Must read ‘Why I turned Pepys’ diary into a weblog’ and the blog itself when I get time.

What do you call cheese that doesn’t belong to you?
Nacho cheese!

http://iusedtobelieve.com/ “a collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children”
I used to think there was a rule that your top clothes had to be a darker colour than your bottom clothes.
I had a friend (otherwise very smart) who used to ride his bike into walls. I wonder if this is him under an assumed name: “I used to think that if I hit myself hard enough in the right spot on my head, I could knock free the 80% of brain we don’t use, and would become super-human. This resulted in many tragic childhood accidents involving books and walls”
And I liked this one:
“My father was evil.
I used to watch the Wonder Woman live-action TV show, and when the show was over, I would spin around in the livingroom, like Wonder Woman did, thinking if I spun fast enough, I met get her swimsuit, the truth-telling lasso, and all her outfit.
Dad would encourage me while mother would scold him. “Keep spinning! Faster! I think I see the lasso!” “Gayle! Stop that! You’ll make her so dizzy she’ll get sick!” “I see the tiara! Keep going!”
I’d spin until I fell over onto the couch and couldn’t stand up straight, and he’d tell me he was sure I’d get it next time. I totally believed him.”

It’s not often you get to say, ‘Sorry I’m late for work, the buses were redirected because of the siege‘.

New year’s resolutions: must see the Aztecs, Durer and Titian exhibitians, and Jerry Springer The Opera.

Predictive text on my phone doesn’t know ‘bugger’ but the same letters spell ‘curses’. Bless.
Back in London after a few days in Amsterdam and Athens.

It’s snowing! (In Amsterdam).

BBC: “The return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece has been simulated in a virtual reality exhibition, showing how the Parthenon treasures would look if they went back to Athens.”
And Neil MacGregor, the new director of the British Museum couldn’t resist a dig at countries that dare to ask for items of their cultural heritage back – “He said it was “very disturbing”, “anti-world” and “worryingly nationalistic” of countries who wanted to reclaim what they had made.”
As opposed to worryingly nationalistic countries that won’t give back things they’ve taken from the countries that made them.

New hate mail about Shania: “You are stupid.You are some guy who wants money.so you lie. i have read books on her and i belive what they say.So you can take your lies and make money,but you won’t get money from me.”
Not sure how I’m meant to be making money from it, but anyway.

Happy New Year! Had an ace time in Amsterdam, then did the tourist thing around Leiden today.