Neil Hopcroft

So I managed to forget to tell you about some of the excitment of the easter weekend…we got back to the car after our meal on Friday night to find that the carpark had been locked. What kind of council locks its car parks at 10:30? Especially if its still got cars in? There was […]

(which could almost be a Widdy-of-the-week, were it not for the faff)

8-bit tie – this is higher resolution than i remember from those days. No music came on. He dug around in the pockets where he kept the iPod and pulled out the twisted hunk of metal that is in the pictures Where bill? Trams? We laugh at your puny trams

I’m on Rails. Modulo a rather unexpected crashing of the OSX UI when I typed ‘sudo kill 1’ by accident – it *really* shouldn’t respect that (I was trying to kill background process 1, not process 1). Lunch now.

How difficult can it be? I’m now on the fourth machine….two windows boxes failed to install the Ruby mysql connector (admittedly one of those was cygwin, therefore not really expected to work), the linux box wouldn’t even get as far as Ruby (as an aside, I’ve managed to mangle my apt-get to a point where […]

Anyone know anything about Ruby on Rails?

A weekend away celebrating Simons aging, we headed to a small cottage between Glastonbury and Wells. There were five of us, Simon, Adelle, Matti, Stoo and me. Its a part of the world I don’t know too well, having driven past a number of times without actually stopping, so it was nice to have a […]

Virgin Radio is sapping my will to live.

Another success for customer service – the guy in the Orange shop just suggested I should go to the O2 shop across the way where I might get a better deal. So much for being a loyal customer for the last ten years. Can anyone suggest a network they don’t completely hate?

Time for a bit of a catch up….First up Bobs party friday last. It took me a little walking around the city to find the right basement – there was no urgency, nothing was going to start until 8, so having found where I was going later I started wandering around with the intention of […]