Neil Hopcroft

The plan, as it currently stands, is that I will be finishing work at Nokia 26th May – one year after my contract date. After which I will fly back to England and spend a few weeks driving around, eating roast beef and talking to people in shops. There are a few things that could […]

Hazardous environment computing “Initially Mr Hogan carried it in his long johns to keep the device warm. But he later discovered that the PDA worked just as well when it was exposed to the cold.” Fujitsu/Iridium tie up of some kind, I thought they’d brought down the Iridium cluster after the company folded? Or is […]

UK’s no.1 fake ID site. “All are cards are novelty products and so long as they are used for fun you will not be committing any offences.”

A question of quality “The constant release of new versions causes a lot of grief for IT professionals and CIOs would much prefer to wait for something that actually works and is not full of bugs.” I see interesting times ahead…

I’ve just had a comment here accusing me of bandwidth theft…which doesn’t make any sense, what do they mean? I used a couple of picture links on that discusson in a ‘my phones better than your phone’ spat with evilmattikins, but please, everyone, don’t follow any of the links on that page, you’ll just get […]

Consider the true cost of living with Fear Of Clowns. “Like all fears and phobias, Fear of Clowns is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism. At some point in your past, there was likely an event linking clowns and emotional trauma. Whilst the original catalyst may have been a real-life scare of […]

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2073207040504.gif Such timing, its almost like he’s watching us.

Someone has just submitted a software defect against our project saying that the letters on the keytops are in upper case and that its quicker to text if they are in lower case. Does anyone else have trouble with this?

For some reason it seems that the Scotish Indie Scene is really big over here at the moment. Is this just the Japanese getting into something obscure, or are there some really good things happening north of the border?

It must be summertime again, the bright orange girls are out with their infeasibly mulleted boyfriends. I wonder what happens to them over winter? There were a few around but nothing like the number out now.