Neil Hopcroft

Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test ILUG (Mensch) The I LUG is that rarest of underlings: the one whom you can trust to understand what you’re telling them and then rely on to get the job done. In any organisation, these are the people who actually do the work. (example: Florence Nightingale)

I guess I should explain the poll about hands the other day. I was asked to participate in some usability testing for an experimental phone keypad. Using the keypad was difficult, I found the keys too close together so I kept double keying and pressing the wrong buttons (I think I even quad-keyed at one […]

…to go to an 80s night and fantasize (that can’t be the right spelling, but it doesn’t look right with an s either) about buying an angle grinder for musical purposes? Mirage was held in a bizarre club in Shinjuku, it was a large basement room but they’ve put a floor in half way up, […]

Another silly tube map

Trust me, I’m an engineer – another Dilbert classic.

Today I ran the barriers at Shibuya station. I didn’t mean to, and, indeed, didn’t expect to – I thought I had the right ticket and was confidently strolling through when the barrier closed on my trailing foot. Of course, I was so far through by then that it didn’t make much sense to force […]