Back at the junction of 2010 and 2011, for whatever reason, I neglected to record a retrospective of the previous year’s music-listening activity – or indeed, any sort of look back at the preceding twelve months. These gaps in recorded history niggle at me; like a lot of anally-retentive computer nerds I am an inveterate… [read more]

These road signs strike me as slightly scary. The caption reads “Area protected by DNA-spray” but it’s not entirely clear how that process works. Will the spray somehow extract my own DNA for later identification purposes? Perhaps it will make bits of me drop off for police retrieval. Or maybe the sign is trying to… [read more]

  Finally the scaffolding and coverings have been (mostly) removed from the new Stedelijk Museum at the south-west end of Museumplein, and the new building is looking pretty impressive. Like so much modern Dutch architecture it is big on counterweighted overhanging parts (see for example the various hotels and things up near the central library),… [read more]