Neil Hopcroft

“Despite an hours-long search Tuesday night, the bag, containing a fake bomb complete with wires, a detonator and a clock, made it onto an Amsterdam-bound flight” Its interesting to think about screening in the light of the book I’m reading at the moment – Reckoning with Risk, Learning to live with Uncertainty. The book describes […]

“I can see cell-phone vibrators opening the doors for people who are otherwise embarrassed about sex toys.” …I wonder how you get to be on the team writing device drivers for them? …brings a whole new meaning to ‘having a deep personal raport with the testing team’.

“According to research by card provider Visa, 20% of people are not using their pin because they haven’t memorised it.” I already have a head full of numbers, there isn’t space for any more. Someone helpfully pointed out that it was just four digits, but what they hadn’t realised was that I’ve already remembered something […]

Today I’m officially freaked out. I received a communication from an ex of mine after my posting about the Army gig last night. The reason I’m freaked out is that we’ve not really communicated for nearly 8 years and we didn’t exactly part on good terms at the time. However, I think I’ve changed a […]

http://pimpcentral.org/classifieds.htm “London, England – The one place in the world with too damn many hoes. Don’t come here unless you got cash, got it?” “Taylor the Tailor makes custom boa’s just for pimps. Fur, velvet and muppet skin. 4th and Broadway.”

Its the first time I’ve seen New Model Army. There, I’ve said it. No, its true, I’ve never seen them before. I saw Justin Sullivan in Oxford a couple of years ago. Well, I would have done if I’d turned up in time, I got there for the last half of his set (what kind […]

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I’ve just found a cache of wine in one of the kitchen cupboards, I’m sure I went through them all when I arrived, how could I have missed 6 bottles of wine, one of Johnny Walker, one of an impronouncable Ukranian spirit and one of champagne? Unless the agent deviously planted them for me last […]

Today I’m fighting for bandwidth against a cygwin download…..I need wget ‘cos I can’t get firefox to change its cache location to another drive, thats what you get for setting up win98 on a 500Mb partition, isn’t it? Theres 40Gigs free in the rest of the machine but to download anything it has to go […]