Zoomy's thing

After all my whining yesterday, the weather was actually quite nice today, and almost warm - certainly nice enough to cycle from Leicester t...

It's the Oadby regional tomorrow, and I traditionally (ie for the last two years) take my bike on the train to Leicester and cycle out t...

England lost to Germany in the semi-final of the hockey world cup today. You'd think they would have been more considerate, knowing how ...

I've been trying to lose weight for the last couple of weeks, in a half-hearted, still-eating-lots-of-sweets kind of way. But it just oc...

I haven't been on TV for ages. This must be what it's like to be a normal person, instead of a major celebrity. Unless that other Ja...

I got a computer-virus thing on my laptop today - one of those fake security tool things that takes over your machine and tries to persuade ...

The fifth Cambridge Memory Championship (wow! five years!) takes place on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010, at Trinity College, Cambridge. It's par...

That's one of those blog titles I've wanted to use ever since I encountered that particularly awful rhyme in the strange Abba song ...

Tch, it's the US Memory Championship on Saturday, and I can't use it as an excuse to visit New York this year, because I've got ...

I got an email today offering to use my amazing memory skills to win a fortune at blackjack and make me and my generous correspondent millio...

Having acquired a complete collection of Buffy the Vampire Slayer videos recently, as I probably mentioned in my blog, I've been watchin...

I was really taken by surprise today to notice that it's March. High time I sprung into action and did something new. To start with, I...

The coolest thing about the Cambridge International is generally the meals. Okay, there are people who go there wanting to win the othello t...

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,...