Zoomy's thing

I bought a lottery ticket today, which I don't normally do (I was feeling a bit depressed, and thought that since money is the secret to...

It's just occurred to me that I really should book flights and accommodation for the German Memory Championship in three weeks' time...

I turned down a job offer today on purely financial grounds. I feel like such a money-obsessed miser. Well, mostly financial grounds, anyway...

The TV series, Heroes, is really much better than it has any right to be. I love it to bits! They really have taken comic book superheroes a...

I bought a book about Jack the Ripper at the weekend, which makes entertaining reading. It's not really my kind of thing, normally, but ...

Ah, the Mind Sports Olympiad returns! I got the schedule and entry form in the post today. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to bother w...

I did 1224 in 30-minute numbers today, and possibly 18 packs in 30-minute cards (I couldn't be bothered to check them, but I'm prett...

I've got a sore throat from talking too much. This is what happens when I get chatting about memory to someone who knows nothing about i...

Nobody has ever said that to me on the street. I wish they would. Well, I did use to get "Hey, it's Adrian Mole!" shouted at m...

Until ten minutes ago, I had a definite plan for this blog entry. In fact, I had the whole thing just about written in my head, and I was ju...

Ah, now I'm really in the memory-championship-season mood! Radio 4 want to interview me! I assume it's because they know the UK cham...

I really can't think of anything to write about. Or rather, I can, but the one observation I want to make is an extremely rude and offen...

By which I mean that I've got several things I want to grumble about, and also something to enthuse about that I think is just great. I...

... has it started raining all the time just when I've started having to cycle to and from work on a daily basis? Actually, that's o...

I haven't really hyped the UK Memory Championship here before, as far as I can remember, and today seems like a good time, since Phil...

If you happen to be passing a comic shop this weekend, go in and pick up a copy of Mantlo: A Life In Comics. It's a magazine/book/someth...

I think I'd be better off not splashing out on two German trips in two months, all in all. I'll stay at home this weekend and practi...

Sorry I didn’t post anything last night, I had a headache and went for a lie down at around eight o’clock, and didn’t wake up till two in th...

Thanks to the people who were going to remind me about the interview tomorrow, but I forgot to tell you that they changed it and made it tod...

I'm fairly certain the plural of anonymous is anonymice. 'Anonymouses' doesn't look right. Anyway, I seem to be getting quit...