April 2008
48 posts
Too Many Residents Look Gift Horse In The Mouth →
It’s amazing how everyone seems to feel a right of entitlement where none is promised, offered or even deserved. It’s so true. Just look at the feedback to practically any Second Life blog…
New Land Store Not ready… but Ready →
So the new land store is dependent on the new server code that’s been a finicky roll-out for a couple weeks as Linden Lab keeps initiating a roll out, then roll it back. However, I suspect some of…
Resident Rants Are Wasted Here →
Jeff Linden posted a notice about an issue with updating your credit card information on the Second Life® web site. Yes, the Second Life Grid itself has many an issue, but it is improving. The web…
Amazing. They still Just Don’t ‘Get It’ →
Wow. Second and third paragraph from this newspaper story (formatted to a single paragraph here because it’s just easier to read): But take a first look at Second Life, the largest and most popular…
Old Meets New in SL Land →
Good news, bad news from Linden lab as the new server updates, along with the expected new land store just won’t go. Problems and unexpected gremlins just keep popping themselves up, no matter how…
Second Life Video Tutorials: Dead as we know it! →
Okay - not really “dead” - but not as we ‘know it’, either. They’re moving to Sundays. Our favorite cheerful watermelonie Linden displays obvious goodwill and passion in his day-to-day and always…
Rosedale admits SL code is slop… reiterates →
Georgina Prodhan of Reuters, Frankfurt interviews uncle Phil. It’s a good interview, short but sweet without much said that isn’t already known, other than he admits they didn’t foresee the rise in…
Rebranding - a Fact of [busness] Life →
Last post here… maybe. Let me know if I should continue, or move-on. Your2ndPlace has a short article about SL Realtor rebranding itself into ‘MetaRealtors”. In fact, here’s a quote from…
Obedient bots never get a break… →
Garth Goode posted on his blog SLWTF (I love this bog!) that he found an unusually well hidden group of bots hovering about 750 meters over Echo Island. reading his description, they apparently are…
Apple Computer in Second Life®? Ain’t Happenin’ →
I first reported that MACNN found a patent filing by Apple Computer that makes it clear (even though only speculation at this point,) they are jumping into a virtual world. “A patent filing by Apple…
It's a change... →
Some of you might already know I actually mange three blogs. This one, where I actually rant and get pretty stupid from time-to-time, SL Review - where I actually make a serious effort at being a…
More on Trademarks >> Still Bogus →
This is the last posting on SL Review. It is copied here to maintain continuity from that blog to this one. All postings and archives also have been copied from there to here.
Welcome to Virtual…
Apple Computer, Inc. officially in Second Life? →
Very difficult to say. However, MACNN has discovered a paten application files by Apple Computer, Inc. that clearly describes an onlin shopping atmosphere and in the details, very strong clues to a…
It's a change... →
Some of you might already know I actually mange three blogs. This one, where I actually rant and get pretty stupid from time-to-time, SL Review - where I actually make a serious effort at being a…
Finding Sophrosyne - SILENCE = DEATH →
So, the SL bloggers are all on strike this (and I believe next) week in protest of SL’s newest policies on branding. Uh, sure you really want to do that? At least that’s what I was thinking when I…
Your2ndPlace’s Ciaran Laval gets it right →
Ciaran Laval has made an excellent post over at Your2ndPlace blog. I began replying to his wonderful insight and my reply became so long, I felt it better to simply post it here. It wouldn’t be right…
I've said it again and again - the tax man is... →
And now, Forbes magazine agrees with me. I’m warning you - the tax man is coming and it won’t be long. The greedy politicians are salivating over the money that is exchanging hands in Second Life and…
Windows 2008 in Second Life →
Just a small blurb from Microsofties who make word, indirectly of course, that Microsoft might be a little jealous of IBM’s recent announcements about what they’re doing in SL. Not as much of a…
SLWTF? →
I’ve been silently following Garth Goode’s SLWTF Blog for a Long time. I get an absolute chuckle everytime there’s an update and I really so appreciate how he doesn’t take things too seriously and is able to laugh at himself. I can relate on so many levels.
The only thing I hate him for is that he had the awesome idea for this blog, it’s style, what it’s about...
More uninformed journalists informing the public... →
Okay class, today’s lesson is the word ‘Oxymoron’. yes, we’ve all heard it before: Government Intelligence; Jumbo Shrimp and so on. How about Informed Journalist?
I present for your evaluation the…
Obama whacks Clinton... [rolls eyes now] →
Okay, so we all know Second Life is absolutely rife with “drama”, right? Especially the love triangles and other interpersonal spaghetti tangles of web that would bring Peyton Place, Romeo…
O - noez! Torley the sales man! LOL →
New bundle of unexpected tutorials presented by Torley Linden today. Unexpected because his ‘quicktips’ usually surface on Tuesdays and Weekly Tips are usually Fridays. But today in Monday and there…
“Experience is what you get, when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
– I forget :)
It's been quiet... sort of...
I know I’ve been rather quiet with regard to this blog and product updates. That’s because I am in the works on a big one. Sorry, I’m not quite ready to divulge the nature of it, yet. Suffice it to say: it’s a lot of work.
In fact I don’t expect the first version to be ready for another week or two. And then, it’ll be constant work on improvements and add-ons....
Second Life Exchange - no, not THAT one! →
Absolutely hilarious! The first “joke” above isn’t a joke. It’s a real posting… somewhere. And the funny thing is how vindicated I feel about it. I’ve been slamming all these so-called…
Thieves in the night - how to protect yourself? →
A very hot debate about content theft (technically plagiarizing) is flying around the SL blog again. We’ll simply have to agree to disagree. Part of the replies to my post are also…
Copybot and Prim Copiers - Finally, from the... →
There are knee-jerk reactions all the time with regard to prim-copiers… and even copybot. As for copybot… (based on what I understand about it) it’s clunky and difficult to use and really not all…
Making a living from SL business? Careful… →
So many people claim to be making a lot of real money inside Second Life. These are the whiners on the SL blog, every chance they get, regardless if the post is relevant or not. In fact, their…
Second Life Congressional Hearings - What a LAUGH! →
You may have already heard about the congressional hearings concerning Second Life that were going on last week, but nothing’s really big news until The Daily Show pokes fun at it. As usual, Jon…
Taxes in Second Life? Yes! H. R. Block offers... →
Many commercial organizations have ventured into Second Life, many flopping badly. Mostly due to the fire-and-forget attitude of slapping some advertising up and walking away, expecting others to…
Estate Owners Lose BIG BUCKS! OMG!!! Pffft. →
Okay - so Linden Lab is lowering the price of Private Regions, A.K.A. “Islands”.
It’s really pissed-off a lot of people. Though I really don’t know why. The same is happening with mainland regions,…
Are you in SL for the money? ...or the fun of it? →
Lillie Yifu over at 2nd Sex (yes, cool, but… er… interesting name) has a good little post about how the corporations are all about themselves. my first question is: what this ever a question?
Want an Alternative to SL? Go Fish. →
It ain’t happening. So, deal with the Linden Lab mantra and the SL woes of crashing, asset server issues, database wonkyness and whatever other problems creep-in, because they refuse to boil the…
A Second Life ‘era’ ends, to the detriment of all →
“The Moment of Truth”
Among the more popular, and better known open sourse Second Life Viewers was the Nicholaz versions. They are stable, rock solid and lacked so many crashing and other bugs. For…
Eclectic News of Second Life →
A short, but interesting article in the Times Online (U.K.) about… well, a slightly eclectic article about a few things. It almost looks like they found a three or four sentence blurb and used it as…
SLEX DCMA’s: Violation of Linden Lab TOS «... →
SLEX DCMA’s: Violation of Linden Lab TOS « Shopping Cart Disco There’s something to be said for everyone getting booted off the grid for twelve-plus hours while LL fights with its internet…
Reuters: Vivox to Lipsync: No voice for you →
Eric Reuters (Second Life for Reuters News) is in New York at the Virtual Worlds Expo…
I noticed his original news posting about lip syncing before And now an update: Vivox won’t open it’s stream to…
Dorkwad Congressman ... In Second Life →
Several days ago he held a Congressional hearing in Second Life, a specially designed “virtual world” for sociopaths, furries, and flying penis “avatars.”
I really hate when journalists…
Finally updated the vendor...
I finally have the Blackthorne Rezzing vendor updated to show imagery of the Classics series thrones, even though they already are available from the “Gift Box” selection. However, the Gift Box selections do not show any preview images of thrones, and we all know how some people just don’t ‘get it’.
A fresh perspective from a new user… →
If you’ve been in SL for awhile, you’ve become familiar with it’s quirkiness. And, you may have forgotten some of the frustration of learning the interface, how to interact with the world and the SL…
Hack SL Instructional →
All I can do is chuckle…
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Linden Lab converts to Hosting Status →
IBM now has a secured private area of Second Life behind their own firewall. it was only a matter of time and I see this is becoming Linden Lab’s primary focus eventually. it’s what they really want…
Second Life as strictly a host →
And so it begins…
it’s the move we all knew Linden Lab would make… eventually. That is to simply be a host to the virtual world… supplying servers and resources and that’s about it.
Big Guns IBM has…
How FUNNY that press releases from Lindens jump... →
Okay - so it’s really cool that Logitech has a three-dimensional (3D) mouse. And, it’s cool that it will support Second Life right out of the box. And it’s cool that the press release gives a lot of…
Second Life® on Samsung →
According to Business Wire, it’s official… and not just playing around. Apparently Samsung is sold on the idea that there are those of us who absolutely cannot get enough of Second Life that we will…
SL is a trademarked term. Refrain from using it... →
[Crossed from my other blog at SL Review - this one is just too important to me] Ah yes… typical sarcastic blog entry about the clarification post on the Second Life® blog. But, in truth, I’ve…
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you....”
– Mark Twain [Samual Langhorne Clemens], 1835-1910
The tax man cometh… soon enough… →
So, Uncle Phil (Second Life CEO - currently, anyway) went to go sit in front of some congressional meeting yesterday. Not all that sure what those greety, out-of-touch-with-the-real-world politicians…