Neil Hopcroft

I’ve just discovered Chicks on Speed, specifically “We don’t play guitars”. Howcome I’ve never heard this before, its *FABULOUS*. Enough twittering – bedtime now.

Building the future with Robin. Doesn’t this make us look like a proper startup? Crazy white board, battered laptop, desk full of phones and design documents. Kevin managed to hide from the camera the experimental cable knitting that lives under Robins desk.

A couple of techie questions….does anyone know BREW? Or know someone who knows BREW? Secondly, is anyone aware of an RSS aggregated stream? Something like the Sixapart stream but which is the output from a crawler which cycles through many RSS feeds from all over the net. Does Technorati do something like that? …I couldn’t […]

Hmmm, i wonder what that burning smell is? There’s an electrician outside trying to undo the melting in our supply box, we’re all siting in the dark waiting for him to finish.

Someone has just offered a box of alabaster elephants on the local freecycle list. For some reason this both amuses and pleases me – not that I need elephants, boxed or otherwise, in my life right now, so I’ll let them go to a more appreciative home.

Perfect competition[0] is almost the kind of game I was thinking about – but I’m looking more at something focused on the move from employee to financial independence, rather than the running of businesses themselves. (Incidentally, if anyone would like to join me in economy 2 I’ve made a tin can factory and don’t have […]

Masonry and satanism (more here) Jesus on a Cell Tower Subway maps Mathematics Education in Fiber Arts Chevy Cavalier that has had its seats and controls elevated to a position over the front bumper “Eye of Sauron” Rotating long breakout point Pirate toast Chocolate covered beetle (car) Just In Time watch spray paint art Influences […]

No, really, this is a final test, I’m sure….

Searching for geotagged on livejournal.com yields around 8 entries. Seems like it isn’t quite the great new trend I thought it was. This is good and bad, it means that I’m not very far behind the curve but also means that theres quite limited test data available for my LJ & Multimap mashup (work in […]

A final geotagging test…for the moment at least