Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for November 2006

Confirmation: Developer of the year: Refresh Mobile, Ltd. Mobizines

Oh dear, I’m feeling restless tonight. Maybe its the rumours coming in from Amsterdam, maybe its something else. No details yet, of course, just a text message, its not hit the blogs as far as I can see, and I’m not going to add fuel to that fire until I see it confirmed. Instead, let […]

Book review: Release 2.0 by Esther Dyson

“A design for living in the digital age” This is now quite an old book – a lot of it is still pertinant but I wish I’d read it ten years ago. Dyson is clearly someone who gets it, she understood a lot of the potential of the internet way before most people out there. […]

OK, I feel a different kind of stupid now….I guess that shows that you don’t need to be drunk to get home at 4am and pour your heart out on this thing. It would be oh so easy to press the ‘delete post’ button, but that seems like editing history, a betrayal of the me […]

The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had

Maybe “Wonderful way to go” wasn’t the best choice of music for my journey home tonight. “Tell me your story, tell me no lies; we touch each other – but only with our eyes. Some kind of game, to play with desire; it’s just beneath the skin that I’m alive.” Today I feel stupid. She’s […]

Some pictures from my trip around Scotland

Whats this?

I’ve finally gotten an MT blog set up for some of the software development thoughts I’m thinking and need to get out of my head to somewhere where they might be useful. To go with it I’d like to make a media gallery, primarily photos at the moment but ideally something that’ll handle other media […]

Given that its gone rainy, its time to head home now. Just one final castle. Blackness.