Neil Hopcroft

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 […]

One for the geeks out there – I’m trying to understand how the user agent header and user agent profiles are used, can you help me out? Leave a comment if you’ve got some thoughts about how these things should all fit together….

Mirage last night, at Head Power. It was a strange night, it was advertised as mainly an 80s night, but it was flipping between 80s and modern EBM. Satoko-chan was spinning when I arrived, but I hung around downstairs for a little talking to Rob, by the time I got up to the dancefloor she’d […]

Photo recognition software gives location “For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination.” Another of the pieces falls into place.

From what I can work out this book originated from a dare – or at least a misinterpretation of Gimpos obsession with the M25. It describes a series of walks around the capital, staying within the acoustic footprint of the motorway. They start walking up the Lea Valley toward South Mimms, where else would you […]

Where did I get to? Oh, yes, I’d just landed after flying back from Helsinki…flying in to Haneda airport is a very different experience to arriving at Narita, somewhat akin to landing at London City, you fly toward the skyscrapers then turn south toward the runway at the last minute. I collected my baggage and […]