Neil Hopcroft

Crash test of Chinese car (scary) Japanese game show Squirrel catapult Crossing the road – Hyderabad style Tonight we dine in Cleveland (300 spoof) 12-Jul-2007: entry set ‘public’

“Software quality – as an industry we don’t half ship some rubbish, I’m doing my bit to make things better not worse.” I’m considering adding this statement to my CV under a section entitled ‘Interests’. My aim is to make sure its not too dry, as CVs are wont to be, in the hope that […]

Chocolate cell phones Lifesize mousetrap This was a purely trouser-based disaster (worksafe) Art car parade 12-Jul-2007: entry set ‘public’

OK, so I was a little premature in calling the bottom, but only a month off. Rationalisation of the company occured in more or less the way I had predicted around six months ago, theres a few details that still need working out and I’m not going to talk about that here. It *is* a […]

For reasons that will become clear over the next few weeks (indeed, may already be clear to you), this journal is becoming ‘friends only’ for a while. I don’t intend this to be a permanent change. Please feel free to call or email me.

(Ok, so I’ve gotten somewhat distracted from doing book reviews of late, its not because I’ve stopped reading…I’m still spending plenty of time on trains…just that I’ve been growing a pile of ‘things I should do when I get around to it’) This book describes a series of psychological experiments carried out in the last […]