After a long hiatus caused by a harder than expected final degree year, I'm back into things. Right now I'm writing a piece of software for training in memory sports. My first project in C#/.NET and I'm already totally converted. 

None of it's is particularly hard to write, but I foresee problems. For instance, where am I going to get 500+ faces to use for practice? If anyone has any ideas...

Anyway, once it's written it'll be available from here of course.

At the moment I'm practicing my memory sports. I'd like to enter the World Championships in the summer if they'll let me, so I'll need to be better than I am now. To give an idea of my standard: my p.b. for one deck of cards is 1 minute 55 seconds. I'm working on this and I think I'll be able to get it down to a minute with some rearranging of my number people and a lot more journeys.

That brings up a problem I'm having. I'd like to have some journeys for my studies but they're too valuable as card journeys. I expect I'll need about 25 by the WC, and I've only got 7 so far. So every time I make a new journey it gets used as a card/number learning journey.

I thought about using Buzan's SEM3, but I tried it on some of the matrices given in his book and I don't think it's for me. I really don't like peg systems, though obviously some people do since they're in every memory book everywhere. So instead I'm investigating ways to create more locations. 

First is a very cunning way of getting locations by using movies. I'm trying to extract about 150 locations from the Back to the Future series right now, and I'll let you know how it goes.

Second I'm going to try and create some imaginary locations. Since they're for permanent memorisation hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a problem that they don't exist.