Neil Hopcroft

FAO aperrott…Loose Moose

who is about tomorrow for a trip to the seaside? (no poll for this because i can’t remember the syntax to post from email)

Theres something quite wrong about outsourcing your grieving ETA: A response from Surrey Grave Care…which makes me feel like I was being a bit negative above

Picture posted without comment USB Cat Was ist fishloft? Picture brolly Furry necronomicon Van camera

“A critical romp through the terribly libertarian world of high tech” I don’t know what happened to Paulina, but she seems to have suffered somehow at the hands of a someone she thinks represents all techno-libertarians. This book describes the views of a small subset of people who have managed to get the wrong end […]

Note: it would be useful to ask someone to help you at this stage. …in the assembly of your three tier in-tray unit for A4 paper. This phrase is now no longer useful if it is applied in these kinds of situations.

After working yesterday I met up with beermat and company to go see AvenueQ. This is an odd show, a musical, but about people like me. Well, more about what would happen if the Muppets grew up and had to find a job in the real world but its written to feel like its about […]

There was an April Fool report going around a couple of years back that Charlie Stross had transcended. Reading this book you can understand why. Its not particularly well written, in a formal literature sense, but it is full of people, and examines the clash of two very different civilisations. Both significantly advanced from our […]

I know that most of the people who read what I say here are Livejournalers…but do any of you have any thoughts about other ‘blogging’ software? I’m considering setting up another blog covering a specific aspect of things I’m interested in, its inapproriate to be documented here among the useless trivia of my life. So, […]

“You install the codec, and maybe you see the video, and maybe you don’t, but guess what? You’ve been rootkitted! Now, on one level, that’s just the classic bait and switch/ trojan horse scenario, but the _details_ are quite interesting.” Beautiful old wrecks (image heavy, dialup beware)