Neil Hopcroft

Oh my pretty things, what sweet music they make (contains: geekiness, disclaimers and someone who can’t tell the different between a Scanjet 4c and a Scanjet 4p)

Work in progress – as slow as possible, indeed.

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Seems my decision not to take the Civil Disobediance Handbook on holiday was the right one (isn’t Suicide Bombers a great name for a band? “I’m going to see the Suicide Bombers tonight”) Gaming table Visual programming language

This sucks (worksafe) Atypical Barbie owner Still searching for that 1×1 transparent red plate?

Well thats one mystery solved. I woke with a shock last night, so much so that I jumped out of bed. I assumed it was because I was feeling unwell[0], but it seems it might be related to the latest raid, at the shop not far from my house. There has been a series of […]

“Beautiful new look of nose Be a Cleopatra’s nose Indispensible for your beautiful nose You wouldn’t miss a chance”

Does anyone know anything about mapping and/or geographical data representations? Specifically I’m looking for some maps in an open vector map format, ideally one that is chunkable for piecemeal download over a GPRS connection, scales reasonably easily and is handlable by midrange mobile phones. The format is the important bit for the moment, the maps […]

I’ve been a bit lax on my book reviews of late – theres a little bit of a backlog, which I’ll try to clear over the next few days. Junk is a book I bought some time ago on the strength of its cover – pure white, showing the works of an addict. Theres something […]

A long shot – does anyone know of a freely downloadable Bluetooth HCI emulator? I’ve got a VM with a program that talks serial line (BCSP, though I believe H4 is an option) HCI to a device on a serial port, which I’m connecting via a named pipe to the VM host – I’d like […]