Neil Hopcroft

What am i doing still here? Shoreham. This is the place i grew up, the layout of the roads is different but the people are the same. there’s a whole beautiful exciting world out there and i’m stuck in a bit i know. Get me out.

I approve of Councils putting their GIS systems online. Nothing so useful for Mole Valley of course.

I think I did too much thinking too close to sleepytime.

Happy birthday to The Picadilly Line, 100 today and still as efficient as ever.

My earlier blog query was prompted by a mail from our marketing department wanting to know if we knew of any ‘opinion forming blog sites’, to which my response was ‘I know exactly what their opinion would be, so I’m not going to enter this discussion’….which was seen as somewhat negative by our CEO. So […]

Name some blogs you trust to give you good opinions about tech, gadget and phone products and software.

This book follows the story of the life of the famous equation, describing a little about its ancestors (each of e, =, m, c and squared), how Einstein put them all together, and the life the result took on after he had. It describes a lot about the research done during wartime, explaining how the […]

The people of Tokyo should construct a giant building shaped like Godzilla Doritos on the shore Handy car doctor Just what the voices in your head always wanted Now you can play Dilbert for pleasure as well as work.

A quick note of congratulations to my car for passing its MOT today with only advisories on the brakes, which I got fixed even though they weren’t failures – it seemed like the kind of thing that was worth fixing especially if the MOT itself wasn’t going to be expensive. So no emergency new car […]

I’m amused by the idea that Winterkalte ‘Maximum credible accident’ leaking from my headphones at the office sounded like birds chirping….its very good coding music but it doesn’t sound much like birds from inside the ‘phones.