Neil Hopcroft

This book is a whirlwind tour of all the threats posed to the human race, examining in turn technological, political, natural, scientific and philosophical threats to mankind. It would be easy for this to be a depressing book, but somehow it manages to remain reasonably upbeat, even given its premise that there is a good […]

It’s not like i actually wanted to go home tonight anyway. With thanks to southwest trains for their utterly unflapable inability to run anything resembling a service. Just as i thought things were going well this week because yesterday mornings train ran on time, which already put them ahead on last week. Not to mention […]

Its been a hard week….I’ve finally gotten a release out (its still got a few hoops to go through before it hits the live service, maybe more later if I’m still feeling excited enough about it by the time it hits the air), with a rejection on the final stage of testing because the test […]

Playing with eyemags beta, I made: Wrecked exotics and Theatre decay (install on your java enabled mobile phone for broken cars ‘on the road’)

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This is a collection of stories about business failures, they vary in length from a couple of paragraphs to about 20 pages, so there is quite a lot of easy to dip into reading. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t much in the way of analysis of *why* they were failures, rather just […]

Its not every day that I wake up and think “I must go to Andover”. Having now been I think that is probably a good thing. It got off to a bad start when someone aspiring to be an Essex boy tried to scam me for his parking money – the walk from the car […]

With thanks to Marcus Kuhn for his Unicode FAQ….without which I would be even more confused than I am now.

Who in their right mind books a dentist appointment on Monday morning?

I can’t be the only one who wants to add an ‘L’ to that bumper sticker, can I? Could be worse, could be a jag with ‘curse control’. I ate too much chilli. Well, maybe it was just too hot, my face is on fire and I had to sit motionless for a few minutes […]