Neil Hopcroft

Assistant: “Can I help you sir?” Me: “I was wondering if you had any more books?” He proudly leads me back to the aisle full of ‘Computing for seniors’ books that I’ve just visited. “What are you looking for sir?” “I’m after a book on C#, I found this one but the topic I’m interested […]

Its been a while, I know, and I’ve been up to a few things that I’ve not really written about here. The most significant of which is becoming a father, more on that later but lets take a little look further back than that first. Maybe I should pick up where I left off, the […]

There are days I think I’m not very good at my job, then I get a phone call like this: TS: Hello, I am calling from technical support, we have a report of your computer running slowly Me: Oh, really, where did you say you were calling from? TS: Technical support, sir, you have a […]

Theres something about this kind of social media that feels like obligation – I must write, publish to my audience, entertain you, bewilder, amaze, amuse. Now, though, I’m looking at the last few years and seeing that maybe my audience here is me, and finding the time to write is not the act of a […]

Born 2011-08-02 19:09, weighing 8lb 6oz

As some of you might know, it is my 40th year and it would seem a shame to let it pass uncelebrated. So I am intending to have a series of activites throughout the year to mark this occassion. Let me know if you would be interested in coming along to any or all of […]

The whirlwind stops spinning, just for a moment. Long enough for me to write a little about how things have settled here. I’ve started working for Service2Media in Enschede, we have rented a weird house/flat in the centre of the nearby town of Almelo (home town of Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut and twinned […]

When did I turn into the kind of person fellow travellers talk to?

i couldn’t understand the announcement but the sigh from my fellow passengers made it clear. I’ve got as far as almelo with no sign of a train. Oh well. Post from mobile portal m.livejournal.com

Thats my first 2 week stint in Holland over and I’m flying home (if I can call England that these days?) before the football madness takes over the country on Sunday. I’ll be back in England for the next couple of weeks, does anyone know of anything happening in London any evenings next week? Or […]