Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

To console myself for working late (again) today I bought myself some strawberry flavoured ‘Air in Chocolate’. Yum. Tomorrow, I aim to be out of the office by 9pm.

At last people are catching up with some of the possibilities of camera phones I posted this time last year…I’ll have to do some more brainstorming about what happens next…and patent it this time, not sure anyones managed to port GOCR onto EPOC yet, my port compiles but I couldn’t make the test code work. […]

At last most of the paranoia has gone, everything has settled into just normal chilli pain, I fear I’m going to have to be more selective about my diet over here. I don’t think eating a huge bowl of four cheese pasta and a pound of boiled beef helped much, and probably the two hours […]

Another fine mess

Today I am full of sleep deprivation, caffeine withdrawl and paranoia. I hate sundays, especially the ones where you wake up at 5pm. Write up of Midnight Mess available when I’m less headache and more memory.

Looks like work are trying to find a ‘volunteer’ to go and work in Finland for a bit. Currently unsure of whether it will be me (most likely since everyone else in my team is pretty settled in Japan) and, if so, what timescale they’re thinking about. Not sure what I think about the idea […]

Radio hackers hurl drive by abuse at Burger King customers “Burger King customers visiting a drive-through restaurant had to run a gamut of abuse after pranksters succeeded in hacking into the outlet’s wireless intercom system”

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Curry overdose

I think I might have overdone the hot food over the last few days, a shame since its so nice, but my stomach is now complaining :( …anyone got any ideas for calming it a little? Preferably ones that don’t involve trying to make myself understood in a pharmacy.

Best bread message from Scandanavian Natural Roman

Our little friend “TOMTO” use magical secret-power for delicious BREAD that. Well enjoy in next morning. Children who living in NORTHERN EUROPE tell us secret that just baken BREAD. Yes……TOMTE’s secret. HOKUO as. BREAD country SAPPORO is very similar with TOMTE’s land.