Neil Hopcroft

Computer games of the 80s and 90s make so much more sense now. Chris invited me along to a Sumo tournament, to meet up with a representative of an embedded electronics company. There were the four of us, Sam, Chris, his wife and myself. We had a box on around the seventh row back – […]

Fast shooter “When the camera is switched on, the start-up screen shows a photo of an actual Ferrari F2004 Formula One racing machine and plays the sound of a Ferrari engine, so users can experience the thrill of Ferrari F1 Grand Prix racing every time they turn on the camera.” Big dumb booster “The rocket […]

…yet another update to the plan…I’ve signed for another three weeks, until the end of my visa (18th June). After which I’m not sure what happens, I’ll most likely be back in the UK for a couple of weeks, then maybe off to Finland. I should hear back from the guy I was talking to […]

Since I had to rebook my flight this morning (it was supposed to be today and I couldn’t get through last night to change it) I’ve had to chose a day for my return to the UK – I’ll now be back on the 20th June. I still don’t know whats happening with my job, […]

Following some indecision and confusion the marvelousmrchip arranged to come to Tokyo at the weekend, just passing through on his way to New Zealand.

After being amazed by the marvelousmrchips antics trying to change his flight tickets yesterday, I thought I’d check when my return flight is booked for. Oops – its 11am tomorrow…but, of course, the Tokyo and Narita offices of Virgin Atlantic are closed and the London office has a *huge* queue on the voicemail, just hope […]

Gah! Busy weekend, will write that up later, but for the moment just a quick note about the plan… I spoke to my line manager (at least the guy who is sorting out what happens next) and he’d not realised that my last day was in May, he thought it was June…he was a little […]

No updates on the plan yet. Two weeks to go and we’re starting to realise just how broken some of the deliveries we’ve been receiving have been – dammit software development is a difficult thing to do right, patch on patch, miss one and the whole house of cards caves in. This has to be […]

Do you ever get one of those days when someone comes to you demanding that you fix something that is obviously deeply fundamentally wrong with whatever you are making? Only to find out the next day that the people you are expecting to supply the fixes haven’t even noticed theres a problem. Tomorrows exercise is […]

Marilyn Mansons version of ‘The KKK took my baby away’ is deeply disturbing. In a good way. I must check out some more of his music having largely avoided it all these years because of all the kids with too much facepaint. Indeed, all the tracks on this Ramones tribute (we’re a happy family) are […]