Neil Hopcroft

as when talking to a bunch of Californias who introduced themselves to me tonight – a truly surreal experience where while we were basically speaking the same language I understood everything they said but none of them understood a word of mine. Is my accent really that strong? We managed to establish a protocol where […]

Damn you all! You’ve all gone quiet. Anyone would think it was Christmas or something… I expect to find accounts of your Noel joys and horrors when I get back from Cyberage Voodoo…

…mostly clumsy. I started the day waking myself up by throwing coffee grounds over my bare feet. Joy. And have just dropped a bowl to land perfectly in my rice-cooker after folding itself into three pieces, knocking the lid closed on its way in. Neat. Work went well today, since we solved most of the […]

And while I’m still awake and posting, who invented the Porsche MPV? Please can someone explain to them that Porsche make sports cars (tacky yuppie sports cars, but so are most sports cars), they don’t make MPVs. There was one parked in the office car park today and its just wrong.

…full of Santas. Fluffy easter bunny santas, black clad top hat santas, kinky valentines day santas, pizza delivery santas (admittedly he was outside, on a pizza delivery sleigh^Wmoped). The vast majority of these santas will be female.

How I wish that were so, six months in and the project is hotting up. I’ve been moved onto the critical path component now and the pressure is on – there seems to have been a little bit of a misunderstanding which is only now being examined in more detail. Obviously I can’t go into […]

Some more of the Meiji-dori today, this time the stretch from here to Ikebukuro again, but this time with my camera… I popped in to 01010 on the way, I’d not noticed before but that one has a bunch of alternative clothing stores, and a CD shop right at the top. After browsing through their […]