Neil Hopcroft

I never did write up my trip to Venturefest in Oxford, did I? A final fling for Powermagic, well, for the moment at least. I booked into a travel lodge at the bottom of the hill by the Cowley works junction of the ring road….this isn’t going to be a fun way to wake up […]

Typing ‘Brazil’ and ‘Pi’ into Liveplasma pretty much draws a picture of my favorite films. Thats pretty impressive for a search engine. Diamond fiction Pixelroller – another kind of decorator (eye-safe) Armchair handstands, among others “This thing allows you to record your own clever message that plays when someone pulls the toilet paper.” “Wanted: 30 […]

It used to be that whenever I started a new job one of my grandparents died. That was quite depressing. But recently fate has been getting more ambitious – I started my last permanent job in August 2001 and I’ve only been at my latest job for a few weeks. I’m just hoping they put […]

Theres a helluva good lightning storm going on outside at the moment….oddly just a constant rumble of thunder accompanying it, no rain, few loud cracks, its just like someone turned up the A14 a bit. And put the sun on ‘strobe’. The rain’ll be here soon. In the meantime, here’s some zombie dogs.

Todays car boot fair trip yielded a brief chat with lark_ascending, two board games and more fruit than I can realistically process before the mould sets in. One of the boardgames is so unusual the internet has never heard of it – The Bay City Rollers On Tour, the game. The closest I could find […]

Rover get the decorators in. (watch your eyes – this is what would happen if Masa-sans friends were let loose with a 200-series)

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MasaManiA gets the decorators in… “The good thing about these pictures are all the ppl in the background who are not dressed as those in the foreground are. The bad thing about these pictures is that for the first time in my life I thought someone wearing hot pink sneakers was quite normally dressed. :)” […]

Nintendogs The secret life of numbers Prototype robot exhibition