Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for March 2007

Gripping the wheel, his knuckles went white with desire

Maybe 400 horses is a little much for me, but I’m still looking for something a bit more interesting than my current Laguna. Its been a great car and has lasted way longer than I had expected when I bought it but its now getting to the point where its more crazy than anything else. […]

My decision made at lightning speed

Quite a freeform weekend this week, it started nicely with an unexpected gig – Red Light Company playing at Proud Gallery in Camden Stables Market. They are quite jangly indie with a nice wall of noise guitar thing going on behind the jangle, the myspace songs are fairly representative of their general style. Sadly the […]

Thanks to all who’ve been downloading my eyemag – wrecked exotics is now featured on the site.

Chelsea fail to disguise their work on cyborg fan control.

Devilish Presley in Winchester last night, Matti let me drive his shiny new car down there which has reminded me what its like to get a new car, back to the fun and excitment of fresh new driving experience. Its remarkably large inside considering how small it seems from outside. Nice car, but I didn’t […]

4&25 vict cap 42

Pleased to see Citizen Fish are still going…and playing Leicester in July (though its not mentioned on their site), I hope theres a few more dates.

Book review: Our final century by Martin Rees

This book is a whirlwind tour of all the threats posed to the human race, examining in turn technological, political, natural, scientific and philosophical threats to mankind. It would be easy for this to be a depressing book, but somehow it manages to remain reasonably upbeat, even given its premise that there is a good […]

It’s not like i actually wanted to go home tonight anyway. With thanks to southwest trains for their utterly unflapable inability to run anything resembling a service. Just as i thought things were going well this week because yesterday mornings train ran on time, which already put them ahead on last week. Not to mention […]

Down at work i’m getting too familiar with the floor

Its been a hard week….I’ve finally gotten a release out (its still got a few hoops to go through before it hits the live service, maybe more later if I’m still feeling excited enough about it by the time it hits the air), with a rejection on the final stage of testing because the test […]