Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

Welcome to eGovernment. Its a place where it takes hours to find the page you want, because the Tax people aren’t listed in the A-Z index under either Tax or Inland Revenue, they’ve reorganised into a different letter (they’re now Revenue and Customs), so noone can find their website. Then, once you’ve found the site […]

Book review: The second creation

“The age of biological control by the scientists who cloned Dolly.” This book follows the story of the team who made Dolly, the sheep. From the early attempts, through a series of incorrect theories about what was and was not possible, to their eventual understanding of the necessary nuclear transfer process and finally the creation […]

Its toast…in the post Although I was considering changing my car, I think “BOEING 727 JET LIMO CONVERTED FOR STREET USE” would probably be going a little far…

“Welcome to gaywheels.com. Our goal is to be the gay friendly automotive resource. We will acheive that by providing…” ….a site so gay that it contains no words at all, just pictures that look like words. Don’t gay people cut and paste? Is there anything else I should know about gay culture to help me […]

Once again they do a better job of explain what I was trying to say over at Creating Passionate Users – theres a nice graph of features vs happiness. Getting the balance right is important, but also the way the features are exposed to the user is important, you can get more features in before […]

I seem to have spent the entire weekend washing up. No, thats not quite true, I took a break to do some ironing and mow the grass. I nearly mowed a toad, poor thing was quite scared of the strimmer, bless it. There was a bit of time to head over to Swaffham Prior, too, […]

“The GOOD NEWS to this is that a very alert crew noticed a small amount of smoke halfway back in the train and immediately stopped the train in compliance with the rules. The BAD NEWS“

More adventures with edible computers

Sexy death chicks

“An everlasting world and you’re here with me, eternally Now that I’m here, now that you’re near in Xanadu” So sad to see the home of the future rotting so.