Zoomy's thing

I've got the latest issue of Super Hanjie, and I was intending to sit down and do puzzles this morning, but both my propelling pencils h...

To qualify for the XMT, that is. With week one, cards, out of the way, we've had 35 people record a result in the qualification competit...

I feel quite accomplished for having done two practices each day of the XMT disciplines, plus a five-minute binary, this weekend, despite th...

Looking at videos of myself memorising cards has shown me that I fiddle with my beard when I'm concentrating. I had absolutely no idea I...

Everyone is cordially invited to try to beat this time and submit it on the training website You're also invited to set your video ...

What I should have mentioned yesterday is that it was Stan Lee's 92nd birthday. He's still awesome. People who say "he created ...

There needs to be more about football on the internet, after all. So let's hear it for Southampton - half-way through the season and the...

Qualification for the XMT starts on Monday, at midnight UTC (which turns out to mean GMT, I had to look it up). There's a video demonst...

Hey, look, it's snowing!

To be fair, the season-ending two-parter was fun to watch - I don't mind it being a re-write of a story they've already done over an...

We now have a training website for the Extreme Memory Tournament! It's the kind of thing you have to pay $25 to use, which isn't so...

If you haven't seen it already, check out Nelson Dellis's blog of his World Memory Championship exploits ! Nelson is quite right t...

Are you ready? I am, anyway, but I hope you're all keeping an eye on the website and getting prepared for the qualifying. Meanwhile,...

The World Memory Championship in Haikou is almost upon us! I'm much much less prepared for it than I ever have been for a world champion...

And to think I spent most of last year being awestruck by how wonderful it was, too. It's like they've genuinely run out of ideas - ...

I should address this now, before anyone gets some funny ideas. Obviously there is a lot of money at stake here, and having a qualifying ro...

Woohoo, great news from the Extreme Memory Tournament ! Hello Extremers, finally some updates concerning next year's competition. Her...

There are people out there who think I sound very northern, but they should hear the people I work with now. It's true, Yorkshire is a v...

There's a sort of wild discussion going on at the Facebook world memory championship group at the moment about the sheer volume of peopl...

I'm pretty sure I never expected in my wildest dreams to be thirty-eight. I'm really not sure what to do about it now...