Neil Hopcroft

From time to time I buy myself a little devboard to tinker with, mostly they are ESP32 based these days, there’s a nice ecosystem around them and they work with the Arduino devtools. I’m going to try to record pertinent information about these boards in a place where I can find it again – the […]

My hosting provider started complaining that I was faulting. Which seemed a bit weird because I was fundamentally the only person using my server, and it isn’t like I was pushing very hard. I figured this was more about upselling me to a service I don’t really need than actual problems. So I started down […]

At last, I have now gone through all of the unpublished comments that have built up on this blog over the last few years and marked most of them as spam. The automatic filters got a lot of them but they left me with quite a collection of verbose comments to sift through – these […]

Oh, while I remember, that nasty long unpronouncable email address has been nicified, replace pe5feugnmu1ujbn7d9wc with neilh

I fear they might have pulled my SMTP access after my address mailout…anyone got a mailserver I can use? Or it might just be the service is out for routine maintanance but theres no way I can tell ‘cos all the status info is Japanese :( Or maybe I need to pay for a POP […]

At last, some time for an update…

The external disk has now arrived, though without its firewire card. So copying all the mp3s is going to take *ages* over USB1.

Should I buy a laptop now? If I do, I would get one with manuals I can understand. And I could set it up before I go. If I leave it til I get to Japan, it’ll probably work out cheaper (if I can avoid any of their gaijin rip-off specials) and I wouldn’t have […]

I wonder how difficult an EPOC port of an LJ client would be?