Zoomy's thing

I know I probably say this every year, but it's so great when the football season starts again. Match Of The Day on a Saturday night is ...

One last practice of memory stuff this weekend, then two days of work, then I've got Wednesday off to travel down to London before the c...

The press release for this year's UK Memory Championship is basically last year's press release with a few subtle changes, so it sti...

There's no getting around it, I need to work. I've had the day off, all by myself, the brother's gone back to China, and I'v...

Hooray, because I've got my new Order of the Stick book today - not reprints of the awesome webcomic, which has just passed its 800th e...

I seem to be getting a lot of news updates about mind sports lately, so I felt that I should pass them on. The World Memory Championship has...

As I've mentioned on this blog once or twice before, I'm fascinated by the work of "Marc", the illustrator of cheap cartoo...

... You might want to check out Rrrants at "Laughing Horse at the Pear Tree", which might be a pub, although the website doesn...

My computer developed a thing where Internet Explorer and Firefox kept trying to open new windows, so I did a search on google and found tha...

So this will do for tonight.

There are three memory competitions in the next month and a half, that hopefully I'll be going to if I've got enough money. The U...

Yesterday I saw myself in a mirror and thought I looked really quite good. This doesn't happen very often (because, let's face it, I...

"The Door" is a 1968 cartoon which is probably on YouTube, but is impossible to find because it's just called "The Door...

Temporarily back with Boots again for the short-term future - exactly how short-term depends on whether a regular work schedule helps me wit...

The Cambridge Memory Championship this year was a resounding success, I thought. Held at Attenborough Nature Reserve, which is nowhere near ...

Talking with my brother while looking through our collection of old toys (or, in most cases, small pieces of old toys that fell apart long a...

I don't remember ever being as busy as I have been for the last month or so. I'm running around from place to place doing one thing ...

I'm in Newark Airport right now, waiting for my connecting flight back home - I should be still in the air en route from St Louis, but m...

Without giving away any details, here's a summary of an email exchange with the good people at The Gadget Show: I: So, you don't act...

I think the pilot was cooler, actually - maybe it was just because we'd all done it before, but the 'real' filming didn't se...