Neil Hopcroft

Last night was Rockabaret at The Cobden Club, for dewdropsglistens birthday. I didn’t quite know what to expect, we had to email our names onto the door list before arriving, which meant that entrance was a little slow because they had to check everybodies names at the door. Once inside, it was up the main […]

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I like Gibsons writing. This book took me a little while to get into, but by the time I did I found it an absorbing read. It is quite a departure from what I consider his normal work, being set more or less in current time. It follows the life of Cayce Pollard and her […]

“And that was how I accidentally killed my last girlfriend” “Indicators of truth which blinker in symmetrical poetry with the rhythmic glare of thy undercar lighting” Lomography Patrik Fitzgerald

GSM Scanner Project – Request For Comments – this looks like a project by enthusiastic but slightly clueless people, or, at least, people outside of the mobile phone industry. If a radio station were a car crash, bad and wrong, but so so compelling. Includes facial exercises and a plea to a kidnapper and a […]

Todays revelation is that not everybody knows that the electricity companies use a Radio 4 sidechannel to broadcast metering information. I thought every techie knew that, but the only reference I managed to turn up in a(n admittedly brief) web search was AMSS – the data rate isn’t high, 46 *bits* per second. Does anyone […]

MOC Car factory – what do you do if you’ve got too many mindstorm lego sets? I’d like to complain about your choir…but thats probably not in the spirit of it. Helsinki is particularly fabulous for the choral take on ‘the nokia tune’. And if you’re in a band, do yourself a favour and make […]

“Creating word-of-mouth marketing” This is an interesting book, written (or at least published) at the height of the dot.com fiasco it takes a look at the way some of the ‘new economy’ was marketing itself. There is an element of hubris to it, that this new way has eclipsed the old way of doing things. […]

So much for feeling more organised this year – its my birthday this weekend and I haven’t gotten around to organising any kind of gathering, I would like you to help me celebrate. I was considering a museum visit during the day then onward to the remains of a board gaming session for the evening. […]

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