Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for July 2006

… And i just got a knork with my chips, but they’re too hot to eat so i’m waiting for them to cool a bit.

Wot nots fans. Imagine the beard and beergut for the full effect. Just as the band came on stage a photographer with a huge nose leapt in front of me, peering awkwardly into his viewfinder. Still, i’m not arguing with the surreal cross dressing punk description they were given.

Sparks at guilfest

Flower Macs C5, in metallic red, with performance USB stalker accessories Demon duck of doom Interactive floor

To the guy in the little Peugeot who tried to road rage me on the M4 tonight… …if you’re going to do that, first you need to learn to drive, then you need to learn what the limits of your car are. The reason I slowed down in the first place was because there were […]

Technorati made me do it

Linkblast

…and a few more that escaped the last round: How to be a convincing time traveller Theme park decay MRI remixed Seamless pictures Choose your apocalypse

Book review: War of the Worlds by HG Wells

It is interesting reading this book now that I’ve moved to the area in which much of it is set – the descriptions make it seem very much more rural than the sprawling commute belt I know. While the story is familiar, from the Jeff Waynes version, the book gives a very different feel to […]

I’d forgotten how nice the drive up the M40 to Oxford can be. Its a shame, then, that it was preceded by a queue on the M25. 25 minutes to move one junction, how do people tolerate that on a regular basis? This years Venturefest was at the Said Business School, next to the station. […]

Linkblast extra

(Recovering from a couple of weeks on the end of dialup here is an extra large set of links) Bentley loses its way Censored (worksafe) None more Kitty Geek cruises Cats that look like Hitler More USB wearables Light-pick – imagine this mated with some POV writing, it’d only take a small accelerometer and bluetooth […]