Neil Hopcroft

“hi, i’m an American jerk.” – Tokyo Damage Report is back.

“Let me get this straight… you’re planning a major software release, a hardware upgrade and a minor release for code that hasn’t been written yet in the next three weeks and you don’t think theres any risk in shpping for our customers to hit the shops before christmas?”

Share portfolio 1 Month change: +1.74% FTSE: +1.55% 12 Month change: +19.71% FTSE: +14.76% 12 Month yield: 1.57% Top performer: nCipher +11% Worst performer: Evolution -10% The most exciting thing this month was the announcement of a special dividend by Amstrad – the price fell 12% as it went ex-dividend, but given that the payment […]

This is a fairly generic ‘management improvement book’, they all claim they can help you improve the way you do things or the way you think about things. They mostly just contain the same dross wrapped up in different ways. This is no different, it concentrates on problem identification and solution, but theres no new […]

Saint or sinner? (mp3 player) Froggy takes one step at a time 512 Very Reduced Instruction Set Cores

First, a big *THANK YOU* to Damian for driving me home last night – I’m so used to the Underworld where doors at seven means ‘kicking out at 10 so we can run another club after’. I got to Camden early so I could take a proper look around and get lost in the market […]

Its so easy to spook yourself walking a moonlit path, isn’t it? Especially when you can feel the eyes of the works following you, a shadowy figure disappearing into the darkness along their boundary. Still, its quite a view from up here and there’s noone else watching. Everything is distant, so the sound and the […]

I think my reality just slipped. Back soon. Maybe.

What a beautiful spring morning? A touch of frost in the air, enough to wake you up but not enough to make you cold. Bright blue sky full of aeroplanes heading to wonderful exciting foreign places. Shame its november, isn’t it?