Zoomy's thing

I'm trying to motivate myself to tidy up a bit around here. I think it's a losing battle, but it does need doing. I've washed my...

Watching an unexceptional game of football tonight, Bolton v Marseille in the Uefa Cup (the European competition for teams not good enough t...

Well, since nobody thought to send me a card or present (shame on you all), I've been trying to decide what the most romantic thing anyb...

I've just been looking at my games from the weekend, using Zebra the othello program. Oh, and hey, it's called Zebra because it'...

That seems to be a recipe for success in othello tournaments. Although that's based on a very dodgy premise, assuming that I would have ...

The Dandy isn't generally worth reading. It never has been, really, although it's had its moments over the years, it's always be...

The US Memory Championship has just announced (at rather short notice) that it will be adopting a radical new format, with different events ...

I really don't care whether the company I work for makes a profit or not. I care about accurately reporting how much profit or loss it...

Actually, it really doesn't. I've just spent the day doing the most complex, tedious part of my regular monthly job, and I still qui...

I know I didn't want anybody to see me on telly, but I'm a bit annoyed by the fact that nobody saw me on telly. Doesn't anyone i...

I wasn't going to watch it, but in the end I couldn't resist it. Could have been worse, I suppose - it could have gone on longer tha...

That's the final line of a Tony Buzan poem. It just about qualifies as 'profound', as per my promise of the last couple of days....

I promised to be profound and fascinating tonight, but I forgot that I'm going out with work people, so I haven't got time. Tomorrow...

I turned my computer back on specifically to say that.

Should I eat those hot cross buns in my kitchen cupboard? I've got three of them left - they were six for a pound in Sainsbury's, so...

Boston United's website is lamenting that the team is 72nd (and last) in the Coca-Cola "Win A Player" league table at the mom...

One thing I don't think I've mentioned enough on this here blog before is that I really, really love the Beatles. I'm listening ...

So I was just about to start blogging about journeys, mindful that I keep dropping memory-jargon like that into this thing without bothering...

I'm now the age my dad was when I was conceived. This isn't just a mathematical curiosity to me, it makes me think about how I'd...

I noticed that the brilliant film "Peter's Friends" is on Channel 4 tonight, at 1:45am. I had a vague memory that my video of ...