Neil Hopcroft

I took Nils to the Classic and Vintage Car Show at Hedingham Castle, we arrived just as one of the Capris was pulling up the driveway toward the castle to join the rest of the Capri club. Now those engines sound good compared with modern cars.

It was never my intention to write a travel guide to Stockholm, more to give some impression of what it is like to live there as a foreigner. Maybe I’ll pick that up again at some point, for now, though, I’ve got a bit of a breathing space so figured I’d update here. Of course, […]

Stockholm itself is made up of a number of islands, with mainland to the north and south, the Baltic to the east and lake Malaren to the west. There is an archipelago constisting of some 26000 islands of various sizes stretching out into the sea toward Finland. A trip on the Waxholmsbolaget boat up to […]

Assistant: “Can I help you sir?” Me: “I was wondering if you had any more books?” He proudly leads me back to the aisle full of ‘Computing for seniors’ books that I’ve just visited. “What are you looking for sir?” “I’m after a book on C#, I found this one but the topic I’m interested […]

Its been a while, I know, and I’ve been up to a few things that I’ve not really written about here. The most significant of which is becoming a father, more on that later but lets take a little look further back than that first. Maybe I should pick up where I left off, the […]

There are days I think I’m not very good at my job, then I get a phone call like this: TS: Hello, I am calling from technical support, we have a report of your computer running slowly Me: Oh, really, where did you say you were calling from? TS: Technical support, sir, you have a […]

Theres something about this kind of social media that feels like obligation – I must write, publish to my audience, entertain you, bewilder, amaze, amuse. Now, though, I’m looking at the last few years and seeing that maybe my audience here is me, and finding the time to write is not the act of a […]

Born 2011-08-02 19:09, weighing 8lb 6oz

As some of you might know, it is my 40th year and it would seem a shame to let it pass uncelebrated. So I am intending to have a series of activites throughout the year to mark this occassion. Let me know if you would be interested in coming along to any or all of […]

The whirlwind stops spinning, just for a moment. Long enough for me to write a little about how things have settled here. I’ve started working for Service2Media in Enschede, we have rented a weird house/flat in the centre of the nearby town of Almelo (home town of Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut and twinned […]