Neil Hopcroft

Walking through the 80s scifi tunnels below Shinjukus skyscraper district I discovered yet another little shopping mall tucked away around a corner – this one I suspect was linked to a hotel since it had plush carpets and was full of some of the tackiest shops you’ve ever seen. They were selling pure ugliness in […]

Stupid question: Where did “Fasten your seatbelt Dorothy, we’re going for a ride” come from?

Opheera McDoom writes some insanity about suing Jews for something reported in the bible… which wouldn’t have caught my eye had it been written by anyone else.

Some of the ME lot will, I’m sure, appreciate Mr Lincolns Shoes

Since everyone else is doing the ‘describe me in one word’ meme, I figured that memes are getting so streamlined these days that this was nearly as far as they could go…but theres one step further: Describe me in no words at all. On a slightly more serious note – I’ve been wondering if theres […]

Oh dear, it seems to have taken me a while to recover from the raucous week of rock and roll debauchery, I must be getting old. But now I’m back, and I want to turn up the soundtrack to my life another notch. Last week saw the first train outage I’d encountered – I’ve been […]

I seem to be having some trouble sending things to anyone at darkwave, did I accidentally annoy dishmop too? Or am I just being stupid again?

Looking at this[0] brought to mind some of my thought experiments[1] and memories of porting GOCR to EPOC. Both of which have been rotting rather since my initial enthusiasm just after christmas. So much for my next ‘next big thing’…one day I’ll have either the time or the patience to get there. [0] Auto translation […]

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