I literally just bought a new notebook to replace the near-full battered Moleskine that permanently lives in my back pocket. Then I saw this! The lines are watermarked, not printed so they basically are invisible! One of those ridiculously simple solutions that you wonder why no-one thought of it before. £62 whole...

5th October - 11th October Not claiming to be wholly responsible but, shortly after I mentioned it on my website, the water board were back looking at the leak at the junction. It was clearly a quick fix because now there's a square of fresh tarmac and, sadly, no midnight mountain stream. Today's soundtrack has been...

Newly-wed investigative journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson witness unearthly fireballs plunging into the sea from their cruise ship and embark on a years-long mission to uncover the truth with the aid of a madcap scientist and the military. Although Wyndham is generally considered to be rather left wing in his...

28th September - 4th October The sky is milky white; an impenetrable ceiling of cloud so pale the contrails are barely legible. In passing overhead, Two planes have described a giant "X marks the spot" denoting where there is no treasure. The previous evening, a trick of perspective meant an approaching aircraft's...

I've been reading that YouTube has just released a feature that lets you A/B test videos. I have opinions on A/B testing, which I've mentioned before. The crux of the problem is that A/B testing presumes either A or B is the right answer, and it optimises for popularity. In YouTube's case, engagement is probably...

Happy Spooky Season! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.

As the nights draw in and the sun becomes a long-distant memory, reasons to venture out with a camera are fewer and fewer. So, here are 31 prompts for October to encourage you out of a slump (like me) or whatever. I will almost certainly not do all 31! I will update this post periodically (I have other stuff to do!)...

The premise is deceptively simple… What's your favourite movie from the year you turned 21? Are you sure…? Easy-peasy — "Bring It On"! Oh, no, wait… "Memento" No, "The Cell" Ah, no "Requiem for a Dream" "American Psycho"! "Best in Show" Ooh, no it's "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Ah, "Pitch Black" No, no, it's...

21st September - 27th September The moon's full, uncaged by clouds and low over the horizon — a cold, golden colour. Stark as midnight. But this is five a.m. Not an ungodly hour by most people's standards. It shows autumn is here, and I'm feeling the witchy fingers of spooky season. Towards the end of my walk, about...

A thousand curses on whoever decided to reorganise the main navigation on Github so that "Agents" comes before "Actions". While I'm not a fan of "Agents" in the first place, I reluctantly accept that they're a part of Github. However, I am also old man shakes fist at clouds dot gif. On mobile, the navigation...

14th September - 20th September The Red Creep™ has started making its way across the maples in the graveyard, the sweetbriar has produced rosehips, days have tipped to more than 50% rainy and, most telling of all, I put the heating on one afternoon. Autumn is here a week early. If you've read these long enough...

I didn't go to uni, let alone Oxbridge, but I know people who did and their anecdotes track with a lot of the vibe in Thompson's debut. There's a lot of lived experience throughout the book I have absolutely no hope of truly understanding — I am not a Black woman — but I find it fascinating. Obviously Thompson...