Neil Hopcroft

As it looks like I’ll have a little more time on my hands in a couple of weeks, I thought I’d try to pick up some of the blue-sky thinking I was doing before I got stuck in the now. Theres plenty of room at the bottom seemed like a good place to start, since […]

Japanese businesswomen in their summer suits….mmmm…. But apart from that not a lot happening here, the project is in a testing phase, where everything goes quiet until we get our test results toward the end of the week. I caught hayfever, which is a little irritating, tastefully bloodshot and streaming eyes at the moment, its […]

In the UK there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people “The key advantage from a wi-fi network camera compared with a fixed camera system is purely the mobility, and being able to be flexible enough to deal with crimes in certain areas directly at the times that you need it,” Combined with the […]

This is so wrong “Emulating a CISC processor (i.e., the x86/IA-32 instruction set) via a small RISC processor (i.e., the ARM instruction set) is a very heavyweight task.” And there was me thinking that running a spectrum emulator on your phone was cool… however, maybe a cygwin port would be handy?

Does anyone else out there use Eudora? I’m seeing more and more of my outbound mails bounced as spam. I think this is because the version I use incorrectly sets the ehlo to the domain of the ‘from’ address you use rather than trying to figure out the actual machine name (or, at least, domain). […]

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.