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 than a PC, the first machine has been bought by the US government.

How cool is that? I’m imagining using Second Life on this machine or in fact any game. Maybe setting up a whole bank of shiny flatscreen monitors so that I can game, browse the net, play music, catch up on emails, use graphics programs and a bunch of other things ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

I think I’d need some kind of extra arm transplant or something to really enjoy it.

Of course, I’m sure they’re going to use it for far more sensible and serious things.

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

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