Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for February 2025

Dealing with my fragile hosting

My hosting provider started complaining that I was faulting. Which seemed a bit weird because I was fundamentally the only person using my server, and it isn’t like I was pushing very hard. I figured this was more about upselling me to a service I don’t really need than actual problems. So I started down […]

Street car festival – part 1

American muscle On Sunday I went to Street Car Fest at Sollentuna Massan exhibition centre – I kept expecting to meet Vin Diesel living his life a quarter mile at a time. There was a lot of bass and a lot of people who thought their cars were really good. And to be fair some of them […]

Akalla

Some pictures from around our flat in Akalla. The roads here are said to be infested with “farmers farming concrete cows”, because many roadworks are barricaded off with blocks of concrete that look like cows, this is a variant on the same theme. I tried, but failed, to explain Milton Keynes….as an aside, “A Swedish Organization […]