Neil Hopcroft

What happens next? Who can say? Its been a day of two halves, one upside one down. Right now down is winning. Still, like last time, I can take this as an opportunity to spectate on the demise of others, happy in the knowlege that I can jump ship when necessary.

My expectation, when selecting this book, was that I would be reading another account of the life of a drugged out hippy. This is very far from what it contains. Its a little oddly laid out, with two parallel stories in the first half, Leary as a troublemaker in the army and his joining Harvard […]

(bearing in mind that it takes me a while to read about these things, none of this information in new, its based on things that have been available for a few weeks now) Only two potentially interesting things this week. Tanfield group, the milk float maker have recently launched a 7.5 tonne delivery truck aimed […]

(Geekery warning, worksafe) This is somewhat perverse – what kind of person builds a 120Tb array from 250Gb disks without understanding what they’re doing? Thats 640 disks, which I reckon will give you a failure rate of about 1 per day on average, but they’re likely to be bunched somewhat since they’re almost certain to […]

This is not a photo opportunity And I thought I was having a bad week with trains Cats up to mischief Bet this doesn’t play MP3s Office machine

Sarah is the Irish schoolgirl who shot to fame in 1999 when she created a new crypto algorithm. The algorithm has since been attacked to the point where it is not considered useful. The book is about her exploration of number theory, what happened when she worked with Baltimore, the crypto company, and where that […]

My next car? (sense of personal danger not included, steering has its own character) Lego flamethrower

I’ve not got the hang of them at all.

Light bulb bulb Cats on treadmills Undersound

Beaten by Nordic weather – but never mind, we’re adding more functionality for next years entry. My bit isn’t available yet…I’ll let you know when it is.