Neil Hopcroft

Doll face Rolls-Royce pickup conversion Chocolate racecar INT13 still alive and kicking Chocolate offsetting Death by a 1000 Cutts Fun with explosive gases Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel Scope clock 6502 in Javascript Kit car USB everything

Saturday we were Peters guests at Diamond Light Source. It was a fascinating tour with plenty of information about what we were seeing. It is a new particle accelerator they have recently built in the contryside south of Oxford, with the main holding ring running at 3GeV – enough to be twice as bright as […]

SMS from unknown number: “OK send me a pick fitcop” How should I respond?

Todays meeting wasn’t quite the horrorshow I was expecting – it was a lecture by a consultant about best practices in the industry. Most of which I’ve heard before, but which was frightening because of its apparent novelty to some of my co-workers. So, although there was a minor joke about ditching my part of […]

Some time ago I promised an update. But as you all know I’m useless, so I haven’t gotten around to it until now. And everything has disappeared in some kind of caffeine fueled haze where new memories replace the old before they’re successfully archived, maybe its a kernel race condition, maybe its just broken. Now, […]

Whos up for 69 Eyes on 31st? Its a thursday night in an unspecified venue in London, but they’re really rather good and I think you should come along.

If you can read this sign its too late. Stick it to ’em Rice Boy (or what not to look for in a car….amused by the appearance of a stock 1982 Datsun estate near the end which seems somewhat out of place against the background of ambient weirdness). Scalextric heaven When you’ve got to go […]

I would like to say Thank you to South West Trains for the kind of Excellent Customer Service[0] that leaves a hundred passengers outside Epsom station just after midnight wondering where they might find a bus to their final destination. I had a choice of waiting for a bus with the rabble or walking – […]

Mouse mouse C is for cemetary Rocking squirrels (or are they hamsters?) Coming soon: a series of posts about some of what I’ve been up to over the last couple of weeks – I’ve been so busy doing things theres not been time to write about any of it