Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

Everything is looking hectic here at the moment and I’m not getting much of a chance to look around Tampere except for the inevitable getting lost while driving back to the hotel. Have just put the finishing touches to a script to run over night and its time to go home. More later….

…blaring from the stereo. And now i’m in jetlag city stuck with a hotel internet system that has an appalling keyboard that makes double keying an art form and has limits on its html form entry sizes. No matter, the sun will be rising soon giving me a good view of the paper factory over […]

Good morning Finland

The flight to Helsinki was dull and uneventful. The inflight entertainment was a good deal poorer than the Virgin flight from Heathrow to Tokyo – though I doubt I’ll be flying by FInnair much so it probably doesn’t matter. The inflight movie was Anger Management which turned out to be about at boring as I […]

Again, not a lot to report today, I went for another wander around my local park – it was far busier today since the weather was a little more friendly. On the way around I discovered a French rose garden, an English landscaped garden and a greenhouse. The greenhouse was great, kind like some of […]

Looking at some of my recent CD acquisitions, I now own tracks by the following (romajised where necessary): – Mirakuru obu raifu (Miracle of life?) – Cune – Kelberos – The Shakalabbits – ZZ featuring Ken – Black Bottom Brass Band – Coke Screw (I particularly like this name) – Spoony – Sturdy Stamp – […]

Nothing interesting yet, please move along…. http://www.payphone-project.com/payphones/uk/

I know I’ve only posted links and no real content for the last couple of days, but bear with me, I’ll do something interesting sooner or later. In the meantime, here’s a Jesus of the week.

Any Oxford people out there who could put up a little lost Neilh for a couple of days after Whitby? Probably Monday through Wednesday, but plans not set in stone yet.

I was intrigued to note these vulnerabilities and would bet good money there are hundreds more such defects in that code. It is trivial to test for this kind of vulnerability if you put a bit of thought into it but nobody bothers.

Carbage or carnage? A different solution to the visibility problems of rear spoilers.