Neil Hopcroft

Tonight I failed to find Paranoia[0] so I strolled up the hill to the biggest spectrum analyser I’ve ever seen[1] and went inside for a pizza. Of course, this is back to Roppongi Hills, a place I’ve likened to Paradise Towers in the past. This time its scarier, there is an art exhibition going on […]

Today, my first quake with other people in sight, 430pm, watching their reactions – most of us just paused at the terminal, little yelps from the corner of the office, my boss wandered past asking what was going on. No ducking, no panicking, no running, just standing or sitting still waiting for the rattling to […]

Everythings lagging: – jet – email – cashflow Need to get back to realtime….

Album mini-review: “Deep shadows and brilliant highlights” by Him rocks. Admittedly I’ve only listened to one track so far but that track rocks. Incidentally, anyone know anything about the copy protection it claims to have, ‘cos my ripper seems to be behaving perfectly normally.

Everything is looking hectic here at the moment and I’m not getting much of a chance to look around Tampere except for the inevitable getting lost while driving back to the hotel. Have just put the finishing touches to a script to run over night and its time to go home. More later….

…blaring from the stereo. And now i’m in jetlag city stuck with a hotel internet system that has an appalling keyboard that makes double keying an art form and has limits on its html form entry sizes. No matter, the sun will be rising soon giving me a good view of the paper factory over […]

The flight to Helsinki was dull and uneventful. The inflight entertainment was a good deal poorer than the Virgin flight from Heathrow to Tokyo – though I doubt I’ll be flying by FInnair much so it probably doesn’t matter. The inflight movie was Anger Management which turned out to be about at boring as I […]

Again, not a lot to report today, I went for another wander around my local park – it was far busier today since the weather was a little more friendly. On the way around I discovered a French rose garden, an English landscaped garden and a greenhouse. The greenhouse was great, kind like some of […]