Neil Hopcroft

Its a good day over at the Register today – Segway into little girl “Toddler Ruby Bleskacek was punished by a Segway rider in a hit-and-run accident on Tuesday. (No, we are not making this up.)”

Its politcal corerctness gone mad, I tell you. “The computing world’s venerable master/slave naming convention has come under fire by Los Angeles county officials who charge that this type of product description is offensive.” I presume the offense here is in the use of the word ‘slave’, referring to a device (not person) that is […]

Inspired by Iain Sinclairs “London Orbital” I today set off to walk the Meiji-dori. I got as far as Ikebukero before being distracted by shops, not bad going I think. On the way I discovered a tram system (which warants further investigation) and some incredible road mending machines (which, frankly speaking, scare me). Next time […]

Then, all I need to do is something extreme… Its good to be back on a real keyboard, with little letters and everything. There was only minor further excitment on todays excursion – I found a second hand record shop. At first I was a little concerned that it might actually be a second hand […]

NOW ALL I GOT TO DO IS FIGURE OUT HOW TO POST IN LITTLE LETTERS TO EXTREME LJ

TODAYS OUTING IS ANOTHER OF THOSE GET ON A TRAIN AND SEE WHERE I END UP TRIPS. NOTHING VERY EXCITING TO REPORT SO FAR. I FOUND A LONG AND WINDING MALL AND A PICTURE OF SANTA CLAUS RELAXING ON A NEW YORK BEACH.

Can anyone recommend any *good* SD card playlist management software? The Panasonic SDJukebox program is awful, I’ve just spent about an hour and a half putting together three playlists only to have it forget once I’d finished because I pressed the wrong button: – the main playlist management screen doesn’t display any track names (you […]

This is not the Blyth you were looking for…

As if the original wasn’t confusing enough…Stoner Fluxx, a themed version of the unruly card game.