April 2009
43 posts
Is First Life Really "Real Life"? →
My mind is always cranking hard. Ideas, thoughts, musings, ideas, to-dos, reasoning things, analyzing things… just a flood of a mish-mash of things. I enjoy learning new things all the time. my…
Apr 1st
March 2009
15 posts
Is First Life Real Life?
I still clearly and vividly remember the very first thing I saw, and what it looked like when I landed in-world and the first frame appeared for the first time in Second Life. This was back in the day where Orientation Island basically was based on a simple ‘trail’ paradigm. You followed a trail and accomplished relatively simple tasks at each way-point. Of course one of the first...
Mar 31st
Mar 27th
Trademark Award is "Groundbreaking" →
This made news a long time ago, when an application for trademark registration for the look of a Second Life avatar was submitted by Second Life resident Aimee Weber. It’s no surprise as she has been…
Mar 27th
Camping Bots - It's About Time →
Jack posted a late-nighter about bots: Much Ado About Bots - Land and Sea - Second Life Blogs: “Now some uses of Bots have a positive effect on the experience inworld and some have a negative impact….
Mar 27th
“Now some uses of Bots have a positive effect on the experience inworld and some...”
–  Much Ado About Bots - Land and Sea - Second Life Blogs
Mar 27th
Will the Confusion Never End? →
In one of the surprisingly rare instances that the Alphaville a.k.a Second Life Herald actually makes some sense, it is clearly explained how the uber-succssessful bazillionaires making money…
Mar 27th
“The UK corporate travel industry is this week to be told that physical meetings...”
– Travel Industry Seeks Socially Responsible Second Life
Mar 26th
Mar 26th
Sell it and they will buy!... WRONG. →
The problem most people who start or try to maintain a business in Second Life have is that it’s business. Don’t get me wrong here, in a departure from my usual in-your-face-truth-hurts ways, I am…
Mar 26th
Real banking coming... really? →
Yes, this really is news. To anyone who wasn’t around during the Second Life banking collapse of 2007, any. Well, a long-story-made-short for those not in the know… Among the absolutely most…
Mar 26th
“When we announced we’d be looking at changes around Adult content, we...”
– Follow Up: Adult Content Changes - Community - Second Life Blogs
Mar 26th
Real banking coming... really? →
Yes, this really is news. To anyone who wasn’t around during the Second Life banking collapse of 2007, any. Well, a long-story-made-short for those not in the know… Among the absolutely most…
Mar 25th
Sell it and they will buy! ...WRONG
[Woot! MarsEdit now supports Tumblr nicely. So, this is a cross post from my “real” blog, more as an experiment to see how Tumblr handles this stuff. I’ll do this a couple times to see how she goes.] [Update: bad, bad Tumblr… all the text mashed-up as though all carriage returns went poof. Now manually adding carriage returns so that paragraphs exist again.]  :\ The...
Mar 25th
Okaaaayyyy... FINALLY!
Tumblr is finally supported on MarsEdit - thge offline blogging software of choice for me (and anyone with an ounce of sense.) So - here’s a test-post and “hello again!” at the same time. /me wonder if pictures work, too.
Mar 25th