Neil Hopcroft

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 […]

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 […]