Zoomy's thing

It's nice to be reminded why I don't want to be a celebrity. Spent the best part of two hours tonight being filmed pretending to mem...

If I was a more assertive person, I'd tell all these interview-happy people pestering me at the moment to collectively bog off. I didn...

And can't think of anything to write, but I've been doing so well at this daily diary thing that I'm not going to stop now. I wa...

You see, this is why I wouldn't be a very good celebrity. I've spent way too much time today talking with and emailing the radio and...

I've had a great weekend's training, and the conclusion is that I'm not at quite the level I was last year, but I'm getting ...

I was planning to write about my memory training and plans for some last-second changes to my techniques tonight, but then I discovered poss...

Everyone's after interviewing me now. The BBC want to do a bit about the world memory championships for the 'Child of our Time' ...

I got round to watching Extras for the first time tonight. It's basically The Office with added celebrities, and I found tonight's e...

Well, you're probably not, actually. But if you should happen to listen to him next Tuesday, you might hear him talking to me about the ...

It occurs to me that anyone reading this who was enthralled by my ramblings of last week would want to know that I did eventually get hold o...

The Mind Sports Olympiad is a big annual event involving competitions in dozens of different mental games and skills, and I've been to a...

If he'd been born Ben Pridmore, that book would have been a lot shorter. However, it would still have been a good read. I cheerfully adm...

This is the first time I've been to London since the bomb things. The only noticeable difference is that half the underground lines are ...

I also think the universe is laughing at me. When I took a week off in February and went to Las Vegas I got the flu and spent most of the ti...

I just won an othello tournament on VOG. It mainly involved a lot of lucky swindles and wins despite playing fairly badly, but hey. Anyway, ...

I went out for lunch yesterday specifically in order to buy the comics I hadn't been able to get at the weekend, only to find that Forbi...

In the middle of eating my dinner and watching cartoons tonight, I had a phone call from my mother, of all people. This being the first time...

I'd like to comment on it without spoiling the ending for anyone who hasn't read it yet, but I can't really. So consider this a ...

"It's the first trophy I've ever won!" whispered Ed next to me on the stage, proudly examining his prize for being the sec...

German keyboards are particularly difficult to get to grips with when your name´s Zoomy. The Y and Z are in the wrong places. Also, the back...