by Sarah Thomas | May 19, 2022 | Storytelling, Writing and Storytelling
In April, with air and car travel brought to a standstill because of the virus, the earth took a moment to breathe. The sky was a vivid blue, uninterrupted by the usual steady stream of planes. No vapor trails or noises and the smell of the flowers coming into bloom....
by Sarah Thomas | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Photo by ThisIsEngineering on Pexels.com Big data In 2008 the World Economic Forum reported the beginning of the new age of big data. Enter the zettabyte, a 9.57 trillion gigabytes unit of information that we now had available for processing. A Brief History Of Big...
by Sarah Thomas | Apr 17, 2022 | Writing and Storytelling
In late 2016 I reached a high point in my eBay selling career, or a low point, depending on your outlook. I was running out of my writer’s existence savings and putting off an inevitable return to some kind of office-bound employment. I’d sold my old...
by Sarah Thomas | Apr 16, 2022 | Homepage, Writing and Storytelling
In the 18th Century, Scotland was a land without a leader. James VI of Scotland had become James I of England. The country was Crippled by debt and blighted by poverty. Scotland was a country without a parliament. Yet out of this small country emerged a ferocious...
by Sarah Thomas | Apr 16, 2022 | Homepage, Writing and Storytelling
The 2007 Motocross of Nations event, Budds Creek, Maryland USA and from the YouTube video, it looks like a sunny day. One Greatest of All Time (GOAT) rider, Ricky Carmichael has arrived for his final professional race in an incredible career. A win would be the...
by Sarah Thomas | Apr 16, 2022 | Homepage, Writing and Storytelling
And the land beyond being right The two-ship fleet searching for the fabled Northwest Passage has hit a block, literally, a massive block of ice, damaging HMS Erebus’s propeller and cutting her efficiency by half. It’s September 1846, and the...