Neil Hopcroft

Oven cleaner is evil

Spooky Lego rocks – its got a vampire in a coffin and heads in bottles and bats and a spider and a hunchback and a cart and a guy with a microphone

I’m moving to Japan. It’s time to explain some of the cryptic comments and allusions I’ve been making here over the past few days… On the Monday morning (after the verbal redundancy notice on Friday) I had a phone interview with Nokia in Tokyo. By 10am that morning I’d received a job offer. This is […]

…by the Cramps, *rocks* Project to digitise my vinyl coming along, got as far as Helloween for the recording, as far as the Cramps for mp3ing…. Not sure this is a particularly professional job but my ears aren’t that fussy…

Job agents, that it. It seems they’re just easily confused, which is something I can relate to….but *why oh why* do they insist on having CVs in Word format?

Are you male or female?: The man who came in third Describe yourself: God has gone wrong again How do some people feel about you?: Sometimes I wonder How do you feel about yourself?: Its not going to happen again Describe your girlfriend: Burning Joan Describe what you want to be: Bacchus on the Wagon […]

Looks like things are coming together for the next chapter…only got some paperwork to sort out now…more details soon, when I’m less tired and more capable of thinking and typing…

Erm, well, I hadn’t really expected to be an extreme heretic…such is life. The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell – The City of Dis!Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Low Level […]

What about Sendo? They’re a handset manufacturer in Birmingham. They’re also rather confused, getting me to a face-to-face interview under false pretenses – the position was actually a UI position, not a core system position. I wouldn’t even have bothered with a phone interview if I’d known that…how come I didn’t figure it out until […]

Time for some interviews…I had a phone interview with Teleca…I didn’t understand before I spoke to them what they did. I still didn’t understand after I’d spoken to them. Perhaps they’re not my kind of company after all. They seemed desperate to get people without really having a plan of what they were going to […]