The second of my videos from my spring trip to Cornwall – ‘Wave Break at Gunwalloe Church Cove’.
A few notes on Pulp’s ‘More’
So, on the 6th of June – and after two pre-release singles and a mountain of media hype – the new Pulp album ‘More’ dropped.
The Tracks
Track Listing
- Spike Island (4:42)
- Tina (3:32)
- Grown Ups (5:56)
- Slow Jam (5:06)
- Farmers Market (4:30)
- My Sex (4:25)
- Got to Have Love (4:52)
- Background Noise (3:41)
- Partial Eclipse (4:38)
- The Hymn of the North (5:40)
- A Sunset (3:14)
It’s interesting to note that while Different Class had an average track length of around four and third minutes, More has only slipped slightly to an average length of about four and a half minutes. Other groups should probably take note.
Continue reading “A few notes on Pulp’s ‘More’”It’s more than a little warm…

…why am I sat in front of a wall of screens?
A 27 Year Old Easter Egg
So apparently the firmware for a number of of the old PPC Macs had Easter Eggs embedded within them and, with the right combination of woo, you could get the firmware to spit these Easter Eggs out for you to view.

‘Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script’
Another aide-memoire so that I have the link kicking around…
There used to be a somewhat famous ThinkGeek teeshirt called ‘Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script’ that, even now, gets periodically referenced on the more tech-ish end of the internet. With ThinkGeek now lost to the mists of time, it’s not as easy to Google for as it used to be.

The 2nd Law: Isolated System / Muse (2012)
Muse’s ‘The 2nd Law: Isolated System’ from 2012.
Two Men by the Sea / Caspar David Friedrich (1817)
Happy Summer Solstice 2025! And to celebrate, here’s Caspar David Friedrich’s Two Men by the Sea from 1817 showing the 1816 Year Without a Summer.

Boots / Fabricated Girls (2025)
Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
Nice Seagull, Shame about the Bin…
Another yarn-bombed post-box after the one I found in Malton – this time it can be found in the rather lovely Runswick Bay! It’s slightly smaller than the Malton topper, however the views more than make up for the reduction is size.
It’s just a shame that bin is there…
