Neil Hopcroft

…when I posted my last entry describing the journey to Finland I should have pointed out that I was back in Tokyo…sorry for the confusion, and heres part two… Our meeting in Helsinki was adjourned when we reached an impass at around 2pm (having refused to be distracted by the strange man offering to take […]

I knew I shouldn’t have looked …at least Suggs is almost cool: The Number 1 single on your birthday was: Clive Dunn – “Grandad” The Number 1 album was: Simon & Garfunkel – “Bridge Over Troubled Water” Born on your birthday: 1957 – Don Snow ( keyboard player, Squeeze ) 1961 – Graham McPherson ( […]

“You see that Xena Warrior Princess, she’s your favorite historical figure” …and I thought I was bad at history. Or maybe we should be asking ourselves more about what history is? Why do we believe the history we were taught in school? Is there anything happening here apart from a speeding up of the story […]

(this entry written in a steakhouse at Helsinki airport…yeah, I know, even with redundancy on my mobile internet and I couldn’t get the laptop to dialup…the rest of the trip later, once I’m caught up with the rest of everything) Helsinki airport, where I rather foolishly arrived early expecting there to be some kind of […]

Oh, and while I’m at it, if there are any security and/or embedded coders out there, could you drop me a mail – I’ve got some project ideas I’d like to kick around.

Eeeps, 9 hours ’til I leave for Helsinki and I’ve not started packing yet. Why am I so disorganised?

Teen rage… “The mother had – clearly ill-advisedly – decided to confiscate her daughter’s mobile phone. She ended up barricaded in her bedroom for her trouble, with the frenzied adolescent hacking at the door a la Jack Nicholson. Mercifully, the authorities intervened at that point.” …time to bring back the metal chassis of the old […]

I suppose I should ask this in … Am I going to be able to get to Helsinki for a meeting and back to Tokyo for Dark Castle on Saturday? That would work out an average of around 150mph for the duration of the trip. Maybe it’d be better to work out how to use […]

stompyboots and timsmith are in Japan at the moment, so I have been showing them a few of the sights over here. They seemed quite impressed with the Christon Cafe on Friday night, and yesterday was a lot of walking around Odaiba…I hope they enjoyed that too, but they were looking a little tired by […]