there is just about GPRS coverage. I’m going to be a bit hit-or-miss online for the next few days but its better than nothing.

My new garden. Its a no maintenance sitting outside on long summer evenings kinda garden. And this picture doesn’t really do it justice, i can’t get a wide enough angle for that with this phone. You’ll just have to come and see it in person. They’re still finishing the flat, but i’ve got my sleeping […]

This doesn’t make any sense, there’s not much traffic and there’s seats on the train. Can someone check that martians haven’t killed the entire population of leatherhead?

Ok, i’m officially bored now. I caught the 733 train from waterbeach. 1000 and We’ve just arrived at welwyn north. Its going to be a long day.

Someone made wikimapia…what I want to do now is to hook into that from my mobile phone, but I get a ‘The application is running out of memory’ error when I try it, I guess google earth is too big for my phone. Maybe I need to disect the protocol a bit to try to […]

Its wrong to wish on space hardware

Thats something I’m going to miss about living this far north, even now the sky is a beautiful graduation of shades of purple and blue, with a chink of near daylight in the northern corner, the moon halo’ed in the atmospheric diffraction, but also somehow very much in focus. One day I will live further […]

This morning I was trying to catch the tube to Earls Court – I was waiting on the blue line platform, they were having signalling problems so things were running a bit slowly and there were a lot of people about. Finally a train arrived, and we all started piling on, there was quite a […]