Neil Hopcroft

Thats it, I’ve had my last curry pineapple burger and now we’re off. Departing Sweden tomorrow heading south.

The Rødby Puttgarden ferry is a little more serious than i had expected. Still, the travels are going ok so far. Back in blighty for the weekend.

What stormtroopers do on their days off Lego games Volvo 240 font Rolling SQL injection attack

Marketing? Really? No. I might be disillusioned with some parts of the consumer electronics industry, but my passion is still technology. That is unlikely to change anytime soon. Things are a little crazy here at the moment, we’re in the process of packing for taking everything back to England before heading off travelling around Europe. […]

As you know my time in Sweden is coming to an end – I finished working on Tuesday and now its time to move back to England. This time a change of job will bring with it a change of lifestyle too, since it is now clear to me that consumer electronics, and technology in […]

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world I don’t know if this is what I am looking for, I don’t think it is really. There is something to it, but I kinda see things the other way around. Not with harnessing gamers to save the world, but rather giving people who play games better […]

“…Come evangelists of the Grand New Age proclaiming the future that they stole.” Time to steal it back. Ten years since the height of the tech bubble? A lost decade? I was still coding security protocols for an embedded OS stack a decade ago, getting itchy feet when they put us on sanitising somebody elses […]

Here be dragons (caution: javascript contained within may not be optimal…no, what am I saying, it *IS NOT* optimal). Sadly not real dragons, they’re a Japanese baseball team. So disappointing. Oh well, heres some other things. Be gentle with it, I’m just experimenting at the moment. This currently feeds from the few geotagged RSS feeds […]

While packing for moving to a new desk (a somewhat redundant exercise as I shall explain shortly) I found a pile of my old code review papers. With “UNSAFE” written in big red letters against around 50% of the functions. I’m gonna miss this place when its time to move on…”this isn’t the funniest job […]

We got back to Sweden to find a foot of snow, congratulations to the 9000 for starting first time despite being left for a month in temperatures down to -20C. …of course theres more catching up to do.