Neil Hopcroft

It would seem we are entering a new age of global communication. Today is the first day I have considered giving up on email as a useful communication mechanism, I had expected the MyDoom storm to calm and everything to return to normal. This has yet to happen. September just got worse [0]. Email is […]

My first LiveJournal spam! What joy. Its a chain letter for a Christian movie. Yeah, that’ll go down well. On so many levels. If this becomes the norm I will be closing down anonymous posting to this journal…. Most of the posts will still be publically readable, as they are now, though.

Hugs to venta for making my day. Thank you!

Gah, someone on Oxford NTL has just filled my mailbox with MyDoom…

…and there are days when you meet someone you feel you were destined to meet, sooner or later [0] Which got me remembering one of the projects I ‘ran’ while I was in Oxford. This project was a collaboration between four companies. This project taught me a lot about how to work with people. I […]

…was a real film? I thought I’d accidentally managed to get inside the mind of simonsatori and couldn’t find the way out.

Kinda appropriate…(given I run Powermagic Ltd Edit: it helps considerably if its pointing at the right powermagic, doesn’t it?)… I AmWhich tarot card are you? …now all I need to do is start making magic happen.

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 […]