herdivineshadow posted a photo:

Originally by nobody@flickr.com (herdivineshadow) from Uploads from herdivineshadow on August 25, 2007, 1:39pm

herdivineshadow posted a photo:

Originally by nobody@flickr.com (herdivineshadow) from Uploads from herdivineshadow on August 25, 2007, 1:39pm

In exciting news, today I actually made use of some of the stuff I learnt doing my degree. Which for those of you that know, is minorly hilarious as I am possibly the least technically minded computer science graduate in the world. 😀

I mean, I don’t even know or care what spec my laptop is.

Also, it’s a wonder I actually remembered anything.

Originally from her divine shadow on August 24, 2007, 2:36pm

I am made of win.

I just bid 1p higher than the current bidders maximum. MARVEL.

Originally from her divine shadow on August 23, 2007, 11:10am

But not one actually for this journal. 😀

And I’ll leave it at that.

Originally from herdivineshadow on August 22, 2007, 2:25pm

I’ve remembered what I forgot earlier.

Michael Marshall Smith is also guest blogger this week on Powells.com.

“Now, there are certain combinations of words that just work, conjuring something beautiful and true and pure: like ‘peace and harmony’, ‘second-hand bookstore’ and ‘all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet’. ‘Health and safety’, on the other hand, is a phrase that makes me want to bite people. It’s always used as if it needs no qualification, but was found carved into a rock discovered well below the carboniferous layer. ‘It’s health and safety’, people intone: not adding ‘regulations’, or prefixing with ‘in the interests of…’ — but rather as if they are evoking an irrevocable property of the universe, like thunder or gravity or death. Though ‘health and safety’ is of course a good thing, it often seems to be used more as a way of stopping people from doing something that might otherwise be convenient or intuitively reasonable. But I suppose that not subjecting potential customers to danger of death is a boon, overall, so that’s the current battle in the overall struggle to bring natural health, beauty and contemporary health medicine to a yearning public.”

Originally from her divine shadow on August 21, 2007, 3:57pm

herdivineshadow: is a boatload of fail.

Originally from Twitter / herdivineshadow on August 21, 2007, 2:26pm

Having 3 lots of online banking systems to contend with and only remembering your log-in details for one and a half of them is massively massively annoying. A pox on amazon.com for precipitating the fail.

ANYWAY. I know…one of you might be interested to know that Michael Marshall Smith has a new book out. As Michael Marshall Smith, rather than just Michael Marshall.

Which is a nice change, as it’s been about 10 years since the last Smith book and about 5 minutes since the last Marshall book. It’s called “The Servants” and it can be ordered here. Or on amazon.com. Where it is cheaper but made my internet banking skillz fail. At least earthling take paypal.

I know there was something else, but I can’t quite remember it.

It looks like plans have been made for the bank holiday. Bah.

Originally from her divine shadow on August 21, 2007, 2:28pm

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Originally by herdivineshadow from maybe you’ve been brainwashed too on August 19, 2007, 2:43pm