Zoomy's thing

I really wish I didn't have to go home today. Is there a way I can stay in Canada that won't cost me a) any money or b) my job? It...

I'm here on Westminster Bridge and there are dinosaurs. No, hang on, I'm in Edmonton, and there aren't enough dinosaurs, but the...

Here I am in Edmonton, Alberta! It's VERY cold, but also nice and sunny and a really great city! There's a truly excellent comic sho...

And a very boring airport it is too, hence the blogging. But still, I'm on my way to Canada!

But even though tomorrow's a whole hour shorter than the average day, I'm going to do some more extensive old-school pen-and-paper m...

Here's a fun trivia question for anyone who's as big a fan as me of the works of Wilkie Collins - he was strangely fond of giving su...

What do you think I've been doing all day today? Well, I'll tell you, we won't make it a guessing game (because you'd probab...

I don't mention nearly enough that I went to school with Robert Webb. It's an important claim to fame, you know. Nobody's heard ...

As well as splashing out on plane tickets this month, I treated myself to something I really should have bought long before now - the colle...

As I've mentioned once or twice before, Alpha Flight is an all-time favourite comic of mine. And the localities the superheroes visit in...

Wow, twice in one winter we've had huge deep snow! It's the kind of thing that gives me a good excuse to say "when I were a lad...

Another reason I need to play more othello, which I forgot to mention in my blog yesterday (to be fair, I wrote it after coming back from th...

"You don't remember me?" said Matthias Berg, who is a) someone I've met multiple times before now, and b) a really big dea...

Having found out I don't have to do something else this weekend (it's a something else I might hopefully be able to tell you all abo...

Rest in peace, Grandma. It was a very nice funeral, exactly what she would have wanted - thanks to Pam for arranging everything.

You've probably heard me mention it once or twice before, but the place to be right now (if you're at all interesting in competitiv...

Among the many people I admire in this world are the ones who do cool things with old video games. Here's a wonderful YouTube video chro...

According to Blogger's stats page, I've had absolutely oodles of pageviews in the last day or so, directed at the Hourman-themed pos...

I don't think I could calculate how long it's been, in fact. But the Mental Calculation World Cup is still going strong! Here's ...