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  nuclear reactors and speedboats

  iliveisl 9:54 pm on March 8, 2010 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: enclave harbour (5), reaction grid (77)

  here’s a good weekend – make a nuclear power plant and some kind of funky speedboat  =)

  the nuclear plant is a “mini” one that subQuark can use for his environmental programme (stuff like “see the smoke from the cooling tower, is that pollution?” – no, not typically, this white smoke is steam, just water vapour, but it could be thermal pollution, blah, blah, blah) =p

  i tossed some 55 gallon drums floating in the water and some that are sunken. maybe a bit cliched but hey, it’ll work  =)

  but the boat – now that was fun to make

  i love reaction grid because you don’t have the 10 metre limit, so i could use a 20 metre long torus for the top half of the pseudo-modern-retro-fantasy boat dealio. it’s pretty cool to scale prims to about any size you need and to be able to link them like 256 metres apart (not sure on that distance but it’s way far)  =)

  

  

  

   

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  sl viewer 2.0 thoughts

  iliveisl 5:51 pm on February 25, 2010 | 9 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: cybersex (2), second life (381)

  Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented TCP in 1973. if any two people “invented the Internet” it was them

  the term web 2.0 is associated with Tim O’Reilly from a 2004 conference

  Philip Rosedale started Linden Lab in 1999 and Second Life launched in June of 2003

  this week, the LL blogs announced the rich media sharing internet-on-a prim-addition to viewer 2.0

  for sure it’s a HUGE addition. accessing flash content (since i am a flash developer irl) opens up tons of uses. wait! rewind!

  it does not open any additional anything actually, just another layer to access it from. it does not add more, just different way to reach it. that does have big value, but it’s not innovation

  realtime working on google docs in SL during a meeting is great (just like realtime working on google docs on the web is great). and yep, it will save upload money by allowing google presentations

  i like that the first comment on the LL blog is about a web-based colour picker for a sofa (actually cool that they scripted that so fast)

  is that really more efficient than a menu driven one in-world? yes, you can pick more colours visually from a colour wheel dealio, but maybe that points to a lack of in-world controls and programming limitations currently within SL

  what makes SL great, imo, is the immersive aspect. the shared immersive aspect is great too and that’s what viewer 2.0 offers

  imo, the overall experience in SL is not much richer than 3 years ago. yes, i crash less (that in itself is not an indication of a better experience is it?) but sim crossings are still the same, i get stuck in that downward drifting thing. and visually? i honestly can’t see anything better except water reflections and maybe the sky. objects still have the same poly count as before, so they are not better looking and don’t have more detail

  however, hats off to the developers for creating this mashup but . . .

  38 year old internet + 6 year old terminology mashed into a 7 year old product is not innovation, it is a great addition that i am sure was incredibly complicated to do

  too bad that was not available during second life’s hype cycle and media hey day

  

  this will help with the perception of adult stuff isl

   
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  choosing a colour palette for your creations

  iliveisl 1:18 am on February 23, 2010 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: colour, ener-gy hotel

  choosing colour is a big deal – well in my day job it is. it’s so important and really affects users big time. but how do you pick a great colour palette?

  fortunately there are great online tools and our fave is kuler by adobe. and it’s free! =)

  this applies to buildings and clothes. in fact, Pantone, the industry standard for colour, is centered around printing and fabric. pantone books cost in the thousands of dollars. that kind of speaks to how important colour is for consumers. so if you make houses or clothing outfits in Second Life, Reaction Grid, or any OpenSim-based worlds, maybe take a little time to create a few signature colour palettes

  the most recognizable colour in the world is Coca-Cola red

  now that you know about a neat colour tool, what about inspiration for base colours?

  i love colorstrology. she is the colour consultant for pantone and picks each year’s colour (this drives fashion believe it or not) and a colour for every single day of the year. so maybe use your birthday or any special day and see what you think

  

  colour palette for the Ener-Gy Hotel in Reaction Grid

   
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  Sunnygirl joins us in Reaction Grid

  iliveisl 3:16 am on February 21, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: reaction grid (77), sunnygirl whitfield (3)

  it is such a thrill to have Sunnygirl Whitfield join us in Reaction Grid! she has years of experience in making clothes, boots, skins, hair and a lot more.  she does so well in Second Life that she pays for her two sims with her great designs and good business sense

  her shop isl is HUGE and we’ll try to do her proud with a unique custom built shop in Enclave Harbor. since there is no in-world currency, it will be interesting to see how she sets up her sales. DreamWalker joined us to discuss this issue and offered some great suggestions =)

  say goodbye to being bland and hello to Sunny’s great designs!

  so add another custom build onto my shoulders and let’s so them how it’s done! =)

  btw, Sunny is great for doing custom work – like school uniforms and branded business attire

  

  o/ Sunny! =)

   
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  drag queen

  iliveisl 11:23 am on February 20, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: opensim (12), second life (381)

  wow, what a great tip! i saw it via Twitter and it’s here

  a debug setting for LimitDragDistance (clever name)

  so now you can be a drag queen too and move things farther!

  thanks Zauber!  =)

  

  now we can drag crap all over the place! =D

   
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  reaction grid observations

  iliveisl 8:33 am on February 20, 2010 | 14 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: enclave harbor (9), reaction grid (77)

  i write a lot about reaction grid now mainly because it has given me a place to do what i love to do – build and landscape. i loved second life for that and a year and a half ago it was awesome being able to add a sim every three weeks. wow, what a rush! and since they were openspaces, i could really have fun terraforming. i have loads of flickr pics of them and they were my proudest works

  once openspaces got hosed by Linden Lab, well the estate actually shrunk in total number of sims but grew in total tiers as we converted and did add full sims. but that meant less terraforming (more parcels on a sim mean smaller open areas to plant on)

  with subQuark’s Enclave Harbor (for some reason i love those initials! – subbie is clever) i get to play house again, i mean build like nuts!

  i also point out that Reaction Grid, and any OpenSim-based world, is not Second Life. it’s all alpha software so it can be pretty rough. BUT it’s also great for people that are able to cope with not having tons of freebies. the people in Reaction Grid are a lot like many of the iliveisl residents – creative and self-reliant

  reaction grid, to me, is like a frontier, a little rough but great potential

  so if you freak out because you can’t easily find clothes, then maybe it is not for you yet. hardcore people that understand virtual worlds do great in reaction grid

  in talking with my closest and dearest friend (lol, that should give it away to some peeps), she had this to say:

  this is not a complaint by ME… just an observation from the viewpoint of “Let’s get more peeps interested in RG”…

  Every single SL person I’ve convinced to try RG complains of at least 2 of these 4 things:

  1. No search… for people or places. (“How do I find stuff?” people ask. “Um, good luck, fly around” I say).
  2. No groups.
  3. Difficulty logging in, frequent crashes.
  4. Weird graphic glitches (this still happens to me, often. I have to get nekkid and put my skin, hair, and clothes on 1 piece at a time… and sometimes even that fails).

  (and of course everyone complains about the ugly default avatars, but that’s to be expected)

  I hope the Powers That Be plan to fix these things soon. Lack of search (especially) is just… stooopid. The database is there. I assume there must be some really, really, really, really, really good reason why they have not turned search on or why it doesn’t work.

  I assume the graphic glitches are related to an attempt to support the hundreds of video cards out there? Mine is a quite normal one, over 2 years old… yet apparently RG does not like it. Strange. This is the ONE thing that I give SL credit for… graphic glitches there are very rare, and usually just a simple cache issue.

  I find I can add RG peeps to my list IF i go to Contacts and search by their exact name… but the normal Search does nothing.

  Consensus seems to be… call me when they fix search and make the whole thing more stable.

  Fix Search. Fix the graphic glitches… and peeps will visit more than once (and won’t leave frustrated).

  [name removed to protect the innocent, or not so innocent] indicated that things are indeed not very stable at times. We both crashed just trying to cross a Sim border.

  I also crashed every single time I tried to import something (.xml file, as usual) a couple days ago (but maybe that was a Meerkat issue?)

  Anyways, that’s the report from the field, so to speak. It’s an adventure, never knowing if i can log on, what i will look like, or how long before i crash… but such adventures are not good for attracting new users.

  I also think an ‘official’ Learning Path (yep, I know you’re on top of that idea) and some basic skins/hair provided by RG (like SL does for newbies) would go a long way towards people wanting to come back. RG ‘Ruth’ is even uglier than SL Ruth. Geeeez, lose the red pants already. LOL.

  I’ll keep inviting peeps, but I wish I could explain to them why the above issues exist, and when they will be fixed. (um, i’m too lazy to do research… but maybe you have some insider info? )

  Thanks… and I’m loving your Bunker, resurrected in the um, the New World ! I do enjoy the positives of RG (even if you were not there, I would still be there), but many new visitors won’t get past the problems.

  that’s pretty insightful information by a person who loves to help noobs and is a hardcore scripter and builder. now on subbie’s private grid i have very few issues. just weird things like how my feet bend and hopefully when we connect to reaction grid’s main grid we will still have the same performance (i never ever crash with the hippo viewer but sometimes freeze with meerkat)

  for me the groups thing is HUGE. it limits us big time in good building practices.  subQ and i can’t build together and have any autoreturn on. we like allowing others to rez things but also don’t want to manually police 16 sims!

  the second thing, for me, is not having a “go to” place online to see what is going on with Reaction Grid. i know Chris has been working hard on the grid’s code, but only from a tweet. Maria writes on how hypergridding is messed up atm, but there is no way to tell if that is being addressed by reaction grid. at least no central place like one blog

  now that we are 100% in reaction grid, it would be nice to have some central place, like one blog, to learn about what is going on.  i know for a fact that the reaction grid team works every single day to make their grid better but that is of little consolation for the issues brought out with the email excerpt above

  all i can say is that it’s alpha, we love it, and if you are a weiner, then stay back for a while till you can decide for yourself where it is going (hopefully, a central info site will help you make that decision)  =)

  

  hmm, Enclave Harbor - Ener Hax, great initials! =p

   
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  we dump google ads

  iliveisl 11:17 pm on February 19, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  

  just a note – to make the blog load faster for you, we dumped the google ads

  while it covered hosting, it’s not worth the performance hit on the blog

  lol, we get more value from our affiliate links!

   
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  test post to fix WP fail error

  iliveisl 10:05 pm on February 18, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  if you use WP self-hosted, you may run into an error that makes you go nuts. it says the post has failed, but it’s actually saved as a draft. so for a month, we have been dinking around looking for a fix

  here’s what we just tried and it worked! =)

  1. open the file post-new.php found in the wp-admin folder
  2. find the line that says wp_enqueue_script(‘autosave’); and type // in front of it to turn it into a comment rather than a command (this way you can reenable the feature later if you decide to)
  3. save the file and replace the old one on your ftp client

  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/343079/page/2

   
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  Philip has left the building

  iliveisl 2:01 pm on February 6, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  

  thanks DreamWalker – https://blogs.secondlife.com/people/Philip.Linden

   
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  Linden Home programme now live

  iliveisl 12:55 pm on December 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: linden homes

  last week we mentioned the Linden Home dealio – a free 512 sm of land with a home for premium accounts. it’s a good idea, we think, because even though you always had free tiers for 512 sm of land, most people found it hard to buy land that size (and it could be expensive to buy as well)

  now it’s live and in beta so read more here including the LMs so that you can go check out what these low prim homes look like

   
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  sim restarts are not magic

  iliveisl 12:43 pm on December 19, 2009 | 12 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: sim restarts

  second life is always buggy.  part of that is because what it does is massive – real-time rendering of 3D graphics is a massive task. both for your machine and for the servers dealing with them

  sims are designed to never need restarts and Linden advises against doing them regularly. the Linden servers take care of a lot more issues than a restart does

  typically it does not help with lag. a restart moves a sim from one server’s CPU core to another one, most likely on a different server. depending where it moves to, you can end up worse! so if it’s laggy, it means a bunch of servers are laggy. even if the sim next door is running better (there are over 8,000 servers)

  so what does it help? ever seen a ghost prim? you can’t see it but you can feel it. you can stand on it and it acts like a real prim but won’t show up on a map. sometimes these are prims that were sat upon (you can see that in your land tab) – there are always sat upon prims. but not all sat upon prims are ghosts. a car, plane, or boat that was rezzed and used but now gone is a sat upon prim. ghost prims are rare, i have only seen maybe 6 in 3 years over the entire estate

  and they do go away after a day or two (with those batch things Linden does to all servers)

  what else does it help? well sometimes there are also ghost scripts or ghost avatars. a ghost script is one that gets left behind after maybe rezzing out a scripted object several times. a ghost avatar is not you being stuck, but an account whose avatar got stuck likely from a Linden Rolling Restart. but an avatar is not you – you are called an agent

  when you log on, your agent is what connects to second life and your agent controls an avatar. so it is possible that your avatar stays on even if your agent logs off. i have only seen these is association with rolling restarts

  the best thing to do if you are not able to log on is contact sl support and do Live Chat (you have to be a premium member but they take care of you in a few minutes)

  BUT – check SL Status first – lag is from too many peeps on a sim, too many scripts, or from the grid in general. Linden only reports massive issues on the page. they send lots of notices to estate owners on smaller issues like TP problems, inventory and group problems. issues that are big to you and me but not the grid

  so sim restarts? they don’t do much, can make things worse, and are not a magic bullet.  second life is an advanced application dependent on your machine and a lot of hardware in San Francisco

  also, you can follow the SL Status Tweets

  

  lol, LL recommends not doing restarts unless instructed

   
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  is Ning good for your second life stuff?

  iliveisl 1:13 am on December 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: indie metaverse, ning network, reaction grid (77)

  woops! =p if you don’t know what Ning is, well, no worries. it’s a, hmmm, lol, i’m not sure what it is!

  it’s a place you can go to create your own online community for free. it’s pretty cool in that you can make it by approval only and members can set up their own profile page. you can allow people to put up pics and videos, carry on conversations, create blogs, make groups within your Ning network, and so on

  there are a lot of Ning networks out there (tons!). but many are just dumpy because they do take work to get rolling. but there are also many good ones

  i belong to a few and subQuark belongs to like 30 of them. out of all those, only a few are worthwhile and have great members adding great content

  the reaction grid team started one called indie metaverse and it’s rolling along pretty well (it has a second life group inside of it). so i thought it would be nice to share our reaction grid specific pics with them (lol, what an honour eh?). and the cool thing is that you can upload right from flickr! =)

  cool for us, maybe not cool for the reaction grid team who had to approve all of the pics!

  lol, look at this screenshot of my Yahoo mail! yikes! 513 emails! w00t! and all from those pics

  good thing we did not upload all of our 5,800 pics!

  so if you ever need to create a user community (could be for scripter and builder friends isl or maybe a shopkeepers association or a club wanting to extend their presence beyond second life), Ning is a good choice and pretty flexible =)

  

  ou sont les french fires? =p

   
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  FireFox's winter home on the iliveisl estate

  iliveisl 12:46 am on December 17, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: enercity (66), FireFox Bancroft (2), iliveisl (154), winter (2)

  For my winter theme I decided to go with a deep forest in winter time look, I know I wanted trees, lots of trees, and shrubs and lots of snow. I bought a weather system just for this particular setup.  I don’t exactly celebrate Christmas but I do love winter and snow and I wanted our cave to reflect that. The weather emitter is set to change the amount and frequency of snow the parcel gets about 30 minutes or so; so while you’re standing there looking at the entire scene it tends to change. I also made myself some day and night windlight settings for snow. Visibility is medium but it helps convey the sense of wintertime. And I really wish LL would let us set that as a parcel setting because it would really help people who visit get a sense of what I was trying to acheive here.

  FireFox Bancroft

  we asked  FireFox Bancroft for a notecard on his home, he has it done up nicely for winter. he lives in Enercity next to the park (and zombies) and he even has an entrance into the city catacombs.  FireFox is a pretty neat resident and creates and sells some really wonderful items =)

  For my winter theme I decided to go with a deep forest in winter time look, I know I wanted trees, lots of trees, and shrubs and lots of snow.

  I bought a weather system just for this particular setup.  I don’t exactly celebrate Christmas but I do love winter and snow and I wanted our cave to reflect that. The weather emitter is set to change the amount and frequency of snow the parcel gets about 30 minutes or so; so while you’re standing there looking at the entire scene it tends to change.

  I also made myself some day and night windlight settings for snow. Visibility is medium but it helps convey the sense of wintertime. And I really wish LL would let us set that as a parcel setting because it would really help people who visit get a sense of what I was trying to achieve here.

  

   
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  second life economic statistics

  iliveisl 7:04 pm on December 15, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: economy (4), second life (381)

  did you know you can review second life statistics? it used to be a prominent link on the site, but is a bit more obscure now

  Second Life Economic Stats

  they update daily and have loads of information. we typically don’t look at this too much but after being challenged on facebook on total concurrent users, we decided to check it out

  it seems to us that concurrent users is staying steady. after the bot policy went into place, the highs of 88,000 peeps came down to the 60s it seemed. but looking at that casually is not a good way to determine if that is true. so here’s what we did. you can play with stats to make them do lots of things, but neither subQuark or i are clever (or motivated) enough to do that

  so we (read: Ener!) decided to look at one number and use it to chart out what we think of as concurrent users.  it’s actually daily users.  here’s what “we” did:

  took the logged in users data and then took the “Residents Logged-In During Last 30 Days” and divided by 30. that gives us an average number of users per day. as long as we look at it the same for all numbers, it can give you an idea of trends

  we looked at the last 8 Tuesdays to get these “trending” numbers

  • 32,893 (Nov 10)
  • 33,112 (Nov 17)
  • 33,367 (Nov 24)
  • 33,349 (Dec 1)
  • 32,907 (Dec 8)
  • 32,046 (Dec 15)

  so? well, the person that told me that the numbers were in the 70,000s on Sundays was a bit off. for that to happen, there would have to be one day a week with zero logins to make one day a week have 66,000 – or 6 days with 26,000 logins to have 70,000 on a single day. it’s just all averages. i know no days only have 26,000 logins – Linden Lab would totally flip if that happened!

  when we were visiting the Lab last year (props to their most cool workspace) we saw how they monitor it all. they have 42-46″ plasmas all over the place with real-time data on things like logins, performance, and all sorts of things (looked like 10-20 data sets they were displaying)

  so what does this all mean? looks like growth is a bit flat, but two months is not very long to call a trend. the dip looks big in the chart but that is because the Y-axis is tight

  

  daily logins over the last 8 Tuesdays

   
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  Second Life Crowne Plaza poofed

  iliveisl 11:59 am on December 14, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: crowne plaza, second life (381), subquark (14)

  

  do you know about the Crowne Plaza in Second Life? well, it seems to be gone. we have been trying to hit it for a few weeks now =(

  they had a great online interface that allowed you to reserve any of three different rooms – a conference room, a theatre, and a lounge

  when they first started is when we also started in second life. it was actually one of the reasons we got in. they made great press a few years ago and had two sims

  it was great to use because you could book the rooms and specify who could attend. that was a really neat way to meet with clients in-world.  lol, they even had donuts in the conference room =)

  it is sad to see it go – but they never had any events or actively marketed it to people for meetings. we think that people would have even paid to use the rooms. not regular peeps like you and me, not everyday avatars but corporate people

  subQuark used the rooms several times in his videos – they were very well made and laid out in a flow that worked very well for filming – they even inspired the speed build video below
  (creative commons music used – in my hood everybody gotta eat) =D

   
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  get some class and be respectable

  iliveisl 3:52 pm on December 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: education (2), reaction grid (77), second life (381)

  

  subQuark & Ener have both taught in-world

  sometimes you just have to play a little. playing around with prims and trying twists, and dimples, and cuts is a great way to learn

  and you really can’t mess anything up if you start from scratch. sometimes you stumble across neat shapes, like in this thing

  the fuselage part is just a cylinder with shear, taper, cut, and hollow on. the cockpit and cabin are also just a cut sphere. nothing Earth shattering, it just lent itself to being turned into some supersonic, bombastic transport dealio =)

  so if you have not tried building yet, just tinker about and know that you really can’t mess anything up. and if you are adventurous, take a free class! =)

  there are classes everyday on so many things – from making hair to gift boxes to almost anything you can think of!

  just open Search, then Events, then select education from the dropdown

  almost all classes are free and, who knows, you may even teach a class or two

  get some class, be the envy of your friends, and just have fun!

  it’s also a great way to meet new people!

   
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  happy hanukkah or my poutine is kosher

  iliveisl 1:24 pm on December 12, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ener Hax (126), hanukkah (2), matzo ball, reaction grid (77), second life (381)

  

  that's a matzo ball for sure

  yay, it’s hanukkah! and no doubt that second life is heavily judaic!

  just look at the default sphere! that’s a matzo ball if ever i saw one!  =p

  lol, but you don’t see much in the way of hanukkah stuff isl even though it is super cinchy to build (but overall, it seems peeps are sensitive to much of this, even linden lab refers to this as winter holidays – i say celebrate them all! anything that involves food and/or gifts can’t be bad!)

  like a menorah would be an easy build- just some cut tori (plural of torus?)

  a dreidel is easy to make too (ooh, easy to stick an omega script in there! – i am so making one for Enercity Park)  =)

  well anyway, happy hanukkah and you will see some more related posts over these eight days of celebration

  okay, now to go make the biggest matzo ball ever in Reaction Grid (woohoo, a 256 metre one!)  =D

  hmm, seems someone with pink hair is hungry!

  i wonder if i can find kosher poutine? maybe a Rabbi can bless a poutine cart in an emergency? =)

  

  where are the dradles?

   
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  LL gets aggressive with intellectual property protection

  iliveisl 9:10 pm on December 11, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: content theft, second life (381)

  wow! this looks really good! as much as we may moan and groan, we really love second life. it’s important to us and despite some rants, we put our money where our mouths are (well, Ener’s sometimes big mouth)  =p

  twelve sims is a heck of a commitment and the health of the estate is directly tied to the health of sl. a HUGE part of that success is from content creators.  we are lucky to have some really talented people on the estate that make all kinds of original and fun items

  so copyright protection is a big deal

  it takes a lot of time, patience, passion, and talent to make things isl

  lol, we are used to going out and buying things like office chairs for $250 L each when we need them. boy, that is cheap! it took Ener an hour to make an Aeron-style chair in Reaction Grid (so that’s like working for a dollar an hour!)  =p

  the new roadmap by Linden looks very well thought out with details here in the wiki

  take a look at them, some of the things that get swapped out are pretty imaginative!  can’t wait to see this in action!  =)

  

  at least they are full copy =)

   
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  Linden Lab hates to say thank you

  iliveisl 5:54 pm on December 10, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: jokay (2), lexie linden, linden lab (12), mentors (2), reaction grid (77)

  you know, we have been back in forth in how we feel about Linden Labs – sometimes we go on about how awesome they are and sometimes we think they blow o_O

  well, typically when we think they blow is after they have done something that has pissed off peeps – the openspace thing, the way they ignored subQuark’s question on LL props in a textbook, the Adult policy, the XStreetSOL dealio, the Jokay takedown notice fiasco (that has to be the most stoopid thing Linden Lab ever did*), and now the end of the Second Life Mentor programme =(

  it boggles the mind why you would want to do away with 3,000 volunteers that spend hours a week helping n00bs? but anyway this “gripe” today is not so much with dumping the mentors but in the way they handle it. it’s another example of Linden Lab just being out of touch with the humans behind the avatars

  here is a notice to us mentors:

  Group Notice From: Lexie Linden

  Hi Mentors
  Please remember to pick up any items you own from SLVEC, SLVI’s and Volunteer HQ in Tenera by Dec 10th. Thank you!

  wow, very straightforward. so is it really that hard to let a little bit of decency and appreciation come out? i mean come on, one sentence would have made this a much nicer message:

  Hi Mentors
  Together we have done so much good for so many new people and we appreciate all your selfless efforts to make Second Life the best.
  Please remember to pick up any items you own from SLVEC, SLVI’s and Volunteer HQ in Tenera by Dec 10th. Thank you!

  is it that hard for Lexie or anyone at Linden Lab to show some gratitude? sheesh, just write “don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out with your crap”

  holy cow, get a soul and treat people as humans that have hearts!

  speaking of such, thank you all for helping make this blog so popular and enjoyable to write (even the moaning and groaning rants) and thank you for making the iliveisl twitter kick royal butt! it had a twitter grade of 99.8% last week (wish my school grades had been like that!). and thank you all the facebook peeps that have friended me (like 3400 peeps) =)

  the neat thing about both twitter and facebook is that many of you i do know and i have made new friends from both that i would have never met otherwise \o/

  my life is richer from all of you and i have much gratitude for that and do not take your time for granted, thank you (now don’t let the door smack your ass on the way out! beat it!)  =D

  

  a free build i did for a Deaf group isl

  * – the takedown thing is an interesting example that peers into the work culture at Linden Lab. clearly there is no corporate mantra dealing with respecting their users – you and me as residents. it’s easy to say “the legal department . . .” as M Linden pointed out in his public apology to Jokay (where he defended the actions of Linden Lab more than just being humble). but that legal department is still made of people that work for Linden Lab. those people should, presumably, have some common sense that can see the diff between Jokay’s educational efforts and some website that clearly hurts the SL brand name. it’s easy to see from Jokay’s site that her efforts have spread the word that SL as a great tool for educators and that she never pretended to be an official part of Linden Labs

  as a result of Jokay’s event, many people have started moving to Reaction Grid. it’s perfect for education, in fact it is far better (see subQuark’s latest blog posts talking about why it works well for eLearning). our very own subQuark has 4 sims there, sims that he wanted to setup in Second Life last year, but after the horrible lack of follow-up by Linden decided to place on hold (just as well, $1180 vs. $75? that’s an easy decision, especially with better performance)

   
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  instant message repeats

  iliveisl 8:50 pm on December 9, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: reaction grid (77), second life (381)

  

  did you see what she was wearing?

  have you been getting offline IMs that sure seem familiar? seems that many people have, but i have not heard anything official about it

  it looks like most of them have older dates as part of the IMs so take a good look at them. i guess it’s just a burp by the Linden servers (and it should remind you that there are records of everything you ever say, even in “private” IMs)

  privacy is a constant issue for anything online and the same holds true for any conversations in second life. some of the IMs that have been resent from my account are up to 6 weeks old! i don’t have anything to hide and this “burp” is more of an inconvenience as people are thinking i may be insane (no need to think it, i am!)  =D

  so just know it’s a temp thing and perhaps the next rolling restart will take care of it! i hope so, it’s been going on for 2 days!

  remember, no convo is truly private and is stored on a server (we have been learning about how much is stored with our own grid on a Reaction Grid server – everything is logged, everystep you make, every prim you make, everything!)