Neil Hopcroft

I love spam. And hate it at the same time. How else could you ever expect to encounter someone called ‘Elmo Tent’? The theme of the moment seems to be food – yesterday we went to Pop Bellies in Huntingdon (ulfilias, I need an up-to-date number for you, the one I have starts 0171, a […]

Wow, there really is quite a lot of weather outside today. Its days like this that one particularly appreciated the neighbours windchimes in their cacophonic glory, Mozart would never have thought of that.

…a whole bunch of wicked problems, some thoughts about defining the problems and creating solutions.

I’ve just downloaded my life. Well, the last couple of years of it at least. The 6A/LJ news has finally pushed me to figuring out how to download all the entries I’ve made here. You can do it too

One of the great things about short term contracts is that when you are asked your opinion you are prepared to give it – theres nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose. Describing an entire team as ‘haphazard’ would, under most other circumstances, be somewhat career limiting. Also, something for the […]

Firstly, Happy Birthday to the mobile phone industry – “The first call was made [on 1/1/1985] from St Katherine’s dock to Vodafone’s head office in Newbury which at the time was over a curry house.” “Thieves take brain remote control” “Numerous people have been questioned by the FBI about this laser beam activity, but no […]

I’m just watching the video for “The Grudge” by Mortiis – its a good deal sillier than I’d really expected from him. Is the rest of his stuff this daft? We’ve made it to 2005, it was welcomed in with a healthy dose of the second most addictive thing to come out of South America […]

Snowman

This morning was spent mostly listening to New Model Army, apparently one of the favorite bands of one of my colleagues. I’d not had him marked as a cloggy somehow, but apparently he shared a house with some of them while he was studying in Bradford (or something). Not sure how this went down with […]

Combining: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,66146,00.html http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0705/web-finger-07-06-04.asp We get some interesting numbers… 47,000,000 fingerprint records of ‘undesirables’ held by FBI 118,000 visitors to the US 99.6% match accuracy for two finger test against a single print (I’m going to assume false positive and false negative rates are the same since the stats don’t actually show that) So, 4 people […]