Neil Hopcroft

Some useless facts about caffeine

Well, kinda, the latest is that I’m heading back out to Tokyo on Tuesday. I’ll be in Cambridge tomorrow afternoon – if anyone is about and would like to meet up, give me a call or leave a comment here (but be aware that my email comments, while receivable by mobile phone, are being unreliable […]

This: You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla …should never have happened, there must be something wrong with it.

“I’m on a plane” “It is sometimes possible to make cellphone calls while aboard a plane, but only when travelling at low altitude, in range of cellular network masts….concerns that they might interfere with aircraft electronics….However, American Airlines says extensive testing has so far revealed no interference.”

Dunno if anyone can help, but I’ve got a problem with a new machine I’ve just put together. Its based around a little barebones system on an intel 865G chipset with 200Gb SATA disk and DVD-R drive on parallel ATA. Running XP Pro. The system seems to frequently hang when you insert a CD or […]

Plastic surgery records are no longer the kind of record company who would publish records by Doctor and the Medics. (though the website also seems somewhat unrepresentative of the dreadful dance record shop I visited this afternoon)

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St. Paul never had to worry about fire codes “The Rev. Scott Breedlove, pastor of The Jesus Church, wanted to rekindle that tradition in a July 28 ceremony where books, CDs, videos and clothing would have been thrown into the flames. … “We don’t want a situation where people are burning rubbish as a recreational […]

Today, having not even ventured outside yesterday, I went for a walk around the park in Tonbridge. All the way around were places I recognised from my youth but they all looked small, I remember them being huge woods, massive railway bridges, fields for miles and miles. It must be the same as Mars bars […]

Reformed, and playing a gig in london… Their 1000th gig (when they split in 96) was a stormer, supported by zeni geva, a kind of japanese wyld stallyns, who did a 20 minute sound check before clearing and letting the donut on stage. Apparently more info at www.howlerrecords.com