Neil Hopcroft

Work permit nearly sorted. Looks like next week is probably my last week in the UK for the moment. I’m aiming to come back for Whitby in November.

I gave up waiting for the Oxford crew at the Temple at about 9.20 – I’d decided that everyone had gone somewhere and I was going to set out to try to find them. Just as I was leaving I phoned edling to see him walking into the carpark…turns out that there wasn’t a devious […]

Just had my ‘welcome to jobseekers allowance filling in the form over the phone’ call. What a bizarre experience, they obviously don’t trust me to fill in the form myself. Next I get to meet with an advisor on friday who will put me through some ritual humiliation of some sort before I can claim […]

Is the conclusion for company name. Assuming they actually deliver the right one this time – they arsed around somewhat with timetrack so we ended up with Timetrack UK Ltd.

Christians birthday party – Cambridge A final chance to catch up with some the old Cambridge crew before I leave these shores. Good to see them all again, even if I didn’t get to talk to them much. I got trapped in the kitchen by a drunk psychiatric nurse (well, he said he was a […]

My first day as a doley and I’m up at 930…hrumph…thats not supposed to happen. Maybe I’ll get into it over the next couple of weeks.

Today I became officially between jobs – my last day was…interesting. I just went in to pick up some odd bits and pieces. As I was leaving at 5:30, someone pulled me aside and suggested that I should stay around for a meeting with some members of the board at 6. So, I ended up […]

This is the first in a series of brief, random and intermittent book reviews… Travels in Dreamland is a peculiar book about Area 51 and its relation to the UFO watching community in America. It describes the birth of the skunkworks, a fascinating and extremely intense lab/research department. There is also a lot of discussion […]

I’d forgotten just how good Lords of the New Church were.