Zoomy's thing

I haven't done much but watch TV today. I did go to the trouble of shuffling 33 packs of cards with the intention of memorising them, th...

The lastest strategy of those dedicated people who bring you automated spam emails to confound the evil schemes of anti-spam programs is to ...

I just turned off the snooker on BBCi when the match finished, which took me back to BBC2, where Mastermind was on. And the woman in the big...

In three days' time, it will be the tenth anniversary of me starting my first job. Ten years as a wage slave! It doesn't bear thinki...

A few months ago I started on a new memory training regimen, which I've stuck with very impressively by my standards - every night I mem...

I know lots of cool people who are lefties, and it makes me feel depressingly normal to be right-handed. It has been pointed out that my han...

I was going to write in more detail about all those great cartoon videos I found yesterday, but I've noticed that whenever I've writ...

I'm at Crispy's house, after a barbecue and watching of Buck Rogers (1953 compilation of the 1930s series). Dialogue during setting ...

I went to Burton today to get a new bike, since that was as quick as walking to Halfords in Derby, and while I was waiting for it to be read...

What a lovely, sunny day! It was even quite warm if you were in the direct sunlight - too hot to go around in a leather jacket, if not quite...

My boss bought everyone in the department a Cadbury's creme egg! It's the little things that impress me, you see. I'd rather hav...

It's a four-day weekend coming up! And I'm really, really looking forward to it. I feel like I could spend the whole of Easter in be...

And the flaming thing's practically brand new, and I have a feeling it came with a guarantee, which I almost certainly threw away along ...

My mind's a blank. I was going to write about something specific, too. Well, I'll write about it tomorrow.

...at least have the sense to do it on a work day. I've been suffering from half a tin of tuna today. I assume it was the tuna, anyway. ...

The service was exactly the right kind of thing - non-religious and simple. His preference would have been for us not to bother at all, of c...

It's getting round to time for appraisals at work. We've all got a form to fill in and guidelines to the company's Performance A...

Every week, Horace Fish, a man with various fraudulent legal credentials, answers your questions about the law. Dear Horace My neighbour rec...

Admittedly that isn't a feeling I have very often - I've got more TV channels than anyone needs already, although I could always do ...

A few months ago, the bit that holds the rear wheel in place went missing off my bike. I don't know if someone was trying to steal it bu...