Neil Hopcroft

I’ve just eaten the first apple from my new tree. Admittedly it wouldn’t pass any supermarket quality control checks, but its all the more *real* for it.

Some days I wish I wasn’t such a klutz. Maybe one day I’ll be able to express myself without sounding creepy and stupid. But in the mean time, please tell me when I do, and explain why, and I’ll try to do it less often.

We thought we’d never sing again, nor light the lamps with our laughter

This is a really cheap book. Its almost like they didn’t bother to proof read it. When was the last time you read a book with two chapter 11s? The story itself is quite disposable, generic sci-fi, it doesn’t have anything to recommend it, but equally, its not totally appalling. It doesn’t seem to correspond […]

Around every hour there is a weird little sound, a bit like pipes expanding or contracting, only more musical. I haven’t traced the source of the sound, I suspect it is computer generated but it doesn’t seem to correspond with any of them trying to tell me anything. Its not an hourly beeper because sometimes […]

What are you protesting? – Parliament Square, 31st Aug, 6pm, find a demonstration you believe in, if you’ve not already applied for yours. Come play with me Smarter than the Nokia battery meter Take it to the next level – Mengers sponge overdrive.

“Our job is to not panic every time two Muslims stand together checking their watches” – go and read Bruces diatribe on handling terrorism…its what I wanted to say but didn’t have the words for. In other news I was greeted with a long face at the garage when I went to pick up my […]

Marketing for geeks This is not the Whitby generation you are looking for Cool ride (escapee from yesterdays vehicular links)

Microcar world Caravan park (erm, park in a caravan) Wholly batcars

I should give out *point*s for identifying song (or sometimes film) references in my posts, shouldn’t I?