Neil Hopcroft

A quick note of congratulations to my car for passing its MOT today with only advisories on the brakes, which I got fixed even though they weren’t failures – it seemed like the kind of thing that was worth fixing especially if the MOT itself wasn’t going to be expensive. So no emergency new car […]

I’m amused by the idea that Winterkalte ‘Maximum credible accident’ leaking from my headphones at the office sounded like birds chirping….its very good coding music but it doesn’t sound much like birds from inside the ‘phones.

I think I’ve finally figured out what the happy sound was…its Skype on the mac telling me someone has come online, which all makes sense. There are some things I should tell you about before they get lost in the mists of time. I took a day off to head up to the Manuskript gig […]

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I chose this book after someones response to my gentle mocking of someone reading ‘NLP for dummies’ on the train – its not a subject I knew much about. Well, I thought I didn’t know much about it. Reading this book though is like reading a collection of many other management and personal development books, […]

I’ve just scared myself by noticing that I’ve now had this journal for 10% of my life, thats just over 3 years 7 months, sometimes I hate having a brain that thinks about things like that. So anyway heres a review of my year: “Well thats one mystery solved. I woke with a shock last […]

“He figured the odds. And they still beat him” This book follows the authors self destructive love affair with WorldCom shares as they fell from grace. And describes some of the lessons he learned along the way. I spent about half the book being annoyed by his incorrect grasp of some of the statistics he […]

Jack Handys Christmas Lego Adventure Postal service of the damned^wsaved Art or arse? – not the answer I was expecting (worksafe text based gooogletoy) The Wii is not a tie.

The heroine of this book, Rosie, had managed to annoy me by the end of page two by sleeping with someone obviously deeply inappropriate. She started the book as such a vacuous waste of skin and air that I considered giving up on her but although she was irritating I felt I had to find […]

I have something of a soft spot for Shaun Hutson, his writing style is utterly disposable, theres no depth to any of his characters or stories, but somehow I still find it all rather compelling. Its a long time since I read any of his books. This sees him more in a crime thriller genre […]