Neil Hopcroft

Electronic monk “he suggests, a backpack could be used in the middle of a protest or emergency to enable everyone in the area to immediately communicate with one another. We can see several situations where a moveable, location-specific network could be very useful” At last the potential of mobile adhoc networking is becoming a feasibility… […]

You have to ask yourself What would Motley Crue do?

Hot wheels “We suggest, nay demand, an immediate return to the beloved, benevolent and – most importantly – low-tech Routemaster double-decker on all London routes before the city’s population is reduced to clambering to work over the smouldering remains of its transport infrastructure.” Anyone inconvenienced by Evo conflagrations?

Toothing? “I’ve always loved the idea of random sexual encounters, but have never felt brave enough to go to (sex) parties”…”The train journey in the morning and evening is slow, tiresome and packed full of miserable people halfheartedly prodding at shiny new tech. You recognize faces within your tiny half-hour community, but you never talk […]

When your boss asks you whether you have any plans for the weekend the correct response is “Why are you asking?”, not “No”. I think I have escaped the meeting in Helsinki on wednesday, but not sure about the one next week…

And a random thought from last night – I’m not the only one who finds it slightly disturbing to have a 40 year old guy in a leather miniskirt trying to catch my eye all night, am I? (Do people here find me slightly disturbing?) I don’t have a problem with the concept of being […]

It occurred to me today that the dancing Elvises of Yoyogi-koen have probably not encountered the Leningrad Cowboys. Which I think is something of a shame, they would get on, I’m sure. I’m getting quite addicted to ‘Leningrad’ (“…they’re going to name my hometown Petersburg…”) and the video for ‘Happy being miserable’ has to be […]

…was a slogan I saw on the side of a van earlier this week. I didn’t take their number. Middonaitomesu again last night, after a miserable day sat at home waiting for the weather to be less grim before going out in it. Still, at least I kicked off one of the projects thats been […]

Lego Album Covers

This says everything I’ve been trying to say: “make sure that your child has better things to do in its life than pick up thirty-year-old perverts on an IRC channel” – diffrentcolours