Zoomy's thing

Yay! I won an othello tournament! I was going to leave that revelation until the end of the blog post, but I'm too excited. Admittedly i...

I'm wondering if I should go to the Speed Memory World Championships . This is a different thing entirely from the World Memory Champion...

It's true, you know. Sometimes I find myself flicking through the channels after watching a fairly uninspiring Man City v Aalborg game, ...

Is coming back home and going to work all jet-lagged and tired. I want a big long holiday. At least a month, in some exotic foreign place! A...

That title is meant to represent 'more New York', only phrased in an entertaining way. I've got a feeling it didn't really w...

Now, how am I going to do this? Lots and lots to write about my New York visit, but doing it all in chronological order is so passé these da...

Yep, New York is still a cool place to be. And just like every time I go to America, the weather has been lovely, warm and sunny all day, ev...

My GOD, Excel 2007 is rubbish! Who the heck invented it? I've got it on my new laptop, and I'm going to have to download 2003, or be...

It's a bit more difficult to get to Cambridge from Beeston than it is from Derby. And even Derby was somewhat difficult - Cambridge boas...

CityRoomz, formerly known as Sleeperz, is a really nice little hotel right next to the train station in Cambridge. I always stay there for o...

It occurs to me that I'm going to have no time to get into any kind of practice routine for memory competitions for the next couple of w...

I can just about understand them releasing Thundercats DVDs with the episodes all in the wrong order - there are lots of episodes, there...

I do like watching Champions League football. I've turned into a bit of a Man Utd fan these last few years, especially in Europe, in an ...

One thing people often say to me when I'm explaining my system for turning three-digit numbers into images is "Surely it makes more...

I hadn't been to Kingston for a relatively young donkey's years, and it's funny how much the place has changed. First glance on ...

Oooh, it's been like summer! I did get a nice short summery haircut, and went down to London (and also Kingston on Thames) to see the si...

I need a haircut. My remaining hairs don't grow all that fast, but they've already got to the length where it's starting to look...

I've trimmed the fingernails on my left hand and not the right, out of an understanding that that's what ukulele players do. Well, ...

I have to confess, it's a very, very long time since I did any serious memory-training. Tonight I did something that is part of my regul...

I was going to write a blog tonight about feeling proud of myself for getting up-to-date with my emails, but then I remembered one from a fe...