Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

“It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I’m glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there” —- “We don’t know each other, but we are now linked permanently in direct-marketing databases. I hope you are not a terrorist or […]

Things are progressing with the new box – I’m now in the process of pulling over all of the applications I’d previously had split between the laptop and desktop. Mail is the next one to come over, which is going to involve a catch up on mail thats been hanging around in my mailbox for […]

“With this document the Mexican government not only has not instructed its citizens to obey immigration law but, in rich detail, it has supplied a manual on how to circumvent U.S. immigration law” “The researchers found that the business managers scored, on average, more highly on measures of histrionic, narcissistic and compulsive personality than samples […]

Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight – m4m

If only all those webcams were like this…. (needs sound to be fully appreciated…thanks analogueheart)

It lives….finally gotten it to boot XP. Turns out it was the SATA/PATA converter I got for the DVD drive. Which was behaving for data transfers but didn’t work particularly well for other things. DVD drive switched onto an old Promise Ultra100 PCI card (along with a couple of disks I found lying around) and […]

Life assurance, not life insurance “U.S. Bunkers is dedicated to providing the most ultimate, portable and multipurpose habitat for protection and security from threatening and non-threatening situations.” (thanks to evilmattikinz)

“No, really, I’ve got this great idea for a film…”

“The international survey of 900 taxi drivers reveals that absent minded passengers are leaving…a harp, a throne, £100,000 worth of diamonds, 37 milk bottles, a dog, a hamster, a suitcase from the fraud squad and a baby”