Neil Hopcroft

“Conquer your enemies, promote your friends and wage the real art of war” This is a little book which is an incredibly easy read, its a comic management book which starts with the assumption that all management have read, and are implementing the ideas from, The Art of War. It describes how truly ruthless people […]

Hark the filthy angels sing (worksafe) … includes Helen Love doing ‘Merry Christmas I don’t wanna fight’ (which is probably due to the Ramones originally?) mixed with a bit of Super Trooper for good measure, and also a version of ‘Stop the Cavalry’ with Kazoo solo. Shame about the stupid download site but its worth […]

Isuzu do Paris (contrast with Dancing Saabs) “his USB Voodoo Word doll plugs into your computer and, when you stab it with a pin, prompts a great gushing of vicious prose onto the screen” Theres something so beautifully wrong about Heaven 17 covering Don’t fear the reaper

Oh dear, I think I ate too much crystalised ginger. I’m now feeling vaguely nauseous, and every time I lie down I get flashbacks of last nights dream involving saws, which is definitely not good.

I wonder what Christians would make of something like this (NSFW, no nudity per se, but risqué enough to trigger the ‘adult’ flag on youtube) being done to one of their festivals (the tradition its based on is the Mikoshi portable shrine).

Dammit, I’m going to have to give in and put the heating on.

Do you think I should worry that sometimes I worry too much?

War on Terror – the boardgame “Upon investigation of the metal horse, the bomb squad found an unmarked package attached by a magnet.” s/package/geocache/ “Had there been a way to retain the Fiat’s stock looks to complement the American power, we’d be standing up and applauding. However, that didn’t appear to be possible.” Kitty chan […]

“As a devout Christian, I will try my best to be offended as soon as I stop laughing“

For some reason, currently unclear to me, I’ve just been lying in the bath thinking about code defect densities. It started with me thinking about the partner collaboration where my code review showed up something like 600 bugs in 2000 lines of code, thats not counting the generic ‘memory allocation can fail and cause a […]