Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

“An everlasting world and you’re here with me, eternally Now that I’m here, now that you’re near in Xanadu” So sad to see the home of the future rotting so.

Haverhill today (pronounced ‘averell’, if you’re a local). What a depressing town, no wonder they only charge 10p per hour for parking, surely that can’t cover the maintence cost of the meters? There was a market on, but it mostly sold cheap fake electrical goods, there was only one food stall I saw and they […]

“Alice Falbala is given full access to all confidential and secret information about GAUL. Sincerely, Julius Caesar” md5sum – a25f7f0b29ee0b3968c860738533a4b9 Comparing files letter_of_rec.ps and ORDER.PS 00000053: 97 17 0000006D: A3 23 0000006E: 78 79 0000007B: 5A DA 00000093: C8 48 000000AD: D8 58 000000BB: 6F EF This is an interesting attack. You’ll notice that the […]

I’ve just been catching up on Creating Passionate Users – Is /your/ work remarkable? I’m not sure mine is, but I would like for it to be. That article describes something I’ve been thinking for a while, it asks you to ask yourself how you can make the life of those who use your products […]

Anyone got any handy tips on how to get the SGI kernel debugger to run on a PPC box?

– like the idea, not sure I feel eligible to participate. World of beards – like the idea, not sure I feel eligible to participate. Its not a panic stop, its the racing line.

47 missed calls

No wonder my Elvis detector was going crazy….faring better as an institution than marriage…

Its all falling apart:

A first step toward the edible mobile phone…just needs a little miniturisation.