Zoomy's thing

Here we go with episode five of "which characters appear most prominently in the Peanuts comic strip". The four previous episodes ...

More lengthy blogs, that is. I'm off work for the next three days, I'll see if I can go into greater length about things.

Since this blog can apparently command the weather now, I'd just like to remind everyone how much I like warm sunny days, even in Novemb...

See, I've just gone and encouraged the fog now. Say something nice about a meteorological phenomenon and it sticks around for a full 24 ...

Really foggy out there this evening, shrouding the streetlights in mist in a way that makes me think I'm in Victorian London (only not s...

Congratulations to Yusuke Takanashi on his fourth World Othello Championship! I really need to play more othello. Maybe I'll make that a...

The World Othello Championship is happening right now in Cambridge (traditional home of British Othello, but it's never been the venue ...

There's a really quite big funfair squeezed into the small market place car park just up the road from me. It's got four hook-a-duck...

I like baths. Can't start a day without one. But why isn't the standard bathtub size "big enough so you can stretch out your wh...

And not just when they're 1-0 up against Arsenal. Supporting the Owls is sort of a Pridmore family tradition. Come on you Owls!

Hmm, how to maximise my qualifying scores for the XMT? I need to be scientific about it. Qualifying will start in January, apparently, and a...

Since I can't go to the world championship for money reasons, I think I need to dedicate my time to practicing for the XMT next year. Fo...

It must be officially winter, or at least autumn, because the clocks go back tonight and people are already setting off fireworks. I would s...

Dates have been set for next year's Extreme Memory Tournament , which now has a brand new and unbelievably extreme logo! Go and check it...

I've been re-watching the seminal Doctor Who adventure The War Games, an episode a night, for the last week. People say it's too lon...

Actually, it's tomorrow. See, they arrive in the future at 4:29pm, California time, which is half past midnight tomorrow morning in Brit...

The new series of Muppets has finally arrived on Sky 1 - they've been hyping it for months, obviously seeing it as a big priority for th...

Ah, the 1980s. The decade when I was around the same age as the characters in Peanuts are supposed to be - although the idea that they'r...

My super-longstanding 30-minute binary record is no more! Johannes Mallow beat it in Spain today, with 4356! I'm really surprised it t...

Remember that extremely cool promo video for Chinese TV earlier this year? I'll hopefully be filming something similar along those lines...