Neil Hopcroft

The 9000 made it from the Baltic to the Mediterranean with only a couple of ‘whats that weird smell?’ incidents, both of which were eventually traced to Frenchmen burning tyres in a field. It took us four days, with stops for the night in Denmark, Germany and France. I think it was a good call […]

Driving through Europe these days you notice the changes of driving style more than the borders between the countries. Something about driving through Germany makes the Dutch particularly agressive on the road. I looked up from the road as we came over a range of hills to see all the vegetation had turned mediterranian. From […]

We set off yesterday a little later than planned but made good time. Crossing the malmo/copenhagen bridge into the dusk is beautiful with kastrup ablaze with lights below the thundery sky. We stayed in a small danish motel last night and are now on our way again, rødby puttgarden for the third time, drinking foul […]

Thats it, I’ve had my last curry pineapple burger and now we’re off. Departing Sweden tomorrow heading south.

The Rødby Puttgarden ferry is a little more serious than i had expected. Still, the travels are going ok so far. Back in blighty for the weekend.

What stormtroopers do on their days off Lego games Volvo 240 font Rolling SQL injection attack

Marketing? Really? No. I might be disillusioned with some parts of the consumer electronics industry, but my passion is still technology. That is unlikely to change anytime soon. Things are a little crazy here at the moment, we’re in the process of packing for taking everything back to England before heading off travelling around Europe. […]

As you know my time in Sweden is coming to an end – I finished working on Tuesday and now its time to move back to England. This time a change of job will bring with it a change of lifestyle too, since it is now clear to me that consumer electronics, and technology in […]

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world I don’t know if this is what I am looking for, I don’t think it is really. There is something to it, but I kinda see things the other way around. Not with harnessing gamers to save the world, but rather giving people who play games better […]

“…Come evangelists of the Grand New Age proclaiming the future that they stole.” Time to steal it back. Ten years since the height of the tech bubble? A lost decade? I was still coding security protocols for an embedded OS stack a decade ago, getting itchy feet when they put us on sanitising somebody elses […]