Neil Hopcroft

I had to know whether paternoster elevators were a figment of my imagination: Escalators and lifts Elevator museum timeline …are there are still in use? (shame the elevator museum is purely online, that would be worth a trip…hmmm, I wonder if the Northampton Lighthouse is still up for sale?)

Somehow this – The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos – seems to have slipped under the radar while the Ergonomics of Dragging Sheep over various surfaces has received rather more coverage. Did any of you Oxford people catch the IgNobels as they passed through?

urgh, tonights curry tasted of dentists.

Today was my first day of relaxing for the last couple of months…..looks like tomorrow is going to be my last for a few weeks too, my parents and Kate and Tim are visiting soon and work are looking for people to go on field test trips over the next couple of weeks. I found […]

Geek Social Fallacy #5: Friends Do Everything Together “GSF5, put simply, maintains that every friend in a circle should be included in every activity to the full extent possible. This is subtly different from GSF1; GSF1 requires that no one, friend or not, be excluded, while GSF5 requires that every friend be invited. This means […]

At last I’ve gotten myself another phone…what happened (as if anyone really cares) was that the cable accidentally dunked itself in soup while I was out, I got home to discover my computer complaining that it didn’t recognise the device that was plugged in – thats not a device, thats my lunch. Obviously the soup […]

I got home from my walk this afternoon to discover that the soup i had for lunch has eaten the cable that connects my phone to the computer. so much for a useful afternoon catching up on email. have to fill in tax forms instead.

Who is Little My? I can’t identify you from the little information I have. Do you know me? …you’ve commented on this journal a couple of times now and it would be nice to know who you are. Mail me if you’d rather not leave such details in a comment here, or if you would […]

Pupils face camera phone ban “It is possible for kids to use them in the shape of bullying but perhaps more sinister than that it can be used by paedophiles.” To some extent I agree with the idea of banning camera phones from schools, they certainly have the potential for intrusiveness. And the way the […]

I’ve finally caught up enough to get a chance to write up the trip to Finland last week. There are still plenty of things that need doing, and I’m not feeling too good so concentrating on actually doing them is not easy…I think its a combination of jetlag and a cold or something I picked […]