Zoomy's thing

The Mind Sports Olympiad will be happening from August 17-25, and I've decided I'll be going along, for the first time in a good fe...

While I'm on the subject, let me present another curiosity from my cartoon video collection... Never shown on British TV, and must...

I'm pleased to report that I now own a copy of Birds of Prey, volume 7 of The Formators! If you're wondering why that's a ...

"Remember the olympic games? Wasn't it cool? By the way, we're putting our prices up." That's the slightly strange m...

I don't think I've mentioned this on the blog yet - the Friendly Memory Championship takes place on July 26, at Attenborough Nature ...

I might have to reconsider moving to Belper six months ago. I did know from working here that the power occasionally goes out if the weather...

A great article including a very nice video about the Extreme Memory Tournament  can be found at the New York Times website . Check it out! ...

I've done a 30-minute cards and then 30-minute binary practice today, you know. It must be the first time in a long long while that I...

I've probably said enough about the Extreme Memory Tournament now, but if you're still eager to read more, check out Nelson's su...

I really want to organise a UK Extreme Memory Tournament. Nelson and Simon are all in favour of having local competitions happen as much as ...

Yes, it really is sad that the star of Who Framed Roger Rabbit has died, it was a completely wonderful movie that I really love, and he was ...

I'm finally home! Here's what I wrote on the train while trying to get here... Back home, sort of. What with tube strikes and then...

It's been a sort of extreme memory-family reunion this weekend - not just with fifteen other memory masters and their families and frien...

Well, everybody arrived safely for the run-through of how the whole XMT thing will work - and it will work extremely well, by the looks of t...

I'm here at the scenic Dart Neuroscience building waiting for the competitor registration to start. It really is scenic - mountains and ...

We're just a week away from a whole lot of Extremeness in San Diego! I've been annoyingly busy at work and haven't been able to ...

Interviews with the top favourites for the Extreme Memory Tournament (and also with me) can be seen on that link. But the main reason to tu...

Yesterday it was the Welsh Memory Championship in the scenic surroundings of Llanover. I got a lift there and back courtesy of Darren and Cl...

I have been practicing for the Extreme Memory Tournament for the last week, morning and evening. Except yesterday, when I had a hangover. Bu...

It seems like ages since I went to an othello tournament. And incidentally, Blogger, stop auto-capitalising "othello", please - I...