Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

Linkblast

Schneier on Boston Aqua Teen Hunger Force debacle…these people know something about marketing The iPhone – Its lipgloss, a condiment dispenser, mace, a cheesegrater, a sonogram… Museum of unworkable devices (ponders: should there be something similar for software?…anyone who says thats what sourceforge is for gets a poke in the eye) Tokyo HDR US Navy […]

Crossposting: LJ toy update.

Book review: Vigilance A defence of British Liberty by Ashley Mote

I first picked up this book because of its title. But reading the back of it, it became clear it was a book about Britains relationship with the European Union rather than one examining liberty in Britain. Still a subject about which I am under-informed, so worth a read I thought. It was soon evident […]

Linkblast – video special

Kitten vs Washing Machine Star wars, handy remake College is just a game This is your spider on drugs Rabbit vs Snake Ninja librarian Touch interface done properly

Crazy Indian Music Video

Lego death metal

Book review: Who move my Blackberry by Martin Lukes and Lucy Kellaway

With thanks to Grandi for this book. This is an utterly fantastic book, it is written as a series of emails and text messages mostly from Martin, the marketing director of a global conglomerate, to his colleagues and family, but, where pertinant, mails he receives too. It follows his life for a year, during what […]

Oh grebo, I think I love you

(for clarity, that is the genre, not any particular individual within it, or indeed the language) Last night was the Vileevils gig – they were billed as ex-PWEI but that was pretty much all I knew about them. They have a page on myspace, just like every other band these days, which gives you a […]

Another test….wondering if location field comes out in feed… ETA: no, it doesn’t

Anyone about in Camden this week?