her divine shadow

Rachel: is listening to the Billy Idol Christmas album.

Originally from Twitter / herdivineshadow on June 30, 2007, 8:39am

Rachel: isn’t quite sure where she is.

Originally from Twitter / herdivineshadow on June 29, 2007, 10:19am

The world’s fastest commercial supercomputer has been launched by computer giant IBM.
Blue Gene/P is three times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.
The latest number cruncher is capable of operating at so called “petaflop” speeds - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
Approximately 100,000 times more powerful [...]

Originally by Rachel from More Tomorrow on June 28, 2007, 5:36am

Rachel: has static in her sinuses

Originally from Twitter / herdivineshadow on June 27, 2007, 12:47pm

Rachel: is aggregating herself.

Originally from Twitter / herdivineshadow on June 26, 2007, 2:01pm

These are my links for June 23rd through June 24th:

• Review: Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm - This exciting new study argues that medieval aristocratic women not only had power to exercise authority, but that they did so in different capacities depending on the times of their life cycle. Medieval aristocratic women were capable of doing so in the
  tags: history 12thcentury anglonorman
• A Celebration of Women Writers: 1101 - 1200 -
  tags: history names 12thcentury
• Women’s Given Names from Early 13th C England -
  tags: history names 13thcentury
• Men’s Given Names from Early 13th C England -
  tags: history names 13thcentury
• kat_lair: Meme answers -
  tags: fic guyofgisborne robinhood ficrecs
• robinhoodbbc_us: Good King Richard? -
  tags: robinhood history lionheart

These are my links for June 21st through June 22nd:

• RichardArmitageOnline.com - actor Richard Armitage, star of BBC North and South, Robin Hood (Guy of Gisborne), Vicar of Dibley: articles, information, pictures, screencaps, video clips. -
• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Indiana Jones image released -
• RSS Buttons Maker -
• Shifting Mind » Postalicious -
• A graphic language for RFID · Touch -

I had forgotten that 1000 words is an absurdly small word limit. Gah. The problem with essay writing, is that once I get going, I really get going. All done and submitted now though and the deadline isn’t until tomorrow at 11.59pm! I actually finished ahead of time for like… the first time ever. MARVEL.

Originally from her divine shadow on June 21, 2007, 2:30pm

Google would consider keeping a user’s search data for longer than 18 months if they had explicitly consented, one of the firm’s key executives has said.
The web giant currently anonymises a user’s search history after 18 months.

I have always been suspicious of Google. Ever since I noticed that their cookies don’t expire for like… a bazillion years, I have been fairly wary.

It may just be a over-healthy sense of paranoia, but I don’t like the idea of some company in another country knowing who I am and what I do in so much detail.

And keeping all this data on people can’t be good.

Originally by Rachel from More Tomorrow on June 20, 2007, 5:58am

Abaddon in Second Life, originally uploaded by herdivineshadow.

Abaddon is a really great looking sim. The only problem is when you find yourself under it and there’s nothing there. Apart from a really big ramp to get out, or I’m missing something. All it needs is some crazy underwater city to complete it.

Originally by Rachel from More Tomorrow on June 20, 2007, 1:16pm