Neil Hopcroft

Any Java and/or Flash developers out there interested in making us a game?

Last nights gig at Southampton was an unusual affair – it was in a rock pub somewhere on the outskirts of the town. The venue is quite nice in a pub-with-backroom kind of way, nice large stage so you don’t have to put the guitarist in the audience because he doesn’t fit on stage. I […]

Todays fashion tip: don’t mix mohawk and underpants.

“For professional Funeral Directors wishing to enhance their service we provide unique and tasteful motorcycle hearses” This one goes up to 13

I’ve just tagged all my book reviews, so the following are available for borrowing should you be interested (I think a couple of them belong to evilmattikinz but I’m not sure I can remember which ones, and I’m sure he’d be happy to let you borrow them anyway):

Theres something easy about reading Coupland. His work is quite disposable at some level but at another it describes people who are enough like me that I can feel myself being drawn into their world. This book takes us into the world of a games development company, with a small group of six developers stuck […]

What kind of person reads “Neurolinguistic Programming for Dummies” on the train? In unrelated news, I’m feeling a bit stupid today. I managed to scrape the side of my car on the fencepost at the back of my flat last night. The parking area is a bit on the small side and there are now […]

“Saturday morning John Doran, of Baraga while measuring lumber, was suddenly taken with a fit and fell into the lake and was drowned” Not quite ZZ9 Slashcast (if you don’t know what thats likely to be you probably don’t want to follow the link – passed on for the sheer wrongness) The rocketbelt convention Brief […]

Whos up for the Screaming Banshee Aircrew gig in Southampton on Sunday?

No major casualties at saturday nights party, except for a little overenthusiasm with the packaging tape. Not enough food, and not organised enough to sort out what there was. The party bifurcated somewhat when someone found the source code for CP/M (admittedly a ROM based version, not disk based so the bootstrapping is somewhat different). […]