Neil Hopcroft

I’m considering going walkabout next month – I’m owed some holiday from work and I’m wondering what to do with it.

Nearly ready to launch into the kinds of posts I was really intending to do for this series. But first a few notes. A couple of people have asked about how I arrived at my asset allocation, so I thought I’d lay out what my thinking is. You’ll get different stories about what you should […]

“The secret history of mind control” This is an interesting book, it works its way through a number of attempts at mind control. It covers truth drugs, hypnosis, torture, subliminal advertising and religion. There is a lot of good detail about the background of some of the experiments done by the CIA into finding truth […]

Why have a simple mirror when you could have a technomirror Urbex since the 1970s Automaton for hire Raptop – retro computing comes alive Cyrillic and Qwerty, but I don’t think this ones USB Brians guide to invading a castle Little people

Currently I have three asset classes, in roughly equal measures: property, cash and shares. I don’t own the flat I live in, mostly because I don’t anticipate staying for long enough for that to be worthwhile, this has been the case in most of the areas I’ve lived in. The property is a house in […]

If I were looking for a replacement car, what should I be looking at? What do you drive? What do you love about it? What do you hate? (second hand, price range between 2000 and 6000, depending on how excited I can get about it) …and, no, I’ve not decided this is the right thing […]

This is the first entry of my whitterings about finance – you are able to see this because you volunteered to be on this filter, if that isn’t what you wanted let me know and I’ll change it. Some ground rules: – this is writing by an amateur, nothing here constitutes advice – I’ll mark […]

There’s a beautiful moon out there behind the reflections of the carriage. The guy next to me has brought ‘the taint’ onboard. Drunk people pollute my peace. And everyone elses. Years of uselessness relived in the space of hours. How do i make more time for people?

22Tb Faces in the toast Duck fadar Dining in the dark Euro pop…with guitars