Neil Hopcroft

…am I pressing reload? Everyone apart from Dilbert is in Whitby at the moment, and he’s already turned up today. Anyone who’s there and reading this tell everyone I know that I say ‘hi’.

I don’t know whether to be impressed or depressed that KLF sampled Uriah Heap.

Today I went to the end of the Oedo line, its an unusual line in-so-far-as it only has one end. It also remains underground for the entirity of the journey. I emerged into an area of many many huge blocks of flats. This reminded me a lot of Munich, the area around the olympic stadium […]

One year ago: “Alright, this journal corresponds to a new chapter opening up in my life.” A lot has changed in the last year. A lot more will change over the coming year.

Surviving his irony overdose, Morrisey seeks to take it to another level “…he was briefly suspected of being a terrorist…doubt that’lll cheer him up much”

“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 […]