Neil Hopcroft

“Actually, I don’t think that was part of the entry criteria. In fact, if it were they would have turned me away at Narita. If I were trying to communicate with a local person that may require me to speak Japanese. As it is I’m trying to talk to another native English speaker, we’re both […]

Now that cyberpunk is dead, it must be replaced with something…I’ve heard a couple of people talking about the next wave of fiction, but I don’t know any details. Anyone know anything about it? Who/what should I be reading next?

Midnight Mess last night kicked off slowly, Torture Garden were holding their Tokyo event, also in Roppongi. Until about two there were only about a dozen people there, and the music, while quite listenable, was, to my ears at least, obscure. Then Rome Burns arrived. It wasn’t the real Rome Burns ‘cos simonsatori had short […]

just testing if this really does work 40m underground

I noticed today how different shadows here are to those in Finland…it wasn’t something I really thought about until I was looking outside at midday while I was in Helsinki a couple of weeks ago, even with the sun at the highest point you’ll cast a long shadow, so the sun is often shining in […]

jarkman reminded me of the Powermagic website which has been rotting for the last year or so since I had a decent brainstorming session. Now its time to revive it and turn it into a sensible tool for distribution of ideas. For this I will need some help – is there anyone out there who […]

I got a mail to my power-magic.com address today from a guy called Merlin. Shame it was spam, I’d have considered hiring him otherwise….

Oh, and I went to the dentist yesterday ‘cos I’ve had a little ache going on for a while now so figured I should get it looked at to make sure I hadn’t lost a filling and started rotting away too badly. Turns out I’ve been using too much toothpaste and that I shouldn’t bother […]

Nokia have recently taken over some more office space on one of the upper floors of the building – I had my first meeting in one of the new meeting rooms earlier this week. There were a couple of surprises – from there you can look out across the bay to Odaiba beyond the Rainbow […]