Neil Hopcroft

Flickr timegraphs Need a warehouse in state of considerable dereliction? Ate oponents brains and invented cocaine George Washington I am the mighty finder, I can find anything Steampunk keyboard

This is a collection of stories about business failures, they vary in length from a couple of paragraphs to about 20 pages, so there is quite a lot of easy to dip into reading. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t much in the way of analysis of *why* they were failures, rather just […]

Its not every day that I wake up and think “I must go to Andover”. Having now been I think that is probably a good thing. It got off to a bad start when someone aspiring to be an Essex boy tried to scam me for his parking money – the walk from the car […]

With thanks to Marcus Kuhn for his Unicode FAQ….without which I would be even more confused than I am now.

Who in their right mind books a dentist appointment on Monday morning?

I can’t be the only one who wants to add an ‘L’ to that bumper sticker, can I? Could be worse, could be a jag with ‘curse control’. I ate too much chilli. Well, maybe it was just too hot, my face is on fire and I had to sit motionless for a few minutes […]

16 ways to add cheese (worksafe but potentially not earsafe…especially for those of a non-metal disposition)

Little Miss Sunshine: what a fabulous film, dysfunctional family, road movie, darkly hilarious. I can’t explain, just go watch it.

The machine is us, we are web 2.0 2110 – Nokian housebrick advert Cat learns to flush Life, condensed, visualised

And now i’m amusing myself by taking pictures out of the train window… I need a longer exposure setting.