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As I finish putting together my annual playlist of music I discovered and enjoyed this year, my mind wanders back to all the ways I’ve consumed music over the last four decades.

I recently moved to an iPhone 17 Pro after two years with an iPhone 15 Pro.

A recent news article about the start of electrification of an 88 km train route1 in the Netherlands made me realize that diesel engines are still in use here.

A recent news article about the start of electrification of an 88 km train route1 in the Netherlands made me realize that diesel engines are still in use here.

My e-bike’s odometer clocked 500 kms today.

I lived in Bangalore for 9 years and yet never visited Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace.

Another year, another playlist - Spotify | Youtube Music I start each year with a silly and irrational fear of not discovering enough worthwhile music to fill a playlist of 50 or so tracks.

A previously unknown work by Mozart was discovered in a library at Leipzig last month.

March in Amsterdam this year was quite rainy.

Given how much Marken is part of my personal cycling lore, I am surprised that I never managed to bike there all the way from Amsterdam.

I learned to bike in my 30s.

Those of you reading this blog on an RSS reader, might have noticed that several old posts reappeared in your feed yesterday.

With each passing year it is getting harder to remember how it really felt to live through the pandemic years.

Lisbon has several spacious public squares.

The municipality of Amsterdam deploys extra cleaning crews at night to clean up the mess people leave after the King’s Day celebrations.

The novelty of King’s Day has completely worn off for us by now.

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) publish a dataset of average monthly temperatures recorded at various weather station in the Netherlands since 1901.

The Netherlands recorded the warmest February on record this year.

While we had had a rainy start to our day, by the time we walked to the Terreiro do Paço ferry terminal the sun was looking to come out.

Lisbon’s iconic yellow trams are quite the tourist attraction.

In less than a year, the quality of the images generated by DALL·E has improved dramatically.

When I had moved to Bangalore in the early 2000s, The Opera House building at the end of Brigade Road (one that meets Residency Road), was already well past its prime.

Each year I make a playlist of 52 or so songs that I absolutely loved that year.

I visited Bangalore recently after a gap of over eleven years.

On our balcony we have two large, rectangular planters in which we plant all manner of random flowers and enjoy watching them bloom from spring till the end of summer1.

Consider all possible three letter combinations of the English alphabet.

I’ll start this post with the obligatory photo of the Mediterranean taken from our hotel’s balcony.

The Internet Archive also archives physical books.

Mansi recently drew my attention to this outdoor marketing campaign by Polaroid.

The Netherlands reintroduced a deposit scheme (‘statiegeld’) on plastic bottles (PET) in 2021.

The view from our hotel’s balcony on the third morning of our stay promised a mixed bag weather-wise.

We woke up to a beautiful sunrise the next day.