Neil Hopcroft

Here be dragons (caution: javascript contained within may not be optimal…no, what am I saying, it *IS NOT* optimal). Sadly not real dragons, they’re a Japanese baseball team. So disappointing. Oh well, heres some other things. Be gentle with it, I’m just experimenting at the moment. This currently feeds from the few geotagged RSS feeds […]

While packing for moving to a new desk (a somewhat redundant exercise as I shall explain shortly) I found a pile of my old code review papers. With “UNSAFE” written in big red letters against around 50% of the functions. I’m gonna miss this place when its time to move on…”this isn’t the funniest job […]

We got back to Sweden to find a foot of snow, congratulations to the 9000 for starting first time despite being left for a month in temperatures down to -20C. …of course theres more catching up to do.

The cold shock is still with us. Returning from 32C in Bangkok to find a foot of snow burying the car in Sweden leaves you feeling a little…cold. And the jetlag. Thats still here too. And the catching up with everything. Only 257 mails awaiting my return at the office, I think I got off […]

When I said I’d try to update more often this isn’t quite what I had in mind. We’re now 35 minutes into a 10 minute journey across Bangkok to a cabaret show. This is an experience we call living like the locals. (written in a minibus last night but not sent since my Catalina isn’t […]

Hmm, thanks Livejournal.com, remind me that I’m useless at keeping in touch won’t you? A new year, seen in with fireworks across the bay. It will be a year that will contain some big changes, another new future. My time in Sweden is going to come to an end, so we’ll likely be moving back […]

Good things in life: meeting your mechanic at a street car festival where he’s showing off his 650bhp big block engined DeTamaso Pantera, just a little street car he keeps for the weekends…he saves his serious stuff for the track, apparently. (Of course, that is meme_me, not my mechanic)

Exoskeleton rental Robogeisha Jet merry-go-round or C5 – Caution: these may kill you. Museum of questionable medical devices Cake Wrecks Duburu cheezu Rubberduckzilla Large Mounted Bearded White Tiger Head with Swarovski Crystal Encrusted Features

Theres a bang and something is spinning in the air between me and the sun, I can’t see what it is but its not good. Its a piece of engine, that much I know, because the Volvo hasn’t moved, I duck because I can’t tell if its coming my way, something did. After a moment […]

The Last Tycoons, a secret history of the Lazard banking empire. This book takes you on a tour of the history of the Lazard Frères banking empire, starting from its origins supporting merchants in the American gold rush through to its eventual IPO. For such a hefty volume it seems to rush through much of […]