Neil Hopcroft

Chocolate cell phones Lifesize mousetrap This was a purely trouser-based disaster (worksafe) Art car parade 12-Jul-2007: entry set ‘public’

OK, so I was a little premature in calling the bottom, but only a month off. Rationalisation of the company occured in more or less the way I had predicted around six months ago, theres a few details that still need working out and I’m not going to talk about that here. It *is* a […]

For reasons that will become clear over the next few weeks (indeed, may already be clear to you), this journal is becoming ‘friends only’ for a while. I don’t intend this to be a permanent change. Please feel free to call or email me.

(Ok, so I’ve gotten somewhat distracted from doing book reviews of late, its not because I’ve stopped reading…I’m still spending plenty of time on trains…just that I’ve been growing a pile of ‘things I should do when I get around to it’) This book describes a series of psychological experiments carried out in the last […]

BMW X5 prototype “Do not touch any of the wires!” Steampunk turntable Frankfurter converter Edible Skoda A short history of British road signs

Anyone about in the Fulham area during daytime who would like to help us with some user testing on our new software version?

Oh dear, and that last entry sounded rather more melancholy than I had intended – it was intended as a reflection on how things have changed in the last year, not a discussion of the exit that wasn’t. Thursday was the Fields of the Nephilim gig at the Astoria. Its been many years since I’ve […]

I close my eyes and i’m back at my last exit. I’m walking along pressing myself against the wall away from the platforms edge. I hear the sound of a train approaching, its getting closer, louder, closer. An exit. But i decide its stupid and wasteful, so i stay close to the wall to save […]

“i know that porridge isn’t usually a direction but the figure shows what i mean”

I’ve just uploaded a bunch of old photos. Let me know if theres any of you that you thoroughly disapprove of and I’ll hide them….and pass on the URL to anyone you think might be interested. More to come – I haven’t started tackling those from Japan yet.