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 a subscription renewed that I don't remember?! When I opened the email, it was...

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 of sandwiches. I will preface this entire questionnaire by saying sandwiches are...

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. It is, however, a buzzword for a suite of in-machine data processing tools. This...

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 and that's better than nothing. Alice shared Matthew's Sunlight Optimism...

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. A condemnation of clique-y society and poisonous “norms”. This is the book...

I'm sat in a presentation about "agentic AI" — we're going to construct agents (chains of computer systems) to handle to mindless repetitive grunt work that we all hate doing. In many ways, this sounds amazing. I can tell you the pain points of my job and you can get a computer to do it for me so I don't have to?!...

London-based hard rock three-piece, Calva Louise's "Con Corazon" is a Dead Sara-ish grungey "quiet-verse noisy-chorus" in a grimy basement with a slick af bass — heck of a scream on her! Meanwhile, the latest album –2025's "Edge of the Abyss"– is drastically different and absolutely incredible. Touches of MSI,...

From 2nd April 2026, Google is reclassifying as a "data processor" instead of a "data controller" for their reCAPTCHA service — that one where you have to prove you're human by clicking bicycles or school buses or traffic lights. What this means is a net good for online privacy. Although it doesn't affect historical...

The final book in Cooper's epic The Dark is Rising Sequence ties all of the loose ends up neatly in a quite satisfying way that doesn't feel forced. There's a lovely twist towards the end that plucks a heartstring or two but I won't spoil it here for anyone. I will say that I was quite impressed with the denoument;...

Happy February! 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.

26th January - 1st February Storm Chandra hit this week bringing a stupid amount of wind and rain. We were issued with a severe weather warning; snow is predicted but no ice which is good because fuck ice. One lunchtime, I went for a walk as I sometimes do. I was heading past the farm to where the path cuts back...

I am a fan of software that does one thing well. I also have a tendency to use Todoist for pretty much anything because two opposing things can be true at once. Todoist is brilliant and amazing and so easy to use that I find myself using it for bookmarks, project tracking, file transfer, and quick notes. I also...