Zoomy's thing

Cityroomz was fully booked, after all my talk of tradition last night. I'm having to stay in a nicer, more expensive place instead. Trad...

It's that time of the year when I book a room in the Cityroomz hotel in Cambridge at the last minute, for the Cambridge International th...

So, a Japanese TV company wants to fly me out to Japan and interview me and have me do some kind of interesting memory stunt in a studio and...

Seriously, I spend all day playing around with Excel spreadsheets at work, and sometimes I just want to come home and play with Excel spread...

Perhaps that thing I could do instead of memory is learn to play othello properly? I've been at the same unimpressive kind of level for ...

Okay, we get an extra bonus blog post tonight, because I've just noticed something weird about that Comic Library I bought today. It...

The charity shops around here seem to be full of great stuff all of a sudden. Just today, I found the Dennis the Menace book from 1960,...

I'm sorry my blogging has been a bit sporadic just lately, but very little of interest has been happening around here. I did some really...

Winter, that's what. When's it going to stop being all cold and nasty? If you're thinking that I haven't blogged enough just...

There's an advert on telly, for tellies or something, with a sort of winter-olympics theme. I've never really paid much attention to...

I'm just not in the mood to memorise. I feel like I need some kind of new challenge. Basically, I feel exactly like I did five years ago...

I'm thirty-three-and-a-third years old, either today or tomorrow, depending on how you look at it. Tomorrow if you pretend that the year...

Hey, is it the Winter Olympics? I hadn't really seen any build-up to it on TV or anywhere. Perhaps I should keep in touch with things mo...

My blog has recently been repeatedly attacked by evil robots posting lots of links to what I assume to be naughty websites (they're most...

No, not the memory kind, a different kind. I was out on a Microsoft Access training course today - I'm great with Excel, but I've ne...

At the weekend, I bought for 20p from a market stall "Hunter Davies's Bigger Book Of British Lists", published in 1982. It...

I did the lottery last night, for the first time in a while (I buy a ticket every time I'm sitting at my computer on a Saturday and an a...

If by 'evil', we're talking in terms of the sin of sloth, and by 'genius' we mean the kind of person who can remember th...

Remember this blog post last month, when I couldn't think of a plausible way to fill the missing line in that poem? The above line came...

Weekend - memory. Lots of it. Until I've memorised so much that I can't remember anything ever again, up to and including my own nam...