Zoomy's thing

Nord Anglia plc's financial year ends on August 31st. They'll want the annual accounts done as quickly as possible after that date, ...

This is the second time in two weeks I've lamented about drinking too much, so I apologise, but obviously I'm turning into one of th...

On the train home tonight a twenty-something woman got on at Burton behind me carrying a cat in one of those cases you carry cats around in,...

An extra post tonight, because I've just watched the first episode of "The Armstrongs", the BBC2 fly-on-the-wall documentary a...

I'm going out to the pub with work people tomorrow night, to celebrate Colin's 21st birthday, and I choose to count this as being in...

Tonight's European football matches kick off in fifteen minutes, and I still haven't decided which one to watch. Arsenal or Liverpoo...

As I've previously mentioned, my favourite website in the world is offline at the moment. And Captain Vegetable, the owner and creator o...

Apologies for not posting anything over the weekend. As I've mentioned before, it's kind of inhibiting to write this while I've ...

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....