Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
A Gen-X/Millennial cusp (Xennial), I'm old enough to remember life before the internet but not (quite) old enough to have seen Nirvana live. Or, as my wife puts it, I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.
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When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Áróra's sister is found dead, and Áróra's new financial investigation leads to the street where her sister was last seen, she is drawn into a shocking case that threatens everything This is...
16th February - 22nd February 04:00 — woke with a terrible thirst, mind racing with fever dreams. "unplug your phone, cable may be warm" warns my phone. the cable is cold, the water is tepid, the night is long I may be at my most poetic...
I can be a bit of a curmudgeon and focus on the negatives when I feel the pressure. I know it's not good for me to get into that negativity spiral so reflecting like this is important. So, without further ado, here are some things I have...
Area 11 is fronted by "Diggy Hole II" vocalist, Thomas "Sparkles*" Clarke who sounds so much like Frank Turner I had to check he wasn't. Inspired by anime and J-Rock, this Nottingham hard rock band throw out high octane pop-y inoffensive...
I devoured this said V.E. Schwab in a jacket quote either carefully written or carefully chosen because it references consuming. There is a secret race of creatures, the eponymous Book Eaters, that look like humans but are nourished by...
In the web design sense, "breadcrumbs" are the navigation helpers on many websites that show you where you are in the site — a path from where you currently are, back up the folder/URL structure, to the homepage. The terminology comes...
9th February - 15th February My phone vibrates quietly on the desk near my left hand. I put down my tea cup and pick it up. There is a local weather warning for snow. I shrug; there have been warnings like this recently that came to...
Not to get all hipster but I got into Charli XCX from being very tumblr online when she released True Romance. Her new album is the soundtrack from Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" which feels like a flex but one I'm here for! Album...
Despite my good intentions, I still spend more time on my phone than I would like to. Actually, that's no surprise considering that it's such a powerful tool. niqwithq I have written on this topic before (quoting ava and discussing how...
In my job, we work with a lot of medical content that, for various legal reasons, cannot be public-facing. We are also very aware that the internet is, by default, very public-facing. How do we, as an industry, manage the access to...
I got this email today. "So what?", you might think, "Companies send order dispatched emails all the time". The thing is, I haven't ordered anything. It's a company I use though, which is odd. Have I ordered something and forgotten?! Has...
This is a fun "challenge" from Alex on Wry Writer, who got it from David over at Forking Mad who got it from Zachary Kai (at which point we stop with the Tom Lehrer nonsense!) How many sandwiches do you eat a week? I eat a heck of a lot...
I saw this meme floating around and it hit a nerve. So much AI hate is down to the disproportionate claims about the ability of large language models or "Generative AI". AI as it stands right now it's neither artificial nor intelligent....
2nd February - 8th February I am nursing a hot cup of tea while I wait for the decongestants to kick in, allowing the steam up my nostrils and into my swollen aching sinuses. I don't know if it helps but it feels like I'm doing something...
Contrary to popular belief, Rage isn't banned. King pulled it from print in the late 1990s after it was found in the possessions of several school shooters. Far from glorifying school shooters, King wrote a book about human interaction....