Neil Hopcroft

Ooo, just cheered myself up a bit by finding an instrumental version of “You really got me” played on tubular bells by an 80s JNewWave band…I love dodgy JPunk compilations. Sadly ‘Plastic Toy’ from the same album is not the one covered later by Rosetta Stone. Incidentally, anyone got any ideas who recorded a song […]

There are days when everything is fine. Today is not one of those. For some reason, today I am feeling particularly distant from my culture. Maybe its the weather being British (showers, Tokyo doesn’t do showers, it rains or it is sunny, all day). Maybe I should try harder to ignore the hype about Valentines […]

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The second installment of last weeks antics…

It seems Damian is working too much, so I went shopping today instead of waiting around for him…hopefully he’ll escape later. Todays find was a couple of JPunk&NewWave compilations, featuring none other than a Rosa Luxemburg, which now saves me from asking out loud the obvious ‘who was Rosa Luxemburg?’ when I don’t really care […]

Dream machine “The general concept is you’d sit down with it for a few minutes before you go to bed,” said Peter Harwood, senior marketing manager with Takara USA. Once this is done, he added, you are ready to visit Venice in your dreams. A new dimension Once photographed and enrolled in the database, a […]

And some more questions from ladycat: 1. You have a single day to be unexpectedly back in England, what are you going to do with it? Go to BMovieClub – I’ve only been once but had such a good time and loads of people were there. I don’t know, really, I’d like to see lots […]

Some questions from sciamachy What’s the best thing about living in Japan? The girls here are cute. Not that I can really communicate with them very well. I’ve been learning lots about communicating with different people from all around the world. What do you think will be the Next Big Thing in computing? Theres got […]

Vice or Vertu? GSM handsets starting at 5k UKP, at least they’re not optimising BOM.

I take it everyone else is getting buried under emails from this latest virus too?