Zoomy's thing

Despite what I said yesterday, I'm not feeling well, so I decided to give the German open a miss. We'll have to wait till next week ...

Tomorrow I make tracks for Niebüll, where I've never been before - I'm still finding new places to explore in Germany, however many ...

I've seen some people criticising that advert that uses a version of "Little Boxes" as its jingle to sell mobile phones or wha...

Every month, lulu.com send me a small amount of money from the sales of my book. What surprises me about it is that having sunk to a low of ...

I'm safely back from Bilbao, having neatly swapped places with the travelling army of Man Utd fans, who I'm sure will love the place...

Wow, I don't think I've EVER worked a twelve-hour day before. This is why I've never advanced in my career, obviously - the hot-...

I'm in the slightly embarrassing position of not knowing any more vocabulary than "no habla espanol", but that's not norma...

I can write about this with impunity - I've just been to a pub in Bilbao with the Spanish crew to watch Man Utd get well and truly troun...

Wow, I've got a lot to talk about. It'll have to be another week or so, because I'll spoil the surprise otherwise (not that big ...

Okay, tomorrow I'm jetting off to Bilbao, at ironically the same time as the football-loving people of Bilbao are coming to Manchester. ...

I'm going to Spain next Wednesday, almost certainly, on another secret project that I'll tell you about later. My life is full of se...

Looking at the new othello ratings, I notice not only that mine hasn't tumbled too drastically after last weekend, but also that I'v...

I've mentioned it before, but you should really be reading The Order of the Stick , the funniest webcomic out there, and also the clever...

Although there are possibly worse global calamities than me coming last in an othello tournament, it's still deeply upsetting. But on th...

How long has it been since I came to Cambridge? There's two new platforms on the railway station and a whole pile of new buildings! I...

Othello again! I haven't really played properly for ages - the Sheffield regional recently was about the only time in six months at leas...

Gary Friedrich is in the comic-related news lately. With the latest Ghost Rider movie not doing spectacularly well at the box office, the la...

It's Pancake Day, which means it's Lent tomorrow, which seems like a good time to not only give up cherry coke, but also to make sor...

I went to get my hair cut this morning, and it turns out the guy who won £45 million on the lottery this week is a regular there. His dad wa...

You know what, no more accountancy. It's a rubbish career. I finish my temp job on Friday, and then I'm going to make a concerted ef...