Zoomy's thing

Looking at the blogspot stats, I see that someone found this blog by googling "Come along and we can cross a bridge together". Fiv...

Today is apparently the 140th anniversary of Stanley presuming that he'd found Dr Livingstone. Which means that while they were faffing ...

I've done some weird things in my time, but today was the weirdest, the grooviest and certainly among the downright-awesomest. It's ...

Is it me, or am I spending a lot of time in Wales these days? A few years ago I was telling anyone who might be interested (there were few s...

Don't you hate it when you're in the mood to just lie around in front of the telly and there's nothing watchable on any channel ...

With it being nice and sunny and warm-ish-for-November today, I thought I'd explore National Cycle Route 6 beyond the stretch between No...

I always take a great nerdish interest in the monthly American comic sales figures, but never more so than now, when I want to see whether D...

I've been so wrapped up in that other business that I haven't even looked at the scores of the World Othello Championship until tod...

I'm not going. It's a month before the competition, and all we're hearing is debates about whether it's going to happen, whe...

It's official, I like DC Comics enough now that I'm going to have to place a standing order in a comic shop to make sure I get my co...

Sorry for the lack of bloggery this last week or so. I'm now gainfully unemployed again, and I've been down in Cardiff today for wha...

I love the Legion of Super-Heroes! No, not the current comic that I was so rude about last month; that's still incomprehensible rubbish ...

A Halloween party is one of the very few social occasions where it's appropriate to wear a Brazilian Mystery Cloak. That, with the black...

Perhaps I don't blog enough about what I'm actually doing with my life. An anonymouse reacted with surprise to yesterday's post ...

I got an email today from a BBC journalist asking if I'd do an interview to go along with an article about forgetting. I called her back...

Well, that last post on the subject of the much-changed World Memory Championship provoked comment either from three people or from one pers...

Latest from the WMSC: The World Memory Sports Council would like to apologise to competitors for the recent uncertainties that have surround...

I did have a really completely brilliant birthday in London with some really brilliant people. And who knows, maybe the rest of the year wil...

That was the theme tune to the so-bad-it's-good Captain America cartoon in the sixties, with super-limited animation copied directly fro...

I'm going to be 35 on Friday, and that's the worst age it's possible to be. No more ticking the "25 to 34" box on surv...