Exercising
My wife and I purchased some exercise equipment yesterday in real life. After a 30 minute work out, I was walking like a penguin and my butt bones hurt. I tried again today but…
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Google Proxy and SL Google Appliance
Well, my friend SignpostMarv Martin came through for me. He pointed me in the direction of how to query the Google appliance for regions.…
A new look for modern nature
Most of the sim of woodbridge is natural. The technology of my gadget shop usually goes against the whole woodsy theme going on. I really want to find a way to fit in, but still…
Movie clips of 300
DrFran Babcock told me that 300 was showing over at the Silverscreen sim. I checked it out and watched the preview. After the preview, there were many clips from the movie playing…
Tiger Bites Avatar
Korii being a Tiger couldn't exactly stand on a pose ball. So she went into her own pose and chomped away at my bum. "You have 20 seconds to get a pic of me biting my…
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Avatar Accessible Design
During my buildings redesign, I changed from using teleports to a spiral ramp. One of the first buildings I maded in SL had spirals to cut down on prim counts. Compared to…
Here are my 2010 predictions
Third time's a charm? BlogHUD is still not cross-posting. I'll try this one last time. So I made some predictions for things to happen in 2009, so let's review: Web page on a prim…
Texture baking with Neptune
I sometimes wish that I had the talent that some of the residents of second life have. One talent that stands out is texture baking. Someone makes a sceen in a 3D environment such…
undefined index REMOTE_ADDR for cron
Now that I got cron jobs running, I started to see a bunch of errors in my log4php database. It turns out that PHP executed directly from the cgi bin (/web/cgi-bin/php5) instead…
The Journey Back Home
Most of my childhood was spent living in an old farmhouse. It had been kept up throughout the years, so it didn't seem that old. Still, it had no style as wood paneling was…
Oh... new year already? Heres the predictions.
So I made some predictions for things to happen in 2009, so let's review: Web page on a prim (For Real!) Didn't happen. However, the Lindens keep dropping hints that it's…
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Oh... new year already? Heres the predictions.
Ok, BlogHUD didn't cross-post this snapshot the first time, so let's try again, shall we? So I made some predictions for things to happen in 2009, so let's review: Web page on a…
Cisco Systems Data Sort Game
My super-duper top secret game is finally ready to go public. Banana Stein (who reported on it earlier), asked me to come up with a game concept. I came up with three ideas (Apple…
Taking down the signs
I finally got through to one of the people at Terra Tron to take down my items. The actually banned me from the parcel and I was still able to hang out and see everything. Half…
Encryption Anxiety
I have setup my reports to communicate with XOR encryption. The algorithm is weaker than anything I've worked with before. I want to find an open-source license free encryption…
Todd Borst - Guru Animator
Todd keeps popping up in my life. DrFran Babcock introduced me to his work with many great animated pets and a Puppeteer Prim Animation Kit. This past year, he made a great pet…
Back to the Future's Hill Valley
Alic White was showing me around his mockup of Hill Valley in Back to the Future. It's based on the original movie from the 50's time period. All of the shops are setup at the…
X-Ray Vision Glasses
A while back I created a set of glasses and then scripted them to give a humorouse effect. When you touch them, you are prompted as to whome you would like to use the X-Ray vision…
Simple Encryption in Second Life
I've been working with methods to encrypt data being passed around my objects for the visitor reports with a symmetric cipher. The closest method available that Linden Lab…
Automated tagging with MetaWeblog API
I wanted to tag all of my posts on my wordpress blog with 1750 posts. I started researching how it could be automated. The first problem was to access all of the content. Blogs…
Augmented Reality - Dedric Mauriac
I started playing a little bit with Augmented Reality tonight. Perhaps it is more like augmented virtual reality. I was mainly playing with ARtag. I don't have a webcam to play…
Tribute to RHPS - Dedric Mauriac
Long, long ago, I used to watch the Rocky Horry Picture Show (RHPS) every Saturday night at midnight. This cult classic was released in the year I was born, and even in the 90's…
RFL of SL 2008 Athletic Heroes Stadium
Getting ready for the closing ceremony The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can…
RFL of SL 2008 James and the Giant Peach
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
The path to encryption
Now that I'm looking into methods of encryption data for real (and ignoring XOR encryption), the first thing that that I needed to do was to get the ASCII values for each…
2008 SLRFL Team Formation Info. *
A note from the SLRFL 2008:Thank you for showing interest in participating in the 2008 SLRFL. SLRFL is a collective effort of teams and individuals within SL to raise money and…
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The path to encryption
Now that I'm looking into methods of encryption data for real (and ignoring XOR encryption), the first thing that that I needed to do was to get the ASCII values for each…
Discovering Past Projects
Cleaning the way though all my variose parcels leads me to discovering many old and forgotten projects. This one here was letting me discover the value of lindens per currency…
Multi Chair Social Tub Testing
Timeless Prototype (maker of multi-gadget) sent out a request for some ginnie pigs to test out his new social tub. Many of us came running and found a pretty wild hot tub with…
NASA - Creating informational and virtual space for knowledge sharing
There is a Panel Session at Explorer Island starting at 10am slt called "Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing".This session is number three,…
Relay for Life 2007
I think the Relay for Life is probably SL's most beneficial event. The whole grid gets really creative in building up fund raisers to donate L$ to battle cancer. Last year, I ran…
Avatar Interestingness
Sometimes you see an avatar that just really cracks you up. TP Spad came by in a Startrek uniform, boots, spandex shorts, and a rocketman helmet including the rocket pack. The…
Information Highway
I've started to setup a wiki space for my SL business. So far it's been a lot of work determining how to list my products and how the site should be structured. I had some time to…
Packaging products for Korii
Korii Tiger dumped a lot of sculpties on me the other day and told me to sell them for her. My heart sank a little. I go through a lot of complex steps to present my products to…
Atomic Oxygen Model Display
Inside of my H2O model, I set the Oxygen ball to hold a working model with the atomic markup of oxygen. I created it with eight neutrons, eight protons, and eight electrons. The…
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Freedom for the apples!
I decided to head on over to octoberville and check it out. I haven't been here for years. The last time I came down here, I got a laptop and a filing cabinet in 2006. A few…
Mechanized Life FilterCam HUD 2.0 - Dedric Mauriac
It's been about a year and a half since I tried out CodeBastard Redgraves previous FilterCam HUD. I saw in my Google reader that Mechanized Life now has a new version along with a…
RFL of SL 2008 SS Minnow
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Live Streaming within Second Life
I have been looking at ways to stream my second life experience live - rite into second life. I found a free driver VH Screen Capture that allows my desktop to be available as a…
Dunking Booth with Prizes
DrFran had a request for the dunking booth that I had made. She wanted it to hand out a prize when someone hit the target. After spending some time on it, I was able to set it up…
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Prokofy playing games
Well, that was interesting. I got an IM from Prokofy Neva asking where he could purchase the memory game. I just jolted in my seat. Prokofy? Here? Sure enough, there was a little…
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Business Planning and Improvement Workshop Series
I received a notice from Fleche Xeno about a business workshop. I've talked with Fleche before as he was one of my team mates when we won the 1 Million L$ Idea contest by OSRAM.…
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Getting past Cron Manager constraints
I started to look at the Cron Manager that GoDaddy.com offers for it's Linux shared hosting accounts. It's a web-based interface (hosting control center v2.10.0) rather than…
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RacerX Gullwing's new Snail Race Track
RacerX invited many of his friends over to test our his new course for the giant snail races up in the sky over Montmartre. I took a chance and ran the course. RacerX introduced…
Bombing away with bad jokes
Jane2 McMahon and Rocky Torok suffer our bad jokes. Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit BlaksleeWorld .
Fayandria Foley's lost bet
Fay lost a bet that we woudn't be able to raise 1,000,000 L$ within a day after the vendors and kiosks were made available. Over 3,000 US$ were raised since yesterday and now Fay…
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As happy as a little girl!
So the class is pretty much over. I got done and started running around and jumping up and down with my flexi skirt. "I'm as happy as a little girl!" I would shout.…
Timeless Underground
Timeless has a pretty interesting club here. The particles alone are mezmerizing. I get a little dizzy just looking at the particles comming at me against everything else. I'm on…
Plopp Second Life
My wife mentioned PloppSL to me the other day. She said it was a childrens program and a bit too simple. However, it may be another tool to add to the whole sculpty toolbelt…
Changing ingredients in Chinese Food
I'm pretty sick at the moment. I had some Chinese food at my favorite place today with General Tso's Chicken, Lo Meign, Hot & Sour Soup, and a medium sprite, no ice. The…
Terry Pratchett on stage
Terry answers a lot of questions about Nation, Discworld, and even the carpet people. A lot of intersting questions popped up as well as a lot of interesting answers. Favorite…
Club building
Not much is going on tonight. I started working my dance floor into a club of sorts. I brought in some ideas I had from roughly 10 years ago. I used to play around with 3DSr4 back…
New Product: Memory Game
I created this product about 8 months ago to get more eyeballs looking at my products. It's been a fun game. You can buy it through Apez.biz, SL Exchange, OnRez or in-world. Here…
New Product: Mini Countdown Timer
Summary Counts down minutes and seconds remaining. Description This handy little countdown timer allows everyone to see how much time is remaining, down to the last second. It is…
ELLiebob Bean drops by
ELLiebob Bean came by to say hello. She had been reading up what I've been doing on my blog. The christmas stockings got her attention and she dropped by to get some.…
Social Media Board - Dedric Mauriac
I was helping out Hottie Something to get her skype status indicator working. Most people contact me about it with problems because their skype settings hide their status from the…
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A golden cone - Dedric Mauriac
I'm starting to look into ways of getting people to my shop, and the traffic cone from bletaverse was still fresh in my memory. I purchased the gold version at the bletaverse head…
Note Card Loop Example - Dedric Mauriac
I was helping someone out with a simple request. He wanted a prim to change it's hover text to display messages from a note card. Once you reach the end of the note card, it…
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Echo Canyon
I was to go and help my mother in-law to configure her voice in a virtual environment today. The snow came in last night and hasn't let up yet, so my plans were abandoned. Since…
RFL of SL 2008 Robin's Castle Corp
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Killing girls is fun
So I decided to check out this new game called Smokin Aces. You get a gun and a HUD to play the game. There are a few safe places like the hotel lobby where you start out and…
Korii has that space llama trained
Korii Tiger shows up in human form in a cowgirl gettup. She looks to be setup to break in our local space llama to stop spitting at everyone (which he claims is a friendly peace…
Vouchers galore
I couldn't resist the temptation to start setting up vouchers and testing them out. I usually have these in my lucky chairs. Since I'm starting to use a new server and…
Qavimator Class
I decided to take a break from scripting and started looking at a few events. It's three in the morning and there are classes going on for QAvimator. I hadn't been to a class in a…
Artificial Intelligence at its worst
I found an artificial intelligence bot over in Big Mushamush. Well, it's hard to even consider it as a bot. It's just a giant prim with a picture of an avatar woman slapped on the…
Traffic Cones
It looks like I stumbled upon another traffic generator program. This time it is with cones. It's pretty simple. Anyone who touches a cone gets a link to a location. Once I…
Shadows - Dedric Mauriac
My original attempt to view shadows in Second Life failed about a year ago. I figured that I needed to use a special viewer such as Kirstens viewer to do so. I've been noticing…
Fuhrer is in german a bad word
I had been working on a big project last year that is almost complete. There is a Linden bug standing in the way rite now that is fixed on the havok beta grid. In the mean time,…
An invite to Heck
Jupiter Vale invited me over to heck for a party. The place was interesting. It's like an odd fantasy of devils and dancing in the 80's. Oddly enough, the devil dancing and the…
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A game of concentration
Buy the concentration game on SL Exchange, Apez.biz, On-Rez, or in-world. Well, I now have a new game of concentration. It's a card game played with a regular deck of 52 playing…
Unicycle Racer
I logged into Second Life tonight to find CalebBullen Balut racing around on my Go-Kart track on a Unicycle. Of all the funny things to be a witness to. he came over to my sim…
Joseph Weizenbaum lives on
Knoh Oh informed me that Joseph Weizenbaum had passed way earlier this month. Dr. Weizenbaum is very well known in the artificial intelligence community for inventing the first…
Pillowfish at Giverny - Dedric Mauriac
I received an invitation to attend a live performance of the Pillowfish over at Giverny. I've seen the pillowfish before trying to raise funds to support the people in Haiti. The…
Looking up a Regions UUID
Through a capability exposed by the web-map API on SLurl.com, I am able to query the name of a region by specifying it's global position. For example, Woodbridge is located at…
My pet dog, Odin
Odin is a happy dog when I take him to the dog park. At the park, he gets to play with other dogs and meet new people. I've already tought him a lot of tricks such as fetch, crawl…
A very good pet shop
I've seen Zooby's on SLCN.TV a lot lately. The owner, Carrie Tatsu, had an interview on the shopping channel, and another channel had her on what appeared to be a night time talk…
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Facial Tweaks
I'm still not comfortable with my face. I decided to focus on it tonight to see if I can bring it closer inline with my own real-life face. As I make many small changes, I copy…
A gift well received
Matthew Kidomen got a copy of my touch-based piano today. He thanked me for a "working" piano after he opened it at a sandbox. I expected to just see a regualr SL piano…
Roaring 20\'s Party
The bucket podcast is having a party on the roof of the CUBO Salsa Club - 20's style. Lots of flapper dresses catching wind up here as I dance in my new pair of dancing shoes.…
Buy! Sell! Trade!
It appears that the WSE is up and running strong. I purchased a few shares into most of the IPO's today. I also saw one of my friends companies (RDX) up there too. I didn't…
Forgotten Wars
I talked with Ina Centaur for quite a while last night about her primtings museum and the possibility of creating a piece of art. The idea behind her primtings museum is that…
Real Life Expiring
I used to be a very active blogger in my everyday affairs. I worked with a website with my own domain name over at lewismoten.com/ . Sharlett Shan sent me a message telling me…
RFL of SL 2008 Combat Bumper Boats
I discovered that the SS Galaxy Campsite also has combat bumper boats. Blast your friends out of the water for only 20 L$! The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on…
Batteries and the Rental Model - Dedric Mauriac
Recently, Crap Mariner was commenting on the rental model. He suggested that our inventory would soon offer the ability to rent the use of objects. This is similar to how 'There'…
77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno
I got an invitation to go and see 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno. Blueair.tv is presenting them in partnership with the Long Now Foundation. The event is happening in real life…
Woodbridge needs ... woods
I hadrezzed a few trees earlier hoping to rezz a particular plant. Everything rezzes randomly when dealing with trees or grass. You don't know the type that will rezz next. I was…
Voices, Bots, and Serving Http
Ice Brodie dropped on by hoping to find an update to my synthesized voice box. I upgraded her from 1.4 to 1.6. We got to talking about ai and an chatbot based on a Markov chain.…
Have a very merry holiday this season
I believe Yule was yesterday, Chirstmas is Friday, Kwanza starts this Saturday, and Hanukkah had started a couple weeks ago already. My wife and I are dancing regardless of what…
Havok 4 Reaches the Main Grid
Back in April, the Lindens (Joe Miller specifically) announced that they were upgrading Havok from version 1 all the way to version 4. Havok is the physics engine that lets…
Asking the questions myself
In preparation for this weekends live podcast event on visitor counters, I've started building up this desire for custom reports and more control. I started playing around with…
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A new look for modern nature
Most of the sim of woodbridge is natural. The technology of my gadget shop usually goes against the whole woodsy theme going on. I really want to find a way to fit in, but still…
A new kind of holodeck
I've seen a few hologram/holographic/virtual reality rooms before. This one has a new twist. You can buy a holodeck and then buy scenes for it. These are not scenes of aliens…
Social Networking Workflow
After changing some things around in how I produce content and distributed it on the Internet, I decided to take a moment and map out the different services that I use, and how…
Flix Saiman's NY Skyline model
So thsi is a mockup of New York City (Notice the empire state building).This was made as a small set for a machinma to be entered into a contest. The Bourne Ultimatum Machinma…
Echo Canyon
I was to go and help my mother in-law to configure her voice in a virtual environment today. The snow came in last night and hasn't let up yet, so my plans were abandoned. Since…
RFL of SL 2008 Snow White Day Care
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Hogwarts
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
A new look for throwing stars around
Going through my inventory, the next item on my list is the Falling Stars. I originally made this gadget for my wife. She had a skybox on the mainland and was really into the…
Ping? PONG!
After the exhausing nightmare of working with cron, I was finally able to really get to work on my queue system. The first part is a simple ping request. This is where someone…
RFL of SL 2008 SLCN.TV
Media Giant, SLCN.TV has a full set for interviews setup just for the relay for life main event. It looks as if Paisley Beebe may do a live event from here for her talkshow. The…
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TODO: Access Control List (ACL)
Shortly after announcing the product update for the comment box, a customer came by and purchased a comment box for themselves. I thanked them for the purchase and wished them a…
Pick a card!
Adz Childs and his friend, Sokmunky Rutabaga, were two young children avatars wandering around my shop. Adz had sent me an instant message asking how I was doing. I arrived and…
Falling away
Why is it that every now and then I end up in negative cordinates? I don't know why i'm falling to begin with. I was just standing there in my skybox minding my own business. I…
My freebies listed with NCI - Dedric Mauriac
Someone told me that they got my unfortunate cookie as a freebie over on help island. They went back to take pictures of it and showed them to me. I went over to the public…
A new video card, sort of
Being that my video card continues to crash constantly, I purchased an Nvidia card for my wife. I was choosing between the 9600 GT and 8800 GT. I just couldn't understand why a…
Seabreeze Jazz Club
Elliebob Bean invited me over to join her and her friend Gore Suntzu. We saw a performance at the Seabreeze Jazz Club. Fayandria Foley popped in barefoot to dance to the music of…
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The Anti-Camping Chair
I was talking about camping chairs with Crap Mariner the other day. He jokingly suggested to have a reverse camping chair where people would pay me to stay. It is definately…
Building Robots
I have a nice idea for a small michinima. I worked on creating voices for a dialog last night using MorphVOX Pro to alter the sound of my voice. At the moment, I'm building a…
Equation of a Parabola
After working out how one of the game devices works in my game, I found that I needed a way to make a leveling formula that translates XP into levels. I needed each sequential…
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Good karma heads your way
Grandpa Winkler was walking about and asked me if I had a coin to spare. I gave him 1 L$ and he replied that good karma would head my way. It was nice to see someone who actually…
Tiny Toons Party
Everyone has been invited to have a party with tiny avatars. Dancing can get pretty interesting as you can grow limbs in places that you never knew you had. Most of the SL…
Postcard from Second Life
Edward Lowell is on stage for a charity event to help Ayeshe Millions medical treatment today. Ayeshe is a very cheerful person, but has two benign tumors in her brain. The…
Suicide with grace
Crap Mariner has an interesting clock tower setup on his new sim. The welcome center on the first floor is impressive. An art gallery can be found upstairs as well as an office, a…
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Plopp Secondlife
I decided to take another look at Plopp Second Life. I saw this program when it was first available to make sculptured prims. It still suffers from the same problems as before.…
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Competition
Note - this post is mainly a joke. Crap Mariner has a pretty large clock tower on Edloe. It's the most coolest unique innovative and tastey building I've ever seen in Second Life…
No If's Ands or Butt's!
Phinn Boffin is approaching her 1,000th snapshot and ELLiebob Bean decided to get us all together for a classic line up of skin. Off with the clothes and on with the thongs! From…
Personality Quizes
I started looking for places to relax and think about a report I got from a personality quiz. I found a really nice place. The whole sim here has lush vegitation, waterfalls,…
JIRA Bug Priority
I've come to the realization of how a bug triage works within the Lab after seeing the Lindens in action. Each week, the current bugs filed on JIRA are posted on an agenda. Then…
NaNoWriMo Cafe Catch Up
Tonight I've been typing away like mad to catch up on my NaNoWriMo. I've written about 2500 words today. My daily goal is to write 1,667 words per day. I've fallen behind a few…
GoSpeed Racer DJ's
GoSpeed is playing some tunes tonight at the clocktower on Edloe. There were a few buffer overrun problems with the stream, but a reboot to the router took care of it. Meanwhile…
I'm Busier Than You
During my interview by Crap Mariner , he tossed the idea around that I needed a bubble above my head that says "I'm busier than you" when my avatar goes AFK (Away From…
Skateboard WIggler
Ulee Tarantal contacted me about some scripts to make her carts pullable by a driver while another person sits down. I made a skate board a while back for a Sadie Hawkins Western…
Covered Bridge
One of the main things that my wife and I want on the island of Woodbridge is ... wooden bridges. Surprised? Specifically, we want covered wooden bridges. I found a couple of…
Ornaglyphs
I found an interesting gallery with very colorful cartoon-like paintings. The artist, Sonia Stardust, uses a tablet to draw each one. The colors are vibrant and beg the eye for…
Touching the oracles feet
I arrived within the temple to find the oracle. A roman guard was at the edge of the room eyeing me as I approached. His friend, Chenin Anabuki, was consulting with the oracle…
Flying high spying my land
I like to disable the fog when I'm trying to render things a bit quicker. Usually, I can't see the land below my feet when I'm at high altitudes. I just noticed today that I can…
SL Work Exchange
Now this is something I've been thinking of doing myself many times in the past. Someone has come up with a centralized location where everyone may go to look for work, or find…
Free Complimentary iPads
Mitch Wagner from Copper Robot made good on his promis today and distributed Free iPads to 82 members in the Copper Robot group. His message along with the distribution read as…
Interview with a Holocaust Survivor
Pooky Amsterdam sat down with FannyStarr Hilltop and interviewed her about her experiences in the Holocaust. It's disturbing to hear some of the first-hand experiences and the…
The Oracle
The oracle appears to be statue of a young maiden, full of life. She holds an empty challice in front of her. Her long white dress flows all the way to the floor. The incense are…
Backup and restore your inventory
It was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to do it. Angelo Biondi has created software (Second Inventory) that allows you to pick and choose what items in your…
Looking for the goods
Crap Mariner had a little request for me to scan a parcel and list out all the item names, how many prims they contained, and their positions. It sounded simple enough. After a…
Making a team flag
I've been working on a team flag for our campsite location. I'm going on a record theme of a 45 with the classic adapter in the middle. I've worked pretty hard creating different…
Katiegurl Rhode
I met someone tonight who was a very interesting person to talk to. We talked about many topics and such and in the end she handed me a gift to present to my wife. The woman was…
Groovy Prims
I have been able to successfully put together element #118, also known as ununoctium. Moving my camera around while editing it, I stumbled upon the hollow core of the element. The…
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QR Code Scavenger Hunt
Earlier tonight, I was discussing some ideas that I had with my wife. I was debating on creating a scavenger hunt using post cards to read where the avatars were located when they…
Puppeteer Prim Animation Kit
DrFran Babcock invites me over to Schell to have a look at a pupeteer kit. The first thing I noticed was a dancing skeleton who seemed to fall to pieces when I looked at it. He…
In case of emergency, call /911
I was walking around some random sims and found a phone booth. It wasn't your ordinary phone booth that sends out SMS text messages to cell phones. It wasn't the other kind that…
angry_monkey_dance
Jupiter Vale gave me an angry monkey dance animation. It was funny watching my character jump up and down and beat himself. Jupiter Vale later brought out some flame sticks. She…
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Traffic Cones - Dedric Mauriac
It looks like I stumbled upon another traffic generator program. This time it is with cones. It's pretty simple. Anyone who touches a cone gets a link to a location. Once I…
Qwaq CEO and future of virtual worlds
Listening to the founder of Qwaq walk through methodologies behind Qwaq. Almost time for the Q&A. Watch live on uStream.tv - www.ustream.tv/channel/virtual-world-sig From…
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Equin Farie by Korii Tiger (Horse Pixies)
Korii Tiger has done it again. In my eyes, she is a very talented sculpter of prims. Her fondness of horses really shows off in her latest products for the Equin Farie. She…
Enjoying the other virtual worlds.
So lately I just purchased a Wii online at the regular retail price, but I had to get a bundle of software and accesories for a total of about $500 US. Usually Wii's are on sale…
Fending off ladies begging for my attention
So I was working on placing product listings away from Second Life and came back to see that someone had sent me a Teleport Request. I did not remember who Lorelei Larsson was and…
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Better than XY - Letter Positioning
In my earliest days entering the world of Second Life, I created a script that would allow me to display dynamic text. I was able to create a script that would display 10 letters…
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You spin me right round baby
For a long time, there has been a bug that had me pulling my hair out. For any scripters out there who like to spin things, you'll know what I'm talking about. The llTargetOmega…
Acedia's Tea Party
Acedia Albion, a famouse clothes designer, has acquired her own sim and has invited a select few people to join her in a Tea Party to celebrate its opening. It's a very enchanting…
Online!
After trimming the fat off of my code for my drop-box, it is back online again. The server-side scripts had to be rewritten to handle the newer/condensed form of communications.…
SignpostMarv Martin provides inspiration
I have had problems in the past that I could not find people who could constantly swap knowledge with me. SignpostMarv Martin is the person who I could never find until Second…
Data Linden Bear
Data Linden appears to take after the character, "Data" from StarTrek." The Nicole Linden template bear was used along with Data Lindens additons of hair and the…
Arcade Fun
I decided to head on over to W-Hat to see what is new. I haven't been here in ages. I found an arcade building in their mall. I had fun playing phrase invaders and go to the end,…
Cisco Systems Virtual Campus
I have heard of many big corporate companies comming into Second Life. I have been wondering what they get out of these virtual worlds. Is the target simply just marketing and…
Age-O-Matic
I took a stroll over to Career Builder and found a link to an age-o-matic. The idea is simple. Upload a picture of yourself, answer a few questions about your job, and the page…
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Terry Pratchett Morpork
Our favorite author with a hat and full of sky
On the other side of the painting
I found out about this 3D still life of Vincent Van Goughs Bedroom in Aries though Second Seeker. The sceen looks very similar to the painting itself. Apparently, this is a…
Place your sports bets
Cascino gambling is running rampent in Second Life. Because people spend with Lindens rather then hard currency, gambling is pretty much legal within Second Life and accounts for…
The AvaStar Launch Party
I received a private invitation to the official launch of the new tabloid newspaper. The AvaStar held its party on the AvaStar Island. There were lots of questions for the…
Money Maker
Well, I think everyone is getting a little fed up with how all of the available money trees work in-world. In fact, I got a request from a friend of mine to make something…
Space Llama Razzap Snookums
I've noticed one of the neighbors here has started to sport a llama avatar. The difference from other four legged avatars in Second Life is that Razzap is an alien. To go along…
A castle far off in the clouds
I downloaded a ton of skies made by Torley Linden a while back. I found this one for one photo, but I hadn't looked at the glaring suns direction until I made it back home. I was…
Axe City with Glam
I was flying over a few of the undeveloped Sprint Center sims and found one with a mini map showing a lot of objects on it. I saw nothing on the island itself and flew up to 700…
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Audio Streaming for Live Podcast
With this weeks live podcast being held in-world, I was contacted by 01 Hifeng about the context of the audio. 01 introduced himself as being a linux user without voice chat…
L-system and fractal art
Simulat Almendros gives a presentation about the L-System and hwo he creates fractal art with it. Art from Science is still making its way into SL and is usually done with…
Pajama Jam
The Bucket podcast is hosting a Pajama Jam over at Nowhereville. The party just got started. There is monies for the best sleepover outfits. Live DJ and all the good stuff plus…
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Pingtings Campaign
Ina Centaur sent me a book about a Pimtings Campaign. She has a museum of many pieces of work that represent real life art. Some of the pieces are interactive. To help support the…
Bloom/Glow makes it to First Look
I've used glow a lot with making little machinima movies (where it's been known as bloom). Unfortunately, if it was turned on, it was applied to everything that was full bright as…
Splash Aquatics - Looks just like an aquarium
I found a neighbor on a sim next to mine had a nice setup of a mallard with ducklings following it. I looked at the creator and found a place called "Splash Aquatics" on…
A gifted sim for Yxes
This evening, I listened to the latest Podmafia episode 119 - The sim owners guide to the galaxy. On the episode, Yxes Delacroix explained how it would be such a great gift to…
Cardboard Castle
Flix Saiman shows me his card board castle. it was a little to small when he first rezzed it, but he says anyone can resize the build. The textures were pretty nice with different…
Singing in Voice
Filthy Fluno gives an ad-hoc performance in front of a crowd. One thing we all noticed is that voice doesn't have a delay like streaming. Both Crap Mariner and Filthy Fluno were…
Spammed Spamy Spam
About a week and a half ago, I noticed that one of my domains with godaddy was using a good deal of its bandwidth and disk space was at about 100 MB. I was scratching my head over…
Get your A game on
I don't know what to say about this place. It's got to be the worst theme that I have seen yet. The "A" frame house usually reminds me of ski lodges and winter…
PDO thinks integers are strings
I seem to be finding bugs left and right. I am using PDO to prevent against SQL injection attacks. It takes all parameters that I pass in, and makes certain that the correct SQL…
Crossposting Setup
After the majority of the day, my postcards now appear on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Ning, GTalk, Tumblr, LinkedIn, AIM, Identi.ca, Brightkite, Plurk, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Blogger,…
Marketing, promotion, and advertising
Fleche Xeno gave another presentation for his workshops. This one was for Marketing, promotion, and advertising. I've learned tons on search results. He covered search engine…
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The Elbow Room
The Elbow room has a bit of history behind it. It is one of the oldest hangouts in SL. This little bar stands on just 96 sq. m. of land, but is always packed. Often times, you…
My Favorite Pet
One of my favorite shoulder pets is a snow monster created by aEoLuS Waves. He sent it to me three years ago as a gift. I only bring him out during the winter holidays. I even…
Memory with LSL vs Mono
I've been working on my inventory server again in regards to optimizations. I've really cut it down to size while retaining much of the functionality that I had originally put…
Terry Pratchett in-world today
It's still a little early, but Terry Pratchett is appearing in-world today. I've read/listened to many of his books through Audible on my old iPod starting with the Wee Free Men.…
The end of the contest
Fleche Xeno and I finish making sure everything works. We have had many things that just didn't work as expected. We were a bit stressed out trying to meet the deadline. The…
Giving into temptation
I arrived on New York Island and found myself standing next to some large dominos. The set went around turns, up over a ramp, and then around through to pass under the top set.…
Groovy Scupies with Tokoroten
I'm making some classic adapters for 45 RPM records. I started with an image that I built some prims over top of and ended up with a build consisting of 30 prims. Not too shabby,…
The Doctor Is In
I ported Eliza over to LSL script the other day. This chatbot simulates a therapist. It recognizes a few key phrases and asks questions, sometimes rephrasing what you just said.…
Open for business - Dedric Mauriac
I was talking with Prokofy Neva about the battery idea I had, and they pretty much shot it down. Prokofy pretty much brought up the problem that I wasn't advertising. I had done…
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Blue Hair Podcast #14 Published - Marketing in Second Life
I just released a new episode of the Blue Hair Podcast that I held live within the virtual world of second life. Follow along with the Power Point Presentation Slides . I talk…
Breaking out the chatter bots
Talia and I start talking about AI and I pulled out a lot of AI chatbots from my inventory. The Eliza Doolittle chatbot is open source and the code to it is on the wiki. There is…
The old dining room set
Growing up, the dining room table and chairs that we ate around was unique. My dad had cut down a large walnut tree in back of my grandmothers house. He had taken it to a mill to…
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Same web texture for multiple prims
Earlier, I had though that the viewer was creating a separate texture for each prim that displayed a web page. After looking a bit closer - specifically at a page that keeps…
Lost Totem?
I'm still banging my head against the A frame theme. Walking around, I found the occasional totem poles with brass eagles on them. Normally when I think "Totem Pole", a…
Walk into the light
After what seems to be a really dark and spooky place, I have finally walked into the light. Can this be even more light at the end of the tunnel? I can only hope, but I suspect…
bubble party and hair glue
Dancing the night away, somoene let off some bubbles. Most of us saw gray everywhere at first until the images rezzed. A few people try and skin down as much as I have with my 300…
They look like big good strong hands, don't they?
I'm always playing around in one way or another. Hitting the CTRL+8 and CTRL+0 keys lets you change the depth of the camera to get some really wild shots. Perhaps later, the…
A conversation with Mitch Kapor
One of the Linden Lab Chair and early investor is comming into Second Life to have a converstation about investing in the next generation of talent. Mitch Kapor is known for Lotus…
What are you up to?
So I was setting there, watching a game of take it or leave it. Out of the blue, ELLiebob Bean asks if I would like to help out with some interesting photography. I teleport over…
Blogging through Snapzilla - Dedric Mauriac
Long before I started blogging from within second life, I would often take many snapshots and post them to snapzilla. When different blogging services came along, they started to…
Business planning, profit model
I attended the first class in Fleche Xeno's workshop series. I was a bit impressed. More was going on then I had expected. Serious stuff! The first thing that we did was open up…
6500 byte test
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6,000 byte test
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Got an SUV
So much has been happening lately in the real world. My new appliences were delivered and installed today. My Sprint PPC-6700 came in the mail. Last on the list is an impulse buy…
Haiti Support - Pillowfish
I had been getting a few upgrade messages from my Hermes One MP3 Player while I was offline last night. I received the player along with my purchase of the Fierce Tibetan Gods. I…
Bananadu Roller Skating
Have you heard about an old movie called Xanadu? It was a musical back in 1980 about a guy who painted album covers for bands in a recordstore window. Somehow he and a friend are…
Get your macro on - Dedric Mauriac
I've been trying to get a Macro to work that Torley Linden had recommended in the past. In it, Torley sets up a macro to copy the parcel name and description and paste it into an…
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Relay for Life Clothing Fair
The Relay for Life Clothing Fair opened up day and runs through to the 23rd of march. Atraya Spire helped me get setup with a few vendors on Sunday. I am not one for making…
Close competition in - What is this Crap?
Some of these questions are pretty silly if you think about them in the wrong way. Where to nuns place their wimples? What must an NBA player keep at least an inch from his knees?…
virtualcasting from virtual worlds to virtual worlds
Ok, I have gotten one step closer. It is sort of a tongue in cheek solution. I found that the web browser build into the second life client supports flash. This is nothing new. It…
Business Cards for SLCC
A last minute thing, but I figured I would meet so many people that they may be interested in chatting after the conference. I created a bunch of business cards with a few images…
Blue Hair Podcast is back
My Blue Hair podcast may have faded quite a bit there, but after DrFran Babcock and Gomem Desoto asked about it, I decided to look into getting it back on the air. This time, I'm…
Music in SL - Preview, Info, Buy
Looking around SLevolution, I found a display that allowes you to preview music. Six albums were on display by The Fierce Tibetan Gods. The information provided a biography on the…
Trial License Manager
Although I was storing trial licenses in a back-end database, I didn't really have a convienient way to manage them. Tonight, I created an interface to delete and expire licenses.…
New Product: Wyrd Wall Clock
I made this clock a long, long time ago. It's initial purpose was to help me identify when my region-map was last captured on the main grid, and to determine how long each map…
Fireworkds Show
Crap Mariner invited everyone from the group to watch a fireworks display. Rockets blasted off and all kinds of fireworks were used. All the colors changing and listening to songs…
Missing opportunities in virtual worlds
Pets are something in second life that many people have. There are so many different kinds. Zooby's offers varieties to follow you around, set on your shoulder, hold in your hands…
Research Study
I took my nephew to a couple bookstores today. While I was there, I ended up in an area about business and found a specific part about marketing. I found a book there that caught…
The AvaStar Projects
I got a few branding requests from the AvaStar and had just finished up. Made some pretty dome earrings, a paper hat, a helmet, and some shades. The shades are a neat gadget. If…
Money Tree HUD
I went to check out my clicks in the money tree directory today. Sure enough, noobs see that I pay out more and I have had 3 times the number of clicks. One thing that I found out…
Senator John McCain's Spiritual Retreat
I missed the advertising spam from the last US presidential election. I heard it was bad. I haven't seen much of it this year at all. I was searching for anything for the US…
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RFL of SL 2008 Ants
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Network Upgrades
This weekend, my old router (WRT54GS v.4) stopped responding. The good news is that this gave me a reason to upgrade. I headed over to Best Buy to look at my options. There were…
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Sidewinder Linden Talks (a lot)
The Lindens provide a blog for residents to read new information directly from Linden Lab about the status of the grid, updates, tips, general knowledge, and announcments. Often…
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Modeling clothing textures with sculpties
While I was looking around at Savvy? the other day, I noticed a lot of mannequins on display. These were made of sculpties and had the textures for regular clothing mapped…
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Finding the day of the week
Date and Time functions are always tricky once you need to discover other information besides the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. There are no methods to work with…
Mockup into the next life
Second Life has this profound ability to allow you to mockup just about any idea instantly. I am a person who gets tired of looking at my storefront and needs change every few…
Stockings to Stuff
Korii Tiger asked me to make some stockings so that you can customize the name that appears on them. I created both a gift box and a stocking. When you first rez the stocking, the…
DJ Mr O Rocks in Bolinas
BlackOwl Sorbet looks out over the ball room. Each person on the floor dances with their own little story behind their characters. As the black owl approaches, he is noticed by…
RFL of SL 2008 Roma Pro Vita
Team campsite looks to be a medieval fort with a circus inside. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places…
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A real chess clock
In the past, I had made a mockup of a chess clock to keep track of my time online and offline. So far I've been online for 17 weeks, 16 hours, 4 minutes, and 40 seconds ... in…
Amusement Park of Fun
Tons of free rides over at this amusement park. You have submarines that can attack each other as well as boats and bumper cars. You may race against people on the kart race…
A familliar face returns
So I went ahead and invested in the S-Bot. It turns out that the bot is hosted over at pandorabots.com. The folks at Metaverse Technology mainly build the scripts to tie SL into…
How To Blog from Second Life
I've had some questions directed towards me about a recent post about my social media setup where I post snapshots in-world to many different social networks without lifting a…
First Words
Famouse first words from Terry Pratchett: Hello everybody! Sorry, I’m new at all of this kind of stuff and so can anyone tell me how to get the rocket launcher?
Big Bootie Birthday Celebration
The diva invited me an a lot of friends of hers an invitation to the fifth anniversary of bootie call at the Parkade where she hosts Bootie SL. These nightly escapades feature a…
The Anti-Camping Chair
I was talking about camping chairs with Crap Mariner the other day. He jokingly suggested to have a reverse camping chair where people would pay me to stay. It is definately…
Waterbox
I started playing around up in the sky tonight. I pulled out one of my old scripts to build domes and came up with a model for the chemical markup of H2O (Water). Korii asked me…
Under the Sea
Madison Carnot and Corey Akula host a party underwater in nowhereville. It all started out with a bunch of fish (Flying Fish8!) floating around and spawning new generations. They…
The Unfortunate Cookie - Dedric Mauriac
Someone contacted me a while back. They liked my Unfortunate Cookie and was asking if I had any other freebies. Interesting, as I no longer gave it away free due to the XStreetSL…
SL Trading
It looks like I happened to stumble upon yet another web-based marketplace. This one is called SL Trading. The majority of the site appears to be in Japenese. By the looks of…
Downloading the Metaverse
I was listening to Radar Musakami's Metaverse in a Minute podcast episode 65 today and heard him talk about the interesting way that Linden Lab's had used images to create mesh…
jQuery with Flexigrid
This morning I found a plug-in called Flexigrid that works well with jQuery. It supports AJAX calls to get a paged set of data. It supports dynamic page sizes, searching specific…
Fun with pianos
Today I packaged up the piano keyboard and put it for sale on XStreet. I've rebranded with my old BrighterWorlds trademark (long before the days of SL). Maybe easier for people to…
Sculpty Class with Anjin Meili
I walked in on one of Anjin's classes earlier and missed most of it. I was able to come back for a class he was teaching later tonight. I learned how to take a 2-D image and make…
Serving the Public
Someone had reported a problem with a vendor not working. Apparently the rolling restart this morning caused all of my vendors to compain that the servers were not responding. I…
Going digital
I'd like to thank DrFran Babcock for sending some hair my way. Gomem Desoto directed me to some hair shops. I couldn't find Adam & Eve, but I did find Pazazz. The place is…
Spammy Groups
From time to time, I'll join a group. Group slots are pretty limited. Sometimes, a group will turn out to just be spammery. One such group is SLevolution. Today alone, I got…
Reporting inventory
I've pretty much got the reporting jobs working with minimal problems in development. The majority of the work was simply copying code from the ping scripts. I've also changed the…
Open Mic Night at LosArboles for RFL of SL
Rich Desoto kicks off the Open Mic Night with his guitar. This event is co- hosted by Yxes Delacroix and Rich Desoto. Many other artists are lined up for the next two hours…
Looking to the stars
I keep getting different ideas for my hydrogen atom room. The atom no longer looks like a sphere. The top has been blown out as well as the bottom area to make a view of the…
Returning to Reporting Tools
It's been a while since I've worked these all out. I'm bringing my reporting tools back to life. The tools all work in-world and show graphs and such about visitor metrics and…
Hit me with anything!
Whimsy Goode found my store after viewing one of my products on SL Exchange. She had the same trouble as many of my customers. She couldn't find the product that she wanted. While…
A game with Lewis structures
I was searching for a person and found them along with two other places. One place said it was some kind of game and caught my curiosity. This game has something to do with…
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Qarl Linden Office Session
Peter Stindberg handed me a hud to let me know when Linden office hours are in session. They are usually occuring when I'm not available, but today I had a half day of work. I…
Web Interface via jQuery
Once I got a working front end web interface, I started to look into jQuery to standardize a bit and support cross-platform browsers easier. I have run into a few problems in that…
Sock Monster Game
Working on an interesting game idea for a physics based game - sock monster. Collect as many single socks as possible. Collecting matches takes points away. I'm inside of a giant…
Lil Offcourse
Today is Lil Offcourse's Rezday. Her friends threw a rez-day party for her with a pole party and fishing. Apparently guests had a chance of stippers or fishers, although the…
RFL of SL 2008 Cindy's Mini Mall
Cindy's Swep Shop and the Crystal Slipper. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can…
RFL 2008: SL Families Against Cancer
Pretty pinks and purples make for a beautiful garden with giant mushrooms, fairies, horses, and rainbows. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Getting organized a bit better
My inventory has been cleaned up a bit with getting items organized into categories and tracking down assets and old code that I used to originally create the objects. Now that my…
The blimp is back
It has almost been a year since I was working on this little toy. I'm going through my inventory and finding old projects here and there and packaging them up if I can. The blimp…
Drama Free Christmas in Nowhereville
I went to check out Crap Mariners ice skating rink last night. He was still in the middle of setting it up when I went to bed. I logged in today and saw a drama free zone sign in…
Flying Monkeys
Everyone loves monkeys because monkeys are funny. At least, that is what the folks at the Bucket podcast say. I stumpled upon some flying monkeys that look like they are rite out…
Blue Hair Pending
I just finished interviewing Starla Huchton of The Dreamer's Thread. It's an amazing fantasy novel that you can listen to as a serialized book in podcast form on podiobooks with a…
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Twitter Flood
My little experiment last night to tag all of my messages caused my twitter feed to be flooded. Apparently wordpress decided to post all of my updates to twitter. I had thought…
Reading email attachments
I keep thinking that I am almost finished with reading email, but something new keeps comming up that directs my attention. I need this to be very stable, as I will be posting…
Mapping a sphere
Spheres are perhaps one of the most hardest things to map textures properly. I go through a few steps using a Spherize filter that helps make a two dimentional texture bulge…
Lighting up my life
I wasn't too happy with how the effects of full bright clashed with shiny objects. I wanted the top part of my lamp to be very shiny except where the glass was located. For that…
The speed of Mono
I was starting to perform some tests on the beta grid with Mono. My current interests are with encryption. Encryption can slow down the execution speed of a script if it is very…
3D Space Navigator
I brought the old navigator back out for a spin with Second Life's latest release candidate. I went to the Input & Camera tab and clicked on Joystick Setup. Once I clicked the…
Escher Cubed
While looking for inspiration for Ina Centuars Primtings meuseum, I happend to find a blog with an interesting post about unwarping spheracle maps into cubed environment maps. The…
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I love the silverscreen sim
Silverscreen is a very interesting sim that has "professional" written all over it. Everything seems crisp. textures, land, even little ecosystems are just amazing to…
A new support forum
With my misadventures in being plagued with forum spam, I have now seen my traffic go down drastically. The number of requests are down, but so is the excessive amount of…
Animated zero point
I was able to move my camera around so that I saw nothing except this odd effect alone. The animated colors are just wild. They seem to fade gradually in and out with these light…
Timeless Prototypes Party
I saw Bevan Whitfield plurked about being at Timless Prototype's party. I decided to head on over and the first words I see is Timless shouting "DEDRIC!!!!!!". Timeless…
Twitter Box
Behold the awesomeness of the Twitter Box. Enlarged for demonstration, this product sits in the corner of screen as a HUD. It allows you to post messages to your twitter account…
Terry Pratchett Fans
The sim is full and we still have 30 minutes before the big event.
RFL of SL 2008 Rapunzel
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Old neighbors dropping in
This has been a busy night. First Robbie Riptide pops into Second Life⢠after a year of silence. He dropped on by and said hello and we caught up on a lot of stuff. Just now, two…
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Brainstorming for a niche market
Matthew Kidomen came by after viewing my post on snapzilla about losing visitor counts . He spent a considerable amount of time looking at each categorized vendor in my shop and…
Too many faces
One of the tings that can slow down renduring time is the amount of faces, edges, and points that a card has to render. A point is where the lines meet up. An edge is the line…
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Showing off the Grist Mill
DrFran Babcock brought her friend over to woodbridge to show off my Grist mill. I hadn't taken the mill out of inventory for a while and found that the rotation of the wheel and…
Rabbit Stats to moniter traffic, FPS, Time Dialation
I love looking at metrics and having someone else compile them for me. I just found the Rabbit Stats service that helps me moniter traffic. It also helps me moniter FPS and Time…
Everybody ready?
Just taking one last look down the road before I get some sleep. A lot has been built up in a relatively short period of time. I think we may be on top with the wierdest campsite…
Virtualworld SIG
I arrived early for the Virtual World SIG with a TP invite from Acedia Albion herself. Plenty of pizza and coffee available in the back to keep us occupied during registration…
Dick Richard live in SoHo
Sabastian Jacks of the Dick Richard band was playing Live in SoHo tonight. dickrichard.com/ He was wishing he had a different piano that he liked more. From what I could hear, it…
Virtually Ponged
I had this idea of making Pong work in a 3D space in second life, and sticking with the classic representation of a cube paddle hitting a cube ball. I have a basic arcade game…
New Product: Who Was Here?
My wife had asked me to make her a script a while back that would tell her who was visiting her property and when. It had to be simple to use and simple to understand. What I came…
RFL of SL 2008 Croc with Captn's Hook
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Elemental Vehicles
Seyana Lekach dropped by and started talking. All the while, I noticed she was changing her vehcile into different things. A bot, jetski, helicopter, motorcycle, and lots more.…
Just like the good old days
Roughly a year ago, I was making about 5,000 L$ in sales each day. Presently I am having a really good day if I can make 1,000 L$. SL Exchange and OnRez bumped me over the 1,000…
Groovy Scavenger Hunt
I got another artist signed up for the Groovy Scavenger Hunt today. That makes 16 songs in all that people can hunt for. I created a sign for the scavenger hunt listing all the…
Mathew Ebel Live
Hali Heron (Matthew Ebel) comes to Nowhereville with is rockin piano to help feed the starving purple kiosks and to help raise funds for the Relay for Life. Its been a fun night.…
Wilk Flowers Holodeck
IshtarAngel Micheline invited me to see her gallery over at the gadget trade show. She purchased some of my products and was really amazed at the quality. She later introduced me…
RFL of SL 2008 Boulevard Dance Floor
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
A test drive in one of the biggest vehicles I've ever seen.
Gaius Goodliffe takes Robbie Riptide and me for a test run in his blimp. For the large size, it is actually able to move. The ship is separated into 12 (soon to be 4 with Havok)…
Shantu Selene plays some good ol' country
Shantu came back to perform at Los Arboles as well. He sings us some great country songs with his guitar. During his performance, the Relay for Life of Second Life donation kiosk…
Things to come
ELLiebob Bean, Vessus Candour and I discuss our plans for building up our Relay for Life campsite. I'm clueless for building. I'm more into gadgets rite now. Mainly, I'm building…
Crystal Ball Class
DrFran Babcock holds another class teaching us how to make crystal balls. The balls change color and stand on a pedistol. It's a simple class, but I still like to go through them…
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I Love You, Cron
My gosh, could it be? I believe I may have finally solved all of my problems with the cron manager. This isn't the first time I thought this way, but I've just been through way…
Acedia Albion VJ
Acedia invited me over to her party where she was operating as a video jockey. Many of her friends, fans, customers, and new customers were to have a good time dancing and…
Stop Typing Animations
Tiapa Zamani dropped on in looking for a product that would let him stop his typing animations. I sell a few products that let you play drums or show an icon over your head when…
RFL of SL 2008 Wolves Making Clothes
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Going the distance
With the new building limits extended to 4000 meters, my sim teleporters were breaking down with stack heap collisions. The speed of the teleporters compared with most is done…
Skulpty NPC\'s
NPC's are starting to become less prim heavy and more life-like. I found one NPC made of just 30 prims standing next to one made of 115 prims. I wonder how long it will be before…
Real Time Weather Reporting
Forget those snazzy looking 3-D maps on TV. NOAA actually has a 3-D map that you can walk on. I see rite now that some clouds are over my part of the world and rain is falling on…
Moving Day
I got most of my servers moved over to the new sim at woodbridge. I accidentally attached a server to where another was located on my avatar and ended up loading the Asset UUID.…
IRC Mashup
Hermit Barber dropped on by and complimented me on an owl that DrFran Babcock made for me. I told her who to talk to and we started talking about gadgets and such. She had…
Onion Cart
Playing with a few sphers, I made a caterpillar. Then made it funny looking by giving it a bunch of boots. Afterwards, I started thinking about giving it some saddles to let…
Watermellon Dillon Censorship?
I went to check out Torley's new pad and found a lot of people picketing the place. 4 of them were trying to keep dillon nude, while another wanted him censored. I'm in the dark…
It's Carl Linden ... helpless
I saw Carl Linden was over at the welcome area and asked him for a bear. One of the peeps here was starting to act up and Carl Linden asked one to calm down. No matter the…
Ceiling cat can has jebus holiez bibule
Kaklick Martin introduces us to Teh Holiez Bibul about ceiling cat. The whole bible is translated and funny. CalebBullen Balut preaches the good word to us in a charasmatic voice.…
Christmas shopping leads to new music
Ama DeCuir was looking around at the gadgets that I sell. I am working on my customer service and social skills and went over to have a chat to assist and stir up a conversation.…
A new store for me
Korii Tiger and Catlynn Valencia have been hard at work on the sim. One of the first buildings they put up was my new store. It has three levels of all gadgety goodness. Catlynn…
Castle Royal Construction
I had a few life changing events happen at one time and I hardly got any time to set in front of my computer for the past two weeks. Things are slowly adjusting and I found some…
In memory of those lost at Virginia Tech
A lot of us are still asking ourselves why this is happened, and how it could happen. There are many unanswered questions regarding the largest mass casualty event at an…
Bomb King
I was working on a script for DrFran Babcock so that she could make little shoulder pets. I got the basics down to talk, whisper, shout, change names, growl, change channels…
Name Dropper
Just a little thing I was toying with. This little object searches for someone within 30 meters every minute. Then, it drops every letter in there name. ... pointless, but hey…
RFL of SL 2008 Goovers for a Cure Wagon Camp
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Skies of Tomorrow
Robbie invited me over to take a look at a zepplin airship shop next. Gaius Goodliffe makes many zepplines both large and extra large. This one here is a cruise zepplin that has a…
The Guest Wall
The guest wall is a virtual canvas where guests may create mini avatars. The board is open to everyone at once. You click on a shape to rez a new object. You can then drag that…
Team Captains Meeting
RFL of SL is having a team captains meeting. We are getting setup with voice rite now. This ought to be fun. Chairs are being rezzed on the fly with one of Timeless Prototypes…
Reading Attachments from Second Life Post Cards
For a good part of tonight, I've been working on yet another idea. I wanted to be able to read email. Specifically, I wanted to grab email that I send through the snapshots and…
Editor's Choice
One of my images was chosen for editor's choice - best of snapzilla. I feel bad about getting recognition on someone elses pain. The person behind the avatar is a Holocaust…
unmagic quotes
I ran into a problem today with encoding strings for SQL. Upon looking into the problem, I realized an oddity from a past problem was very much related. It turns out that PHP, by…
Beyond 2012
My wife came to me with ideas about 2012 regarding the great crossover. I've seen lots of documentaries about this myself regarding Nostradamus, Edward Casey, the mayans,…
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RFL of SL 2008 Giant Bean Stalk
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Dancing the bugs away
TheDiva Rockin comes over after posting some new fashion police stuff on her blog with a 50 foot amazon woman. This was just after TheDiva appearing on Going Broke with Daphne and…
Out-dated information
I found this sign at the Isabel Infohub where the Lindens are advertising a Town Hall with Cory Linden on January 9th of last year. That's more than a year old. Cory Linden was in…
Everything leads to the moon eventually
Josh Noonan and Pixelsage Guru help me move my store to a new location in the newly designed Zen Emporium. The place used to have an old look of the far east. The new design looks…
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Simple Encryption in Second Life
I've been working with methods to encrypt data being passed around my objects for the visitor reports with a symmetric cipher. The closest method available that Linden Lab…
Social Conference Calling
It looks like I've learned about another technology out there called Social Conference Calling(SCC). I may be a little behind on this as people have been doing this in Second Life…
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Putting on a face
The process of skinning myself is proving harder every hour that I work with it. It is tediouse to say the least. Once you get a basic area of the face setup, you start to notice…
Voice in Second Life
I downloaded the First-Look client today. A lot has changed since the last time I tried out voice on the Beta Grid. The interface is much better as well as the voice icons over…
Rockin Soul of Dann Numbers
Dann Numbers was on stage tonight singing to benefit the Relay for Life. He's a pretty good singer and kept the place rockin. His ending song was for Kat with ruby red hair. Kat…
Water pines for rent
I was terraforming my island when I got the message that there was a rolling restart in progress. I jumped over to my old shop on the mainland and got another message there about…
Anshe Chung Interview with CNET continues ...
After being griefed at the CNET building over in the Millions of Us sim, Anshe Chung brings the interviewer and audience over to the Plush Market sim. An impressive office still…
Socrates Cafe - Dedric Mauriac
Community Center for writers and artists, movies, discussion, art and more. Home of Socrates Cafe....a philosophy discussion group that meets 8 PM SLT Tues. and Thur. Any one…
No resellers please
I've setup the inventory script so that it does not pass on items that the owner did not create. Although people can get around this by putting the items within a prim that they…
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Mind in Overdrive
Have you ever been burnt out so much, but that your head keeps you going? I mean, I'm actively pursuing new stuff, but my eyes ache, head feels a bit numb, not getting much sleep…
Acid Warp
In the early 90's, I had a little screen saver on my computer called Acid Warp. It was ran manually from the dos command prompt and made some pretty wild patterns by cycling the…
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Product Update: Water Spray
I got a request for support from zichchen Whitfield asking how to turn the water spray off and on. I replied that it did not have that feature. She asked if I could add it to the…
RFL of SL 2008 Elizabeth Blackwell
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Weight Gain Formula
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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physics and Jenga
Over in Cogito ergo sum, people go about throwing dirty matresses, big balls, boxes, and anything else that is physical. One of the avatars demonstrates physics with some jenga…
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NaNoWriMo 2007
The National Novel Writing Month for 2007 is only a couple days away. I tried out for the NaNoWriMo a couple years ago. I didn't get too far before my attention went elseware.…
Just a bit of Trigonometry
I am always amazed at these giant spheres and geodesic domes that people make on large builds. They are made of many prims positioned in a certain way to appear as a sphere. I…
Terry Pratchett in-world today
It's still a little early, but Terry Pratchett is appearing in-world today. I've read/listened to many of his books through Audible on my old iPod starting with the Wee Free Men.…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Mash & Grab and BootieSL at the parkade
After hanging out at the Yak, TheDiva Rockin sent out a message that she was having another party at the parkade. As I went over a few minutes later, I saw Crap Mariner arrive in…
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Slacker Astronomy
I received in invitation to Slacker Astronomy on the Picnic Hill in Space CoLab. The topic tonight is about observing from the backyard with amature clubs, and some of the best…
Event Horizon
Hmm... looks like this art piece should be having a naked woman or something spinning around. It's an interesting piece to look at though. I like how the use of alpha clipping…
Creating SL Artwork with ArtRage
I checked out Torley Lindens blog ( torley.com/ ) today and saw that they listed a few programs that they use often. One was an interesting one that caught my eye. ArtRage. I…
I want a recount!
Dan SpiritWeaver contacted me asking if my countdown timer could reset itself. His need was for a karaoke timer to keep counting down 15 minutes of fame on its own for each…
RFL of SL 2008 Crunch!
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Another breakthrough for blogging
Going further into SignpostMarv Martins recomendation to look into the floater files for XUI (in regards to VWR-4153 ), I started looking a bit closer at another problem that I…
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Marketing in Seconde Life
I just finished up with a live podcast in second life for my Blue Hair podcast on Podshow.com. It turned out to be a great success with the people listening in on the audio stream…
A tightly knit community
Flying around, I found an area with 4 plots next to each other forming a condominium. A common area in the center allows neighbors to meet with each other around a small fire. I…
Detecting Collisions
I've been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto IV lately. One of the mini games within the game is playing darts. To be honest, darts in GTA is way too easy to play. It had me…
Before 2008, Dancing like its 1999
I ran on over to Diva's Virtual CSI:NY Thursday Night Party that I read about on Crap Mariners blog asking residents to fly our flags at half mast. As the loyal minion I was, I…
Jean Linden speaks - month at a glance.
I just dropped by to look at some discussion events and found Jean Linden speaking. In the last month alone, she claimed that over 10 million objects have been created. Out of…
ditial nation
Oddly enough, I used to work for a company called digitalNATION, which in turn was purchased by Verio at the turn of the millenium. Last night a documentary was shown on PBS,…
Geodesic Kaleidoscope Dome
Pooky Amsterdam invited me over to have a look at a kaleidoscope dome. While the media loaded, It appeared that I was in the middle of a black megasphere. I then saw that it was…
Crossposting the blogosphere
I started to look into ways to crosspost my wordpress blog entries to other social media sites - specifically Plurk. I found a way to do it through my old twitterfeed account,…
RFL of SL 2008 Sailing for Life Docks
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 GoC Artistic Cancer Assassins
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Salming and Hastings
This campsite looks like a castle with celtic knotwork and has a may pole in its court yard. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a…
Best dressed RFL avatar
An announcement was made about a contest soon to be ending with 10 minutes to go. I enquired about the contest and it appears that we were to vote for best dressed RFL avatar. Ten…
Free Snow Angels for the Holidays
I was reading the FabFree blog and found an entry about a free snow angel pose set from Persona. She gives all of the details on how to get the set though second life. You get two…
To boldly expand where no group has expanded before
Most of you have ran into this problem many times. You have reached the maximum limit of 25 groups that you can be a part of within second life. The Supercharged by Veyron blog is…
RSS Display
I've been working on making a similar product to my RSS Reader. Rather then displaying hovertext on a single prim, this one displays everything as letters on a back-board. I'm…
JQuery UI and Silk Icons
I've figured out how to get a JQuery UI dialog to show when clicking on a cell in the flexigrid. In addition, I've started to use Silk Icons rather than starting from scratch.…
Scripting Korii's Mech Wings
Korii Tiger had created a fine set of wings a couple years ago. She passed them over to me to see if I could script them to open and close in different positions. With over 129…
Rezday after two years
Well, this post is a few hours late. My rezday is November 28, 2005. Someone handed me a rezday cake that let me blow the candles out. After two years, I am still addicted tothe…
First Bling
I don't know when this started, but on the front page of Second Life, I noticed an advertisement for First Bling. What is first bling you ask? For a nominal fee of 35 US$, you can…
An old game returns
I started working on my little in-box / out-box object. Perhaps I should call it a program or simply a scripted object. I got the basics setup for what an inbox should look like.…
Next view to show script limitations
Babbage Linden talked with residents yesterday about the new script limitations with the next viewer early next year. He appeared to be focusing on no more than 100 scripts per…
Things that have yet to be named
Our Moon Our Sun Our Solar System Earth seems to be a name in a sense, but it's actually describing the solid ground rather than addressing it as a whole planet. Moons of other…
A message from Fay
I received this note from Fay about this past weekends main Relay for Life event. Hi, Is there anyway you could get this thank you note from me to the communities of SL. They…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
How hard is it to sit?
Well, after getting 19 positions setup to sit and stand in different parts of the trolley, I was able to start working on handling multiple avatars. The only problem is that once…
Looking at the sky
As the eye ball scanner reports information to us back on the ground, I debate some ideas on how to speed things up with results. Once it got above 40 meters, there was simply…
Artificial Intelligence in the 60\'s
So I whipped out ELIZA for a chat and found that she too was originally made in the 60's. This little program simulates a therapist. You tell it all your problems and it responds,…
A new inventory icon
Now this is something that I found very interesting. I had a bunch of objects returned to me at once. A lot of us have been through this. All the objects come back as one and keep…
Developing items for the Cisco Sim
I don't think my coworkers would believe me if I told them. I got an IM from Banana Stein asking if I had any products for a chat relay system. I worked on creating a microphone…
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Twitter Flood
My little experiment last night to tag all of my messages caused my twitter feed to be flooded. Apparently wordpress decided to post all of my updates to twitter. I had thought…
Progress Bar Script
This little script shows a progress bar as floating text. Sending Inventory [||||||||||....................] 33% showProgress(float value, float maximum, string status) { float…
2000 Snapshots
Well, I looked over at my snapzilla account and saw that I had 2014 snapshots. I am in 13th place for having the most snapshots. Torley Linden has 8,833 snapshots in first place.…
Glowing prims and transparency
It appears that the new glow feature in the windlight clients exposes some interesting effects as well. If you set your prim to be transparent as well as having a glow, you get…
Getting back into advertising
I'm looking into advertising again. Although it's a bit expensive, the returns seem to justify the costs. Sometimes I think the low sales are simply due to the fact that selling…
Playing with sculpties
I started playing around with sculpties again. The easiest program that I found to use has been Rokuro (for Mac & Win). You start out with designing the perimeter of the right…
Parsing Apez.biz product sales
Cenji Neutra sent me a beta version of his next iServ for Apez.biz. This web-based server/vendor network seems to have been flying under the radar for a long time compared with…
Grist Mill
I started developing my gristmill a lot more tonight. I did some research on how waterwheels work and found different types. An overshot waterwheel has more of an advantage to…
Complex Monorail System
Robbie Riptide invited me along to tour a few sims on a very complex monorail system. We hopped on different lines and passed through many stations. It's amazing how it is all…
100 Word Stories 197 - Whatever you choose
Here is my entry for the 100 Word Stories weekly challenge podcast. The topic for Weekly Challenge #197 is "Whatever you choose..." A pile of coins were poured out of a…
NaNoWriMo After Effects
It seems that each year that I attempt the NaNoWriMo, I get closer to completing the goal and have move vibrant stories. This year, I ran into a familiar face from two years ago,…
Woes of Sit 'n Spin
I found a simple way to make 1 prim seats without using sculpties. I was even able to make them spin correctly while the big wheel was spinning. When it came to sitting, I ran…
Intellectually Odd
Tuna Oddfellow and Shava Suntzu put on another great ball. Academic Freedom at the Odd Ball 11am Sundayacademic system, Marsilio Ficino. Physician to the deMedici, he was also the…
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Joaquin Gustav plays on his Spanish Guitar
Joaquin Gustav played at Los Arboles Amphitheater for Open Mic Night to help benefit the Relay for Life of Second Life. Rich Desoto says that Joaquin Gustav inspired him to add a…
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Fashionably Late
I was getting ready to work on my campsite for the Relay for Life and found myself located in unfamilliar territory. I checked my landmark and verified it said - Groovy Kinda…
Come get your hoes
Along with voice comes the ability for everyone to say what they want. Someone kept repeating that they wanted hoes. What better way to to please someone then to build a garden…
And the winner is ...
Lots of cool builds. One is of a kid looking out the window asking where the partidge is, while a cooked bird is on the table. Another was a giant partraidge that looked like a…
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Achieving Perpetual Motion
I've got the scripting worked out for my pong game so that touch events are mapped and move the paddle accordingly but with a 0.2 second delay in movement. The next step is to to…
RFL of SL 2008 AFK at the Play Ground
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 300m waterslide
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Mushrooms
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Free artificial avatars
Fleche Xeno just sent me word that the Artificial Avatars are now free. They even move their heads around now. I got about 25 copies for myself and Fleche said he got about 50. I…
Concierge Party
I arrived at The Temple sim to find most people dressed in togas. A few pots were that instructed to right-mouse-click and buy. None of them offered the buy option except one. I…
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Camera & Movement Controls
I had been talking to a Razzap Snookums about helping new residents to second life. I've been having some difficulty helping a few new people find there way around with movment…
Landscaper of Flora, Korii TIger
Back in the days of Ultima Online, Korii Tiger has always had a great eye for flora and landscaping. She would spend hours upon hours building worlds on different shards and…
Recycling in Second Life
Chill Moksung of the Second Life Notes podcast dropped on by and took a look around today. He was impressed that I was recycling old tires in Second Life. This potted Pear Cactus…
Payment Server
So rite now I am just about done getting the base features setup for a payment server. This product simply lets you connect to it with an API and tell it who gets how much money…
What the Lindens are not saying
Attending meetings with the Linden staff often results in cryptic messages when they cover upcomming features. Jeremy Linden explained that it is due to the official company…
Comment Box
I've worked on updating my comment box tonight. I reduced the primcount from 7 to 3 using sculpties, consolidated 4 sripts into 1, as well as compiling them into mono. I even went…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 a chat with LadyDawn Starbrook
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 walk-through-cancer-story
Ativan The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team -…
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Chattin about the show
After the theater for Hamlet, we all chatted about later. many of us wanted to see more of these plays. The folks here are considering doing a full play rather than just small…
Saturday Night at the Yak
Jane2 McMahon sent out a group noice to the five islands tonight to come down to the Lonely Yack Texas Roadhouse. I missed Rich Desoto who was on at six. However, I was able to…
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Region Messages
Um ... wow? I was just in a Havok 4 Simulator and teleported back home. The first thing that I saw was a Region Message. This one was not the standard ones in a blue dialog box in…
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Freedom of Modern Architecture
Second Life offers the ability to try out new ideas for impossible architecture. In this virtual world, avatars do not have a need for walls or roofs other then for psychological…
Sculpty movies
So I tried to see if I could alter a sculpties shape by settingits texture to the same texture as the parcels media image. Unfortunately, It didn't work. The good news is that you…
A new RAW island
I learned a few things about the RAW image format that Second Life lets you use for island data. With this one image, you have access to 13 different layers. You can edit your…
A new SIM!
So I looked at my email and discovered that I actually did get my sim delivered just 2 hours ago. I was expecting a wait time of 2 weeks. Just one business day. Amazing. Since the…
Chaotic Peace
Kumi Kuhr created a shirt for me to wear with my Bomb King Shoulder pet. In arabic, it says "I am not a terrorist". Kinda funny with me running around with a bomb on my…
Free Office Hours HUD
Peter Stindberg handed me a HUD a while back to help me catch on to when Linden meetings are held, the topic, location, and host. I must say that it has become a pretty handy…
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Calendar Cog(s)
I keep hearing a lot about the CalendarCog. It's mostly good news that a few people can't stop talking about how great they are. I decided to jump on down to pick up a copy to…
RFL of SL 2008 Sailing for Life
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Survivor Camp
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Tuna Oddfellow Playing the tunes again
Tuna Oddfellow gets his groove on again throwing a night of pure entertainment. As always, he's got some interesting effects going on around the place. The visuals are just…
Multilpe Pages
I was considering this idea the other day on a cinch cast to use a single web page and clip it to show different parts of it on different objects. I took it a step further and…
Oriental Linden Homes
The oriental theme has got to be the most impressive themed community that I have seen yet. Although there is a limited variety to the houses to choose from, it really isn't all…
Harassment and Insults from friendly neighbors
I got a message from David Bloom in an adjacent sim today regarding one of my test locations. The individual asked me to move my location so it wasn't in their view from their own…
Building long-term customer relationship
Another Business Planning and Improvement Workshop with Fleche Xeno in the series. This one went over Building long-term customer relationship. I learned about how to acknowledge…
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hello neighbor
Musa David popped on over to my new parcel and introduced herself as the kid from next door. I've noticed the MG (Musa & Graysen) Designs store with a great waterfront. Musa…
Odd world in a virtual world
DrFran Babcock was going on a virtual tour with STA Travel . I came on over to take a look at her first destination. It was a voice-enabled trip where the host was giving some…
Preparing for a new look
It's been a long time since I've had a shop setup to represent my swave tech theme. Today I've been starting to play around a bit to piece together some ideas. Blue, Black, White…
Putting on a face
The process of skinning myself is proving harder every hour that I work with it. It is tediouse to say the least. Once you get a basic area of the face setup, you start to notice…
These boots are made for walkin
My teams campsite is accessable by our team members rite now. I dropped on by to check things out. The roads are all setup and comes rite through our camp. I just stand here…
Getting ready to play \"What is this crap?\"
I'm not sure what this game is about or how it is played. Crap Mariner has hosted this game a few times before I believe. I am much interested to see exactly what it is.…
Terry Pratchett on stage
Terry answers a lot of questions about Nation, Discworld, and even the carpet people. A lot of intersting questions popped up as well as a lot of interesting answers. Favorite…
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RFL of SL 2008 Athletic Heroes Stage
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
My first money tree
I was just looking around Christianos place and found a shocking sight. I believe that this was my first (only?) money tree. The yellow building, the road on the edge of a cliff.…
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Blue Hair Episode 15 - Tracking Visitors
I just finished giving my presentation on tracking visitors in second life with vistor counters. I gave a comparison at the end between counters offered by Linden Lab, Maya…
NaNoWriMo Continued
Here I am again writing about the same thing again. Schoolwork is done for the day. My laptop had some problems that I fixed up. The last thing to do was the NaNoWriMo. I have a…
Planning SL RFL camp
ELLiebob Bean and friends set down to consider some ideas for how we should build our camp - Groovy Kinda Quest. The Second Life Relay For Life event is comming up pretty soon.…
A classic upgrade
The classic top hat is perhaps the first object I ever made for myself in Second Life. I made this to wear on my avatar along with a monocle, cane, and a suite. Come to think of…
Subscribe-o-matic
Well, I've known about this little service for a long time now. I've been avoiding it because I wanted to setup my own service. However, times have changed and my focus is on…
Reflecting upon the weekend
The relay for life of second life is over. I think about all the events that lead us to this point. This past weekend had so many things going on, it was hard just to keep my mind…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Brain Fog
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Take THAT, Cancer!
We are just finishing up on our second team meeting. I setup a task for everyone to get at least one kiosk setup. Everyone needs to get permission first and report back who gave…
The 10 Finalists for the 1 Million Linden Dollar Idea
Seven hours late and I missed the party. It is tough to live in the USA when the main folks are based in Germany. Of course, I can hear everyone else snickering - "now you…
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Blue Hair Episode 15 Available
Blue Hair Episode 15 has just been released. You can visit the podcast or download the MP3. Power Point slides have been published on Google Docs. I talk about different visitor…
Musician Spotlight
So far I have 11 musicians signed up for the Groovy Scavenger Hunt. I've been making record covers for 45's for each artist and making sound clips from the songs that they send…
Detective Leo Linden
Leo Linden drops by to see if he can help me find the ellusive missing script. I reported a bug I've had for a few months where the server says my script is missing, but the…
RFL: Dann Numbers & Maximillion Kleene
McDunnough's Speakeasy has been full tonight. IshtarAngel Micheline invited everyone in the Second Life Relay for Life group to come on down. I missed Dann Numbers, but I did get…
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Apez.biz API
I'm still working on my own website with tieing things together. Tonight, I started working with the Apez API. Just like SLExchange and SLBoutique, you can sell items to other…
Second Talk Litter
Dropping by the Second Talk booth, the first thing I noticed was a lot of prim litter along the floor. It seems a lot of people rezzed the Second Talk ear bud, but just left it…
Linden Home - Dorajee
This region is full of houses that all appear to be the same, except for the texture. Talk about cookie cutter. The quality of the homes are ok, but the lack of diversity is…
Kerhop Seattle's Traffic Stats
After just one day of using Kerhops's Traffic Stats, I am happy to see a visual indicator of where the most traffic iss in my store. Each corner of my store has an individual…
Up, up, and away
KitUmscheid Writer dropped by looking for brains ... She was looking for a specific brain she saw on SLX, and ended up finding my store. She was impressed with my "Brain…
Skipping ahead of the class to Havok 4
If you have built a vehicle or even driven a car in SL, then you've had your problems with the limitations of physics. The platform behind this is called Havok . Cars are hard to…
Avatar Fashion Book 5 Release Party
Acedia is having a book signing event and showing off some video of avatars in her clothing. Yours truly shows up in the movie as well wearing a black and blue outfit with a skull…
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Top Scripts and Multi Gadget
I started digging a big deeper into my scripting problems with memory and speed. I ran over to the Woodbridge sim to get a snapshot into how much time the server was acquiring. It…
Birthday party for Amy Freelunch
Amy Freelunch is a well known artist in Real Life having her work on display at many museums and galleries accross the nation. Today is her bithday party. She has applied her…
Fishing on Woodbridge
Korii Tiger told me about a fishing game that she was playing and wanted to setup. I had thought she was referring to Nea-Realms Fishing Game. It turns out that there is another…
RFL of SL 2008 Relay Raiders
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Spinners for Life
The Spinnes for Life team campsite is a park containing an amphitheater. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the…
RFL 2008 - Tiny Snail Race
RacerX made tiny snails and is gathering everyone together for a funny lap in the relay. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
An interesting twist on bots
I saw on my mini-map that there were three groups of avatars all huddled together. I thought that they were campers or perhaps bots to drive up traffic or search ranks. It turns…
Colors within colors
Just hanging out at Tuna's place. Chillin with the hat that he made for me too. I discovered a new program the other day called Filter Forge. It lets me make different types of…
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Encryption Anxiety
I have setup my reports to communicate with XOR encryption. The algorithm is weaker than anything I've worked with before. I want to find an open- source license free encryption…
Playing with the sky
I hopped on my other computer this morning and discovered that the old First Look Viewer with windlight was installed. I decided to see if the Grid would allow me to connect and…
Benefit Concert at Mill Pond with Grace McDunnough - March ...
My Relay for Life team, Groovy Kinda Quest, is holding a benefit concert at the Mill Pond sim. Everyone is invited to attend Sunday on March 11th, 2007. Grace McDunnough will be…
Jumping off the Eiffel Tower
DrFran Babcock took me over to the Eiffel tower in the south west corner of Paris. The tower is built to 1/4 scale and reminded me of the tower at the Relay for Life event this…
Making Faces
I found out about CyberExtruder.com yesterday. They offer some software that lets you use an existing photo of yours, and then create an avatar skin from it. I pulled my hair back…
Fiamma Blue for sale
Mastermind Parx notified quite a few people that he was selling his Formal/Casual/Urban clothing store for men for 40K L$ OBO. The store was new: no traffic, income, or user base.…
RFL of SL 2008 LadyDawn Starbrook's Quilt
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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Asking the questions myself
In preparation for this weekends live podcast event on visitor counters, I've started building up this desire for custom reports and more control. I started playing around with…
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Working under the clock
I work on a little project for some folks at NASA to get a count down working for there phoenix launch. I don't know too many details, only the statement of work. Something abut a…
Signpost at the Crossroads
I'm starting to dig into my inventory finding anything I can package up and sell. I found this sign that I made for the Slollywood sim a while back. You can set the text of 4 rows…
A perfect sculpty circle
Sculpties are a bit organic in nature. Due to the lossy compression of JPEG files, the original x,y,z values are changed in suttle ways. To the naked eye, our original skulpty…
Dressing for Fashion
I showed up for another fashion party fashion shoot. Acedia's parties are actually the only time I really start playing around with different outfits. Each time I go, I look for a…
How much is that?
I started playing around with Exchange Rates today for different currencies. The goal was to find out how much 1 Pound Sterling (GBP) was worth in Lindens. Additional goals were…
Funky UFO via AvPainter
The creator of AvPainter had addressed a few bugs that I found with the new sculpty support and added in a few feature requests as well. I must say, the ability to paint sculpties…
RFL of SL 2008 Corp Mark Twain Era
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Entrance to Free World denied
So I was looking around the Justice Commons and happened to see a few cameras moving around this small building. I walked on up and saw lots of gadgetry. The computers started…
Secret Prizes
From time to time, my camera goes inside places where it normally couldn't. I was working with some textures and found it was easier to apply them from behind a wall that my…
Dedric/Lewie Half and Half
Two pictures lined up against each other of my avatar and my real life face. slurl.com/secondlife////1
Favorite Icons
I was looking at the various ways of logging information in my website today. Along the way, I discovered that the system logs had many exceptions regarding a missing favicon.ico…
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RFL of SL 2008 Thumbing Nose at Cancer
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Scar from Incision
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Headbang for RFL
Another pic of headbangers head banging. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Solving the problem of multiple sit targets
After dealing with the limitations of llSitTarget, I found another way to position and animate avatars. It turns out that once an avatar is sitting on an object, it becomes an…
Interactive benches follow the race
RacerX Gullwing has many tricks up his sleeve. During the race, I noticed that the seats that my friends were sitting on were moving along the side of the course. The bench was…
Counting every second
Two people contacted me today asking where they could get my count-down clock. I am a little shocked that it is starting to get demand when I haven't put it up for sale yet.…
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Building Sculpties In-World
I got a nice little product today (Snurb O'Matic) that lets me build my own sculpty maps rite here within Second Life. It is prim heavy needing 1089 prims that I can move around.…
Preparing for Half-Way There Fair
ELLiebob Bean IM'd me and let me know that the team is getting together for a Half-Way There Fair. We came up with a few ideas and she brought up the idea of a balloon dart booth.…
A grovy kinda quest
After who knows how long, we finally came up with a name for our team for the Relay for Life 2007 event. We can now get our HUD's and pledge cards. We tried to keep it with the…
Emotions With Less Effort
I took a look at the Emotional HUD and started working on an update. The first thing to do was to compile all the scripts in Mono. This decreased the time from an average of 0.027…
RFL of SL 2008 Team VBA
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Trolly Time
zeusdinne Baroque contacted me about helping to finish her trolly. She was putting on the finishing touches, but she needed someone to script it. I started out creating an object…
WakaTech Tube-O-Rama
Robbie Riptide introduces me to the WakaTech Tube-O-Rama. The product allows you to specify a You-Tube video that you want to watch on the Second Life Grid. The movie is converted…
Overbearing Rememberance
I had an idea today about getting more eyeballs to look at my stuff, as well as let new users get some money. Camping chairs these days pay out about 2 L$ for 10 minutes. The…
Hang InThere!
Korii Tiger and I go for a ride on weather balloons from NOAA. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD
Reuters with Richard Edelman and Peter Gabriel
I was about to sleep and checked out a few SL websites before doing so. I noticed Destroy Television was in the Reuters sim with a small group of people. I logged in and asked…
Snapshot API
After digging a bit deeper into snapshots, I decided to make the information available for everyone else who may be interested. I put it in the same area that I put the Search API…
Clocktower Hijack
I popped on over to my neighbors sim after I got the following:Crap Mariner has been stuffed into a filing cabinet and GoSpeed Racer has taken over the clocktower, spinning tunes…
Cubed Guard Doggy
Well, I now have a little security system myself. It only allows a limited number of select people to come close to it. People are first warned with a dialog message and then sent…
The end of the second round
There are just a few more hours before the second round is over. I have built up my 1 Million Linden Dollar idea with a large scale model, actual scale, and a demonstration of the…
Tea House Tales @ Diegoland
Crap Mariner reads off many of his "Wacky Adventures of Abraham Lincoln". Many of his stories consist of exactly 100 words and appear often on his 100 word stories…
You've been been tagged!
I got tagged and it's my turn to post eight random things about myself to my blog and then tag eight people whom I would like to know more about. 1 I don't have blue hair in RL 2…
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Digital Nation Still Going Strong
An hour and a half and the panel is still going strong along with comments from the audience. We've covered so many topics, it's crazy and there are still more to come. From…
Terry Pratchett Fans
The sim is full and we still have 30 minutes before the big event. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
I'm on top of the world!
Flying around Second Skies, I found the earth high above in the sky with a arial station of sorts propelling itself to hover over at a safe distance. It is pretty impressive to…
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Voice Commands in Second Life
I originally wanted to buy some 3D software. I got it cheaper then I expected and bundled with a voice chat software. It's nice to hear people talking who don't have voice chat.…
Identification outside Second Life
What services are you on besides Second Life as your Avatar? SignpostMarv Martin who developed SLOpenID.Net has provided a way for residents of Second Life to identify themselves…
Simulated Reflection
A few of us have seen the tricks of the trade when it comes to mimicking reflection in second life. You simply build a copy of your room upside down and make the floor semi…
Rethinking Programming Methods
I've been kind of slowing down on a new product. It's really simple, but hard at the same time. I decided to break all the scripting down into smaller experiments. I know what…
Relay Hope
Our Relay for Life team is participating in the Halfway There fair. I didn't get too much time in SL this week and didn't get my baloon dart game done in time. I logged in tonight…
Jack in the Box for prefabs
Catlynn Valencia paid me a visit today and presented me with a problem she had. She builds prefabs, but has a problem with objects not being able to link with large structures.…
SLSpeak & Big Birdie
I followed a classified to something called SLSpeak. Seems it will evenatully connect residents in SL through the TeamSpeak voice conferencing software. The website ( slspeak.com/…
RFL of SL 2008 Pet Dragon
Hollyjean Allen shows me a vendor to buy RFL shoulder pet dragons made by Todd Borst. These guys are "very" animated. He sands, sits, blinks, looks around, etc. Very…
RFL of SL 2008 Relay Roleplayers
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Beat Poetry
Is it me or did the culture in SL just max out? It seems that every few minutes, I am being invited to some other interesting aspect of Second Life. Crap invited me over to listen…
Match Up Game of Triangles
I happened to come across a game of Match up. I was able to sit down and go for a free play of the game. The object of the game is to move all tiles on the right hand side and…
A look into open-source
When the Second Life Viewer was released as open-source, I gave it a go and tried it out. Many people (like me) only had the latest version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Linden…
Pretty Flowers
DrFran teaches us all how to make flexi skirts. We just got to the fun part where we see our pleats rez and make what appear to be flowers. All of us are wearing green shirts and…
Give a gift
One of the suggestions that Fleche Xeno made to me during his last mareting workshop was to make a gift server. The way that it works is that anyone may use it to send a gift to…
RFL of SL 2008 Boulevard
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Quest for a Cure
Touch the book at the center of merlins tower to begin the quest for a cure.The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of…
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RFL of SL 2008 Relay Wizards for Spunky
A wizard camp team campsite. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web…
I want to be your sledge hammer
So one of my favorite 80's songs came on and I just had to bring out the chicken. Any time Peter Gabriel comes on singing Sledgehammer, I put a giant chicken on my head complete…
Building Architects comming to SL
I took a visit to the homestead sim and learned a little bit about the benefits of SL to architects. The architect on this sim was able to communicate with someone in another…
Fireworks a blazing
Bucket beach is full of firework displays at Nowhereville. They have all kinds. Sparklers, FIrecrackers, smoke, rockets, bursts, missiles, roman candles, bottle rockets, bombs and…
New scripting features in next viewer
I was browsing through some of the pending fixes on JIRA and am starting to get excited over a few things. In SVC-1638, the Lindens are adding a new parameter to retrieve the UUID…
Tic-Tac-Toe Two-Point-Oh
I now have the second generation of my tic-tac-toe game setup. It now has more visuals to help people understand that it is a game of tic-tac-toe. The mapping for the 5-faced prim…
RFL of SL 2008 GORgeous Marketers
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Radioactive
Shut away in a room covered in paper, Hilde was a danger to others due to the radioactive treatment. She could not leave for 3 days, even during a fire alarm.The Relay for Life of…
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RFL of SL 2008 Purple Tears
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Walk-n-talk
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008
Spirit Chasers have a garden behind the movie theater entrance. They have a church at the back too. In front of the movie theater, they have stars with the names of friends and…
Who was here?
Every landowner eventually wants to know ... who was here when I was away? I had a request come in from Korii Tiger. She wanted a visitor counter that was discreet and told her…
Bringing back my theme
It's been a while since I've had a store setup with my theme color/style. I started playing around a bit more and converted part of the main entrance. I'm starting to feel…
The Black Tie Martini Club
It's getting well past the end of the night at the black tie martini club. We've been talking about Crap Mariners threats to start his game back up, "You don't know…
Postcard from Second Life
I show off my little Particle Lab to DrFran Babcock. She purchased an expensive one from someone else on SLX that drove her crazy. If anything, the visuals are really impressive.…
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Emotional HUD Trial
I decided to create a free trial version of the Emotional HUD and distribute it thorugh my Subscribe-o-matic. With 352 subscribers, I am hoping that a few may actually find a…
A Little Speed Boat
I was having difficulty understanding how to sail a flying Tako. I had made a note to myself to just build a speed boat so that driving would be a bit more simpler since I…
bogon house
An odd sort of crazy house, this think keeps growing as you touch the roof and walls. People are invited to join in on the fun and design their own templates to add onto the mess…
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Hanging out with friends
My brother Krozy Rennahan and his friend CeeCee Franizzi were online and popped on over to Woodbridge to check out my tic-tac-toe game. Krozy soon discovered that the Linux client…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Virtual World SIG - Gaia Online
Tonights video conference was about Gaia Online. I forgot about this world as I already had an account as "Lewis Moten" since last July. From Dedric Mauriac via…
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Center for Disease Control
The CDC appears to be in Second Life as well. This small parcel on the mainland advertises itself as a Test Site. There is also a CDC Sim, but access is restricted. The parcel…
Region Directory
I pulled out the old region directory that I first made when I first started Second Life. Interesting to see that ratings are no longer kept in the system. My Pie charts are…
A Fish Tail
ELLiebob Bean sent me a message asking if I had a moment to make some fish for an aquarium in the shape of a mushroom. Better yet, the mushroom was a sculpted prim. ELLiebob uses…
Turkey Lurkey Time
I picked up a turkey over in Calidon a while back. These pets are a bit fun and give my parcel some nice activity. You simply rez the turkey and click it and it goes about on its…
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Working Concept of UFO game
I finally did it. I have a working game to search for alien life! I use my flashlight and buy energy to power it up. I then look around using the flash light (using up energy). By…
Flying Hovergear
Crap Mariner sent me a message stating that he was starting to get into scripting vehicles. I had told him that I had done so myself with my toy blimp that I sell. I found that he…
Countdown Timer available
It's been a while since I have published any new products. A lot of them have been collecting dust in my inventory. I'm going to start working on making them ready to be put on…
And they are off!
The giant snail cannons have to be the best part of the race. The final race is made up of the winners from the first three races. All of them are very competitive. They were all…
More pictures
Hamlet Au continues to take a ton of photoes while we talk away and comment about the daily musings of second life. A few of us are wondering what program was used to make the…
Johnny99 Gumshoe at the Alexandria, Sunset Jazz Club
While I was at Edloe, Petlove Petshop was talking to me about a few other artists. One artist in particular was Johnny99 Gumshoe who was similar to Silas Scarborough playing at…
If only I had a heart
I was showing off how to make your avatar invisible to a few friends of mine. I was just making a giant invisi-prim that covered me entirely. Well, I headed on back to the…
Digital Nation Still Going Strong
An hour and a half and the panel is still going strong along with comments from the audience. We've covered so many topics, it's crazy and there are still more to come. From…
AvatarFasion.net
Indigo Paperclip contacted me regarding a new website for avatar fashion promoting Acedia Albion's clothing line. Indigo is one of the people who I met through the Mr O show that…
1000 words test
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean eget orci nec magna condimentum fringilla. Nunc id enim quis elit facilisis rutrum. Curabitur tristique odio nec…
ELLiebob Bean\'s first extruded Sculpty
After ELLiebob downloaded tokoroten, she spent five minutes and was already uploading some designs. Here is her first one. It looks a bit like a flower. I think we are all going…
Code your own bot
PodPoet Clinquant invited me over to one of the IBM sims. I saw a giant maze. I started reading up about IBM Codestation at one of the billboards. They provide a demo bot and a…
Making Faces
Hamlet Au sent me an IM asking for a few photos of my avatar. He wants to show pictures of follow bloggers on his website - New World Notes. I didn't want to just take a regular…
Santa's Sled
Santa decided to pop on over with an open sled. I think he left the reigndeer at home. I hopped on board and started telling him everything that I wanted. From Dedric Mauriac via…
Down the Mech Rabbit Hole
I wonder how far this tube goes. I started out on a grassy island floating in the sky. Some builds are just pretty interesting in concept. So many things in SL just capture your…
Reset Script vs State Entry
I've been able to cut my scripts initial memory down so that I have about 41k available. Originally I had about 25k available. The primary tips are to reduce the need for…
People-Friendly Tic-Tac-Toe
Now that I've figured out how to setup a working game of tic-tac-toe, I am now working on making it more user-friendly. I'm changing from a 3-faced board to a 5-faced prism. 5…
Service-based Business with Fleche Xeno
Fleche Xeno, the CEO of F(X) Marketing has another Business Planning & Improvement Workshop for Service-based business. We went over different types of services as well as…
RFL of SL 2008 Quest for a Cure
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Beware of the Snail Cannons
The cannons on the race course shoot the giant snails to the next part of the course. The racers sometimes end up falling off of the edge of the course. Wiz Nordberg gives us some…
Thumbing my nose at cancer
I forgot about this event. I need to contact StPaulsub Clio to pose for this thing. Everyone is putting on a clown nose and donating 100 L$ to appear at an RFL official event with…
Yuletide Greetings
I hope that everyone had a great holiday today and got some quality time with their families. I think the best part of the season is watching childrent open gifts. It doesn't have…
Steaming Sculpties with Parcel Media URL
Shortly after I had blogged about my efforts to animate the structure sculpties with my parcels media stream, Claryssa Schmidt responded with a flash file that she had made to…
Visual Studio.Net 2008 - Code Named Orcas
I was over at Microsoft in Reston last night for a developers dinner. I got to see a really neat demonstration of what Visual Studio.Net 2008 had to offer. (Code name is Orcas).…
Dancing Cow?
Oh my. People just started breaking out these dancing cows. THis is wierd, funny, and just ... wierd. But hey, it's funny too. Yea ... so anyways, I got me a cow too, complete…
A Particle Lab Class
I've been sponsoring some classes with DrFran Babcock. Today, Eleanora Newell showed up after class and asked a few questions about my particle lab. I logged into second life…
Cothing Class
Apparently, you must be naked and wearing blue in order to make clothes. Hmm... Perhaps I should consider joining the blue man group. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD
Happy RezDay to me
I remember on my 9th birthday, I stood in my kitchen looking out the window at the back yard. It wasn't anything in particular that I was looking at, but more in deep thought to…
Unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe
If the grid ever gains control of our countries nuclear missiles, we can use my game of tic-tac-toe to save the world. I have added AI to the game so that a single player can walk…
RFL of SL 2008 Golden Goose Savings & Loan
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 ACT Sailing Venice/Elven
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Acedia's Valentine Palace
Take THAT, Cancer! - May 4 - Mr O Show @ 5-7PM - Host Orange Montagne on the superdeck Acedia 104, 214, 33 for the event "Acedia's Valentine Palace". Dance music to get…
Graphic Reporting within Second Life
I've been working on creating bar charts in the virtual world of second life. These have got to be the most simple kind of charts to tackle first. I eventually want to go with pie…
Dazzle Me
Talia Takugawa found that my interface looked odd until she realized that I was using the default skin. Apparently, there is another skin available called Dazzle. The bright blue…
First Place Trophy
I think I got the mockup ready for trophees in our upcomming Groovy Scavenger Hunt. It consists of 11 prims in all. I'll be working on texturing it properly as well as making some…
Sculptured Animals
I just found a really nice sculpture of a Lion and Horse. I love finding sculptures like this that are transparent with light accents. This set had been created by Light Waves.…
My product in SLED!
Miloson Czervik mentioned that my product go a review in SLED Picayune: Vol. 2, No. 11 (09-APR-07) (Second Life Education)
Spotmatrix
The bucket heads over at bucket beach mentioned something about this a while ago. They have this new game setup called Spotmatrix. It reminds me of the tringo and slingo games.…
Fish?
I ran into a few people who were speaking Spanish. Habla Espaniol? No Hablo Espaniol. Habla English? No. And that was the conversation ... Until I played with my multigadget. I…
Joystick Fun!
Intolerable Ginsburg helps me find a way to get my joystick working with the second life client. It's mainly just emulating keyboard commands, but hey - once you get it working,…
Six videos, 1 stream, six prims!
These guys figured it out. 6 live streaming videos into 1 stream. Rite before my eyes they started to build prims having just one of the videos on each one. It was uber cool. From…
S-Chat Bot Mary Jane - Take 2
So I saw today that the creators of the S-Bot said that there backend system was down or something. I took a little trip back over to Big Mushamush where Metaverse Technology HQ…
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Seeing the Light
I finished making the scupties that I needed for my street lamp using Rokuro. An overly complex object for prims takes only 3 sculpties to build. The next step is to work on the…
Searching for myself
One of the things that I have learned is that keywords make a pretty big difference when attracting customers. I created a program that lets me query all of the unique keywords…
RFL of SL 2008 Frozen Peas
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Oak Tree Oakie Doakies
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Geocache makes it to virtual worlds
I used to go treasure hunting with my nephew in real life using a GPS device. He and I would find caches of small trinkets hidden around our area by going to a website to retrieve…
Embassy of Sweeden in Second Life
Sweeden has a virtual embassy within second life. You can find some information about people in legislation. There are some photo's on display as well as an office for Raoul…
Initial Development for Burning Life
With everything going on this weekend with SLCC, I managed to get in to Sl for a little bit and tend to Burning Life. This is a spin off of the burning man. In about 1 hour, I had…
Looking at the wind blow
I had someone come by the other day wanting to look at my windsock. This product is pretty old and was made before the days of flexi. The person wanted to be able to resize it and…
Outside Looking in, looking in
After my adventures playing around Second Life with AutoStitch, I decided to go out and use it for what it was ment to be used for. I grabbed a ton of photos in the woods behind…
myslshop.com HotBox servers
A few boxes are still present, silently waiting to deliver the goods. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Terry Pratchett Morpork
Our favorite author with a hat and full of sky From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
RFL of SL 2008 Gorean Herbs for Life
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Countdown in action
A friend approached me about building a count-down timer a while back. I had an idea where it was going to be used, but I didn't know what it was going to be used for. Here is the…
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Simple Tricks for building homes
Lorelei Larsson was a little confused how I could build a house with only 12 prims and yet be so detailed. I rezzed the house and colored each prim a different color so that she…
Programming CRM software for virtual worlds
This weekend I started programming some desktop software outside of second life. I'm creating a plug-in based platform to allow me to import data from different websites related…
The 768m Sky is the limit!
A long while back, I was listening to a podcast. It was talking about why people in second life do not build in the air or against gravity. Why are we so set on building according…
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They found me again
Many years ago, I've posted over 200 open source scripts for ASP, Visual Basic, Javascript, SQL, C++ and PHP. My most popular piece of code let people upload files with Classic…
Guns save Second Lives
A newbie dropped by begging me for lindens. He was past his 30 days, so money trees couldn't help. I only offered him my 5L$ survey and money tree. Well, it didn't go well, but he…
Bridge Construction
Crap Mariner and I are working on bridging our two islands together. We've been working on a few ideas so far. Since the community at large does a lot of sailing, the birdge needs…
Silly Singing Songs
Today I read about a singing program on Torley's blog that allows you to generate musical melodies to songs, just by singing. I was amused and decided to download the Microsoft…
Building my own galaxy
My wife asked me to create a few galaxies for her after introducing me to the Shinda sim. At that location, I saw amazing sights of ateroids, comets, planets, and a giant galaxy.…
Tic-Tac-Toe on the market
I completed my version of Tic-Tac-Toe and packaged it up for sale early this morning. I put a demonstration up in the shop. Their are four levels of difficulty: easy, normal,…
Global Tuna
I got an invite from Tuna Oddfellow to come to his oddball over in Shiki. I started seeing people talk in many languages as well as a giant crowd just to see him. Throughout the…
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RFL of SL 2008 Bus to Nowhere
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Roadhouse Relay Warriors
A cute bear rides a mini motor cycle. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make…
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Building Sculpties In-World
I am attending a demonstration of the Sculpt-O'Matic today. It works even better then I had thought. I purchased the product yesterday and started playing, but I'm glad I attended…
Paradise Blanket
Alic White introduces me to the Paradise Blanket. This thing is amazing. About six people can sit on it and zoom up into the sky where it rezes different sceenery. My favorite is…
Quiet Winter
Ever wonder why it is so quiet in the winter? Perhaps it is because the birds have flown south, or there are no leaves left to rattle in the wind. Perhaps the snow absorbs all…
Prims, Prims, and More Prims!
Oh my gosh. I am just estatic. Higgins is my home sim. I once owned a quarter of it but then sold most of it off tiering down. I've since then become profitable to tier up…
Active Geyser
Over in Info Island, Hyduke Ebisu and Kim Anubis show me a geothermal geyser. After waiting a little bit, we saw the geysers steam go up in the air. Hayduke says that geysers are…
Frontier Linden Bear
I was talking with Yxes Delecroix yesterday about Linden bears. She loves bears, and wasn't aware that just about every linden has a bear that represents them. You simply send an…
From OSGrid to the Main Grid
In my adventures on OpenSIM (as Instant Blue) on OSgrid
A petition for loyal sim owners
A few of us (Ina Centaur and London Dailey) were talking about a few things tonight and somehow we came to the topic regarding the costs of running a full sim versus open sims on…
RFL of SL 2008 Roadhouse Relay Warriors
A nice serine environment. Environmental sounds can be heard with the wildlife that nature has to offer. The docks make for a nice place to sit down and dangle your feet in the…
Stage 2 - Foxyflwr Cure
Foxy Flower gets up on stage at SL Woodstock for a performance in honor of the Traveling Avatar's first Rez-Day. The event is sponsored by big companies such as on-rez and takes…
Brass Submarine
It's been a while since I had visited Saajuk Bogomil with his interesting battleship. This guy is keeping at it with different things and showed me an amazing submarine he built.…
TIP: How to find lots of people
Chocro Ewing had some problems with SL. They couldn't find anyone, or at least people they did find were doing wierd things. Hmm... I decided not to ask. "I thought many…
Preminition of affiliate tools
I've been burning the mid-night oil on this new project. I've gotten a request to modify one of my existing products. There are some drastic measures to take, but in the meantime…
Late Night Building
I was about to head to sleep until I realized that I forgot to build up my display for tomorrows trade show. McDunnough's Trade Show is displaying Gadgets this weekend. I had…
A tutorial on hiding
I demonstrate to DrFran Babcock how to hide rooms from the view of avatars who are outside. Everything is hidden except for objects that are not transparent, and do not have alpha…
PodCampSL: Women's Role In Podcasting
Lynette Radio speaks to us about Women's Role in Podcasting. For the event, she insists that everyone must dance. We had a blast just answering a lot of questions she had and…
Virtual World SIG
Some people from IBM are getting ready to speak at the Virtual Worlds SIG on Innovation Island (Special Interest Group). Lots of interesting questions are sure to come up on how…
SecondTalk for Skype
At the Mr. O Show, we talk about virtual worlds integrating between each other. Mr O brings up a new product called SecondTalk ( www.secondtalk.com/ ) and I teleport over to a sim…
Postcard from Second Life
TheDiva Rockin asked me why I wasn't listening to Uncle Seth. "Who?" I asked. Multiple attempts at TP invites kept failing from sim lag, as the place was full. Half the…
RFL of SL 2008 Akasha Divisadero / Stephanie Koslow
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Rain Vieria gives an astounding performance
Every musician is unique. Los Arboles Open Mic Night lines up a lot of musicians in a two hour period. Different artists come every week and you walk away culturally enlightened.…
Dancing and teh Colosseum
This concierge party is pretty big. The simulators are pretty lagged, but we are all kicking it roman style. I've seen a lot of well known avatars and lindens here. I even met up…
Direct to flickr post
trying to cross-post images to my blog through alternate means. -- Want to try out Second Life for yourself? Sign up at secondlife.com/?u=9b235e2d4186950d6591bc4d2412ede5
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Happy New Year
Another year has passed. I purchased a sim, appeared in some papers, created a lot of cool gadgets, and made a lot more friends. I have ideas what 2008 will bring, but it's the…
Advertising through Snapzilla
I am always keeping my eyes open for advertising opportunities for my products. moo Money had directed me towards advertising on Snapzilla. I checked out the prices and they are…
How my empire has grown
I just finished getting most of my products listed on my wiki space. I almost have 100. I can feel myself getting things in order. This may lead to product improvements as well as…
The Bizarro Labrynth
Now this place is pretty wild. You have a labrynth of many cubbed rooms. The only way to get between each room it to choose the correct teleport ball. If you choose the wrong one,…
Hair Fair \'07
The hair fair is in its final day. The palce is large and full of different vendors with hair. It would be nice if there were mega malls like this for specific products all year…
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Crossposting Setup
After the majority of the day, my postcards now appear on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Ning, GTalk, Tumblr, LinkedIn, AIM, Identi.ca, Brightkite, Plurk, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Blogger,…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
SamVimes Weatherwax
I was minding the shop when SamVimes Weatherwax dropped on in. I was impressed to see another friend of the discworld. Just like many of other discworld fans, he too has a desire…
ELLiebob Bean drops by
Elliebob drops by to take a look around. Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit Woodbridge .
Live interview
I was interviewed by Dalai Haskell. We went over some of the views that I have of the future of second life regarding educators as well as how I got involved making products to…
Level Playing Field
Lots of people attend the event so much that residents had to create there own boxes to set on. Two other locations provided video feeds, but it is unknown if the Q&A in-world…
Getting your company listed
Now here is another interesting exhibit. Directory2L lets you advertise your company along with other companies in Second Life. The service is currently free for early adopters. I…
Reminiscing of firstland castles and skyboxes
I started to pull out a few of my first builds from my original First-Land parcel. The castle was only 39 prims! My skybox of 27 prims was pretty cool. It wasn't just a box - it…
Open Source Discussion
I talk to a group of people in Steelhead about Open Source Software and its affects on Second Life after Linden Labs big announcement of releasing the client as OSS. Darien Mason…
Ride the Carrot
DrFran pulled out a carrot car and we started cruising all over Del Sol. We originally started out looking for a snow monster by aEoLuS Waves. Del Agua, where i originally found…
A glowing star
Assembling my pieces together, I created a large star as a lawn ornament in my million dollar linden idea. I even created a chunk of grass patched with dirt under it to…
testing flickr@slbuzz.com
oh if only this cross posting thing would work ... Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit Chamcook .
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Woodbridge needs ... woods
I hadrezzed a few trees earlier hoping to rezz a particular plant. Everything rezzes randomly when dealing with trees or grass. You don't know the type that will rezz next. I was…
Going Broke With Daphne and Tamara at Savvy
I was catching up on listing to a few podcasts today. Going Broke with Daphne and Tamara had a special guest Savvy? who was a pretty interesting person to listen to in episode 13.…
The Original Visitor Counter
When I first joined Second Life, I would often find places with a spike in the ground and square blocks on top of it. I soon found out that these were visiter counters. I found an…
NaNoWriMo Starts, sLiterary, and INKsters
So NaNoWriMo has officially kicked off. I started writing my novel and got my first chapter done. It turns out that I'm writing about dreams. I'm using a lot of my dreamy audio…
Virtual InteriorWooden TableWriting Competition SignblogHUDSliterary Sim
Offline Logs moves
I've been having some problems for a while with loging my sales to a free service provided by Spiritfire Musketeer. This service has been solid since I first started using it. I…
Folding some wings
I love the builds that my wife does. One of the things that I liked was her mech wings. They are a bit prim heavy, but impressive to look at. I've been tasked with the job of…
SDForum with Virtual World SIG
Doug McDavid (IBM Academy of Technology) and Dave Kamalsky (IBM Almaden Research Center) and a few other IBM representatives give a presentation crossing between in-world and real…
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Government Organizations using Virtual Worlds
Companies seem to be embracing virtual worlds weather it be Second Life, Qwaq, Active Worlds, or other platforms. It appears that government organizations are often a bit slow to…
Skyward and on
One of my newest praises for second life is the ability to build higher then 768 meters above ground. The limit has been extended to 4000 meters. I find this very useful in terms…
Fleche Xeno's Misadventure in Second Lifeâ¢
Fleche Xeno sent me an invitation to his comedy hour at SLarium on the Isle of Nephthys. Fleche is also a finalist on my team with OSRAM to try and win the 1 million L$ contest.…
At the heart of it all
This sim is just full of items for sale. They are selling my 360 Floor Mat for 20 L$. They removed my notecard explaining how to use the item and replaced my landmark with their…
A desolate quarantine
Walking around this post atomic city, I could feel the radiation just eminating from every atom around me. The road out of town has a sign warning of radiation out in the hills to…
Public Feedback for your business
I was looking around at visitor analyzers and sales loggers and stumbled upon a public feedback device. I am discovering all sorts of neat little toys. This service provides you…
CartoonVirtual ExhibitionInformation PanelsPublic FeedbackSystem Deployment
Lucky Resident Server
I just finished a pretty complex task. In short, this product senses visitors and awards prizes. It gets pretty complex in that it is completely configurable. You can set how…
Now accepting MetaCard
I was reading an article today regarding credit cards in virtual worlds. It went on to talk about MetaCard by First Meta in Second Life. I decided to try it out and registered as…
Your wish is my command
Vanilla Jessop contacted me tonight and told me about a class that she is teaching. In the class, students build a magic lamp. The reason for telling me about this is that she was…
A different kind of photo book
Now this is pretty cool. It seems that the Goddess and Banana setup a photo gallery of pictures that are semi transparent and two rings of randomly placed panels that rotate…
THiNC Printing Press
Acedia Albion got a heads up that I knew something about making books in SL. I showed her a THiNC printing press that I had purchased some time ago. We visited the THiNC Store and…
Stage with RSS Icon Layout
I started working on making a place to give speaches and such to medium sized groups. I decided to make the layout look like an RSS Icon. I have a few products that have RSS/Atom…
The Unfortunate Cookie
I keep telling myself that I'm going to do this one day. Well, it's finally being done. You know how most Chinese cookies have been getting really bad with there fortunes? I have…
A meeting place
I teleported to my store and noticed a ton of people there. Well, maybe not a ton, but more people were comming in via TP. I walked on over to see what the group was so excited…
Nascera Homes - Elderglen
The lab is now inviting residents to look into it's new program to help premium residents settle into communities. This are some mixed feelings over this. The homes are pretty…
Ivory Tower and a 40 meter ferris wheel
I started making a small cylindrical building only to have it turn out looking like the ivory tower. It had too many prims and I started looking into using mega prims. Somehow I…
Fun Gadgets - Briggi Bards HugRing
This ring is pretty interesting. You touch it and a pink triangle rezzes. You sit on the red trangle and you become part of the group hug. As more people join, the group gets…
Spring cleaning
I tore down the old pagoda castle and started playing with my mega prims to make a new design. The new layout is more open as there are no physical walls or ceiling. The display…
Second Life - A 3D Wiki?
So does a sandbox constitute as a 3D wiki? Multiple people may build where ever they like. Although the content does not persist over time and people usually don't collaborate on…
A new plaza
As a member of teh SL Marketing group, I got a message about a new mall opening up on Business Bureau Isle. I arrived to find a classy looking set of stores everywhere. I wish I…
Photography Tip
When taking pictures of my products, I'll usually build up a box that has no textures, and set to full bright. This allows the product to be displayed on its own without any…
Snapzilla Albums
Snapzilla has had albums for quite some time now. I just hadn't mucked around with them that much before. Tonight I've been adding tons of my photos to my albums on Snapzilla. I'm…
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Big Coloring Books
It's interesting what a mock-up of a memory can do. As I walk though my childhood home, the feel of the rooms call out to me. The colors, textures, and sense of them are familiar.…
Inventory Loss
One of my tests that I use on my drop boxes is to copy the large list if notecards in my inventory into the contents of my dropbox. I've had a message pop up each time I attempt…
RFL of SL 2008 - The Big Kiosk Wipeout
At 9:00 PM PDT, all RFL kiosks will delete themselves though a Kill command, coutesy of Chase Marellan. A few of us were in the team captains group trying to distract him so that…
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RFL of SL 2008 Picnic Bees
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Gear Clock
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Winged Lion Statue
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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Relay For Life Kiosk Design Contest Balloting
I received a notecard indicating that the kiosks from SL Relay for Life were ready to be voted on. The past few years, we have placed a big purple kiosk out for people to drop…
Artificial Avatars
During my finishing touches for my 1 Million L$ idea, my eyes continued to be averted towards the build next to mine. The person had what appeared to be five different avatars…
Central Grid
Gobi Greenwood introduced me to Central Grid. I had written about the open sim project in the past. I had a few questions and Maltos Sosa came over to help me out. I can reserve a…
No need for an anti-afk device
I often wear an anti-afk device in SL. It turns out that I probably don't need it. I got a freebie item from Eata Frankfurter through onrez. Within the box was a notecard giving…
Stairway to Heaven party
I'm here at the Stairway to heaven event in Los Arbolos. Now playing ... "Stairway to Heaven". This formal party is all about Led Zepplin. I remember being impressed…
Put the needle on the record
I've been working on the building for my Groovy Scavenger Hunt. I got a spinning record with a needle. I even got a penny setting on top so it doesn't skip or fall off the groove!…
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What the...?
Lots of music tonight in Transylvania. What the...? is playing live as we all dance the night away. Korii Tiger, a real tiger avatar on all fours, watches the crowd and makes sure…
MaHoRoBa Leaves for Good
MaHoRoBa is a nice Japanese comunity that used to reside next to my parcel. Last year, they moved away. It was a bit of a shock, as it seemed that they had been there forever.…
Mr O Tests out his new Mic
Mr O hopped on to test some microphones out. Seems his microphone has problems when it gets close to a monitor and it is picking up everything. I brought an alt on to help test…
Ice Skating with the Bucket Heads
The bucket podcast held an ice skating event. Moopf Murray is well known for making the popular skoopf skates. Ever since Moopf started making limited edition ice skates, I've…
Big Brother
Brig Brother has come to SL, and they need you! A bunch of residents were rounded up and locked away into what appears to be glass fish tanks. Each resident is required to spend…
Sim Teleporters
After moving the ships bridge out of the way into the sky, I came to the realization that I needed a teleporter. I broke out my old sim teleporter and started working on it to…
Language Detection
My projects always starts as a cube. This one is going to detect the language of people who pass by my store, and then display a pie chart along with a link to google charts. So…
Tearing up the music
Beth Odets and Crap Mariner get together for a late night jam session of oddities. Beth was playing a slide flue while crap read som poetry. A fun commentary ensued while they…
RFL of SL 2008 Relay Rockers Small Screen Heroes
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Knighted
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Fall of Troy
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 BALD!
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Relay Roadies
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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What if?
I still have an idea that one day I'll be able to put an entire futuristic space station kind of theme together. The thing about SL is that you can put your wildest imagination…
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Deadline passed, assett server acting up
After dealing with the assette server for the past few hours, the contest deadline has finally come to pass. Fleche here tells me that I have a lot of junk here that I rezzed…
3D Model Explained
I originally created a 3D model of just the joint connecting with a strip of LED lights. Later I added an additional strip that was not yet connected and had arrows indicating…
Writing at the speed of writers block
A few of us are hanging out writing together, encouraging each other to keep up the flow of words. I found out that one other person is pretty much writing a novel on the same…
End of the SL Relay for Life 2008
The parties over. Everyone is packing up to head on home. The bells in these flowers sing melodies in the air, but it still feels quiet. No one is left. The end of all events is…
RacerX Gullwing opens a new sim
This is amazing. RacerX invited over 700 of his favorite friends over to a new sim he had been working on. There were some nice effects all around. I wondered around and found a…
Postcard from Second Life
I purchased a domain name and now I'm starting to set things up. Like Linden Labs, I am looking into many open-source products to tie together. Some of the products will allow me…
Scripting Doors - Keep it simple
Alic had some problems setting up doors in her new office. She had a few that she tried out, but they never semed to work rite. Even worse, the doors rotated differently when…
An Emotional Cube
I've enjoyed the FaceAnimCube for a while now, but I have found myself wishing for some extra features. I've started to build my own cube from scratch. Rather then using a dialog…
Packaging and Converting Essentials
I answered a call with a JENC catalog not responding properly. After addressing and resolving the problem, I took a look around. Ludwig Stapleton explained that I was in a…
The Dreamers Thread
PhoebeAnn Theas was in the write-in tonight for the NaNoWriMo. She asked if I was the same Dedric from two years ago. Apparently it turns out that I was an inspiration for one of…
Avoid Methods
During my day job, I often separate code into functions for purposes of better manageability. Each function is a black box in a sense. It describes what it does, and goes ahead…
Relay Improvements
Crap Mariner improves the chat relay system for his boat so that all simulators can receive status messages of where the boat is located. He rezzed a diagram on top of his map to…
RFL of SL 2008 Memorial Garden
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Mini Snail Racetrack
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Oncology Unit 21
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Knighted!
I found the holy graid and got knightedThe Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can…
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Another trivia night
I arrived for another game of "What is this crap?" hosted by Crap mariner. Not for the timmid, as I arrived to find that everyone is seated on crosses. I pulled up a…
Web Client Publisher
I created a product a long time ago that allows people to display pictures of web pages in-world. I got a message from Pollywog Gardenvale about a scenario that they couldn't…
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Sprint Center
Interesting things seem to be happening on the Sprint islands. It appears to be targeted towards multiplelanguages. I've seen a ringtone machine in one place that was in Spanish.…
Notarization within Second Life
Now this is really interesting. You can have notecards notarized within Second Life. Create a notecard with the details that everyone is agreeing to and mark it so that anyone can…
The First Opinions Panel
I found a sign for The First Opinions Panel. For a moment, I thought this had something to do with the Second Life Views panel. Upon further investigation, this was something very…
Blue Hair - Episode 6!
I just finished uploading episode number six of the Blue Hair podcast. In this one, I talk about Relay for Life, Cisco, Earning Money, Wierd Clocks, creating manhole covers, and…
Mr O Show with DrFran Babcock
DrFran Babcock comes on as a guest to talk about what she does in SL and RL. DrFran is a podcaster for Metal Health Missives on podcasternews.com . She talks about mental health 3…
Acedia and I go virtually virtual
Torley blogged the other day about a program that makes panoramic images. She had a big one made for second life. I tried it out and took it a step further. I took a bunch of…
On the first day of Christmas
I happened to find a little building contest. The theme was - on the first day of Christmas. A lot of us did something with partidges and pears. Mine was a spin off of the…
Wierd Neighbors
I started noticing a lot of sounds from one of my neighbors on the main grid and discovered they had a chicken farm. The wierd thing is that I keep hearing things like farts an…
bogonroot growth
The post apocolyptic run-down shanty town style houses just keep growing - and exploding too. After a while, modules begin to detatch and start floating up into the sky before…
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CSC Bicycle
I was looking up my company Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), in second life and found someone selling a bike from the team we sponsor. I work across the street from…
Data-tracking, metrics, and profitability report
Today as part of Fleche Xeno's workshop series, we went over a lot of different ways to track visitors versus sales. We all got a free trial of Kerhop Seattles TrafficStat…
Gridnaut Linden Bear
Well, it's official. I've been able to log in with the Open Grid public beta client and teleport to other sims hosted by people with OpenSIM. I was able to visit Whump Lindens sim…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Friends Fighting Cancer
Woah, i found a teleport beam and went into space! Very beautiful colors. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the…
Too many SL podcasts
I sent out a notice to a group I belong to full of podcasters asking for images and urls so I can display them in my blue hair stadium. Crap Mariner sent me a box full of SL…
Vistor counter + advertising? good or bad?
MetaXpand offers a billboard system that allows you to track visitors who come by. I often think that if a business solely relies on advertising revenue in order to support its…
Hurry up and imagine
The presssure is starting to build up with each day. I know that I need to get past 5,000 words today to reamin on track. It's getting hard to come up with content. Writing a…
Ripple Effect
I don't know why I didn't notice this before, but looking at things above water when your camera is undernieth is causes an interesting effect. Unfortunately, anything using a…
RSS/Atom Feed Reader
I can't remember if I mentioned that this was finally done or not. However, the feed reader is complete for reading rss and atom feeds. Podcasters can benefit from this reader…
Mr O Show, New Location
Orange and Indigo host another night of the Mr O Show at there new location in Chief. Most of the night was dancing away to some good tunes. I got on skype to talk about…
Building a ships bridge
I'm gathering up some ideas for one of my older domains. Long before I heard of second life, i always wanted to make my own web-based MMORPG. I had many ideas, and interesting…
What ever happened to MYSLShop?
About three years ago, I was introduced to MySLShop. It was simply another web-based storefront similar to Second Server, Apez.biz, Xstreet SL, and OnRez. Like so many others, the…
FilterCam HUD
CodeBastard Redgrave gave me a heads up and sent a FilterCam HUD my way to try out. It is a pretty interesting tool for someone who takes a lot of snapshots. It is an object that…
RFL of SL 2008 Thumbing Nose at Cancer
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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URL on a prim ... kinda.
I was excited a few years ago when the lindens were talking about uBrowser. It was there experiment to viewing interactive web pages on animated 3D surfaces (such as a rippling…
Meeting about relay
Some big events being discussed out the relay for life. Catt Gable, my team mentor gives me some helpful advice and checks to make sure I'm doing ok with managing my team. One of…
Hunting down bugs
I have been having problems running Second Inventory when it comes to viewing images. The author has been trying to work with me trying to find out why my computer has problems.…
Windlight Reflections
One of the coolest parts about windlight that I see is the reflections in the water. Land, prims, avatars and the sky are all reflected. To get reflections though, you need to set…
Finally Ready for Search
My product line is pretty large. With the new search features comming into Second Life, I had to rez and prepare each individual item separately. In the past, object descriptions…
Mapping the world with sculpties
Morph Wollongong pulled out a sculptie he had made of the Theta sim. He was able to create it with SL Proxy from libsl. Morph really likes to play around with neat things under…
Blue Hair 11 - FBI Forces SecondLife Upgrade
[Direct Link to Media File] I mainly ramble today about an article stating that Linden Labs will allow casino operators within Second Life to access personal information such as…
Clocktower Network
James Gill comes to check out some land I was selling and then speaks about his Clocktower Network. The network targets people who split land into 16sq. m. parcels and blacklists…
HigginsBenchModern BuildingDigital ScreensSocial Interaction
PodCampSL - How to get interviewees to open up
Setting here at Podcast Island, I listen to a presentation on how to get your interviewees to open up. This helps your listeners get stories that they want to hear. Do something…
A build contest gone bad
Don't you just hate that? You put in a lot of time and the contest is almost over. Suddenly the owner comes by and returns your objects along with everyone elses to inventory. And…
ColumnsblogHUDHigginsVirtual StructureClassical Architecture
Back to Rokuro
I've been looking around at various things in my shop and decided it was time to optimize the spoked cube sculpture. At 64 prims, it is simple enough that the design of it can be…
Retail and Merchandising
Another business planning and improvement workshop with Fleche Xeno. This time he went over Retail and Merchandising. As always, Fleche had a ton of information to give to us…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Relay Raiders Camp
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Beer Boiled Knights
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Wishing Tomb
Leave a rose with your wish.The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web…
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RFL of SL 2008 King Arthur
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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Amazing Gears
I was flying around checking out my neighbors and found Cogsworth Linden playing around with a few gears. I was a bit surprised to see the quality of these sculpty gears. Only one…
Leo Linden Big Game Trophy!
A bunch of us got into boxes and chased Leo Linden down. I started leading people into the coloseum. As soon as I turned into a entrance, Leo Linden was rite there comming out. We…
Search you inventory by Creator
Oh boy. I've been looking for something that does this for a very long time. I was browsing along freebies on Shop.OnRez.com and found something called SL My Inventory Viewer. I…
Scavenger Hunt Testing
So my scavenger hunt project is almost done. I've saved a lot of different locations throughout our campsite into a database. As each record is found, it disappears and moves to a…
Second Life Business Bureau
Jon Desmoulins introduced me to the Second Life Business Bureau (SLBB) and pretty much said that I had to join it. I wasn't sure what exactly it was all about. From what I gather,…
Blue Hair Memorial
Cleaning up my prims around Higgins and clearing out most of my land. I'm preparing for the final stages before I purchase my sim - fully paid for by selling Lindens! The blue…
Slollywood gets a Second Life
Alice White sent me a message today asking for a custom job. An object that changes its number based on what she says in chat. Alice proceeded to ask why I had left Slollywood.…
Mark Barrett from SLBuzz.com on the Mr O Show
Mark Barrett talks on the Mr O Show about SLBuzz.com. Questions are asked inworld or via skype while we listen to the show live. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD
Bridging the Gap
Crap Mariner and I were able to brainstorm a few ideas to connect Edloe to Woodbridge. We wanted boats to get through the water between the islands, but it would end up having us…
Remember the mainland?
I logged into the virtual world only to find that my land was flooded with obscene pictures from a particle attack in the sim next door. (Both my sim and the other are in a PG…
RFL of SL 2008 Pink, Pink, Pink Noses
Hey, it's a picture of me in here!The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a…
RFL of SL 2008 Alternation
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Herd Thinners
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Judy's Angels
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 King Arthur Inn
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Mardi Gras
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Fall of Troy
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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Sculpted Gear Shop
I found the shop where Cogsworth Linden purchased the gears. He mentioned that they were 500 L$, but it turns out they are actually 4,000 L$! I had to think hard about it. It's…
Bumping with Chicken Soup
After the show, ELLiebob Bean mentioned that I should get some checken soup. I brought out one of my oldest jokes of a chicken. Ellie handed me a pot of chicken soup as well.…
The Podmafia Podcast discusses Philip Linden and his CEO po...
I saw reuters come accross my feed while I was at work today about Philip Rosedae/Linden leaving the position of CEO. Later, I saw an official announcement on the Second Life blog…
Working Solution for streaming audio
I was trying to find a way to stream voice chat from within world to a shoutcast server. I needed to record what I said as well as what other people would say. To do this, I…
A whole sim of tech gadgets
I was just managing my inventory on SL Exchange when I noticed an banner for a Tech Expo. I followed the link and found myself on a sim surrounded by technical gadgets everywhere.…
Knowledge is power
I've heard here and there through rumor mills, the wiki, residents, and even listed in descriptions of some parcels about Linden Lab's attempting to develop an SL certification…
Digital Be-In 15 - Biomimicry
Indigo Paperclip invited me over to Innovation Island to listen in on the Digital Be-In 15 event happening live in San Francisco. Be-In is an annual cyberculture event in San…
Island Planning
I'm starting to play around with a few ideas for my future island purchase. I've laid out a prim with a checker texture so that each square represents 1 sq. m. I also resized one…
True Believers
Someone was passing out "Worship the Lord" animations at the IBM presentation for the SDForum. Oh what fun. Later an open forum for discussion started up. At the end,…
Four Eyed Monsters
Been a while since I first heard of this. It turns out that enough people asked for it that Four Eyed Monsters will be showing in Second Life. Second Life is the 6th most…
Oddness of Architecture
I was looking for some land on the cheap to test servers that I'm making on. I needed parcels in both a mature and pg region to make sure the ratings are working correctly as…
CEO of Qwaq in SL talks about the future of VW
Join us as we begin a new year at the Virtual World SIG - this time with remote collaboration platform Qwaq. We'll have the CEO, Greg Nuyens and experienced users on hand for…
Searching search with Fiddler
I downloaded Fiddler and discovered how the Google search appliance handles filtering mature content and different categories. With all of the information that I discovered, I…
Pointing in the right direction
After speaking with a few people, I decided to add arrows to my search results. It appears that some people may not see particles, or that they are hard to see. In this case, the…
Mapping out touchable areas
I am finding it is easier to make large objects first when mapping touchable areas. Once the areas are defined, the prim can be resized to a very small item. Since the x/y…
RFL of SL 2008 VBA
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Digital Eyes
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Green Latern
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 MC Estates
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Fall of Troy
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Fall of Troy
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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Invasion of the robots
I logged in for a bit today and got a message from one of my new neighbors, Baba Yamamoto. Apparently he wants all my land in Hooper. To express his wishes, he rezzed a whole lot…
Scaling the mountain with Cypress Rosewood
Korii Tiger leads Cypress along the path up her mountain. Cypress stopped for a bit to enjoy the view of the water and the horizon. It's a beautiful day here in Woodbridge. From…
Chillin at the Mars Hotel
MrJonze Independent is playing tonight at the Mars Hotel. It seems that every musician in SL has a completely unique style of music. MrJonze Independent is no different. He plays…
A happy cog
My friendly neighbor/wind-up robot loved my little gift. It was his idea after all. We started talking about one of his recent podcast episodes and interviewing people in a show.…
A sellers market
I put up a bit of land for sale this past weekend. I didn't think much of it since the first night it didn't sell. I was at work and got a message from a neighbor interested in…
The Ivory Tower
After checking out Dell Island, Krozy and I take a walk into the Ivory Tower to learn the basics of building. The Ivory Tower is setup so that you can learn at your own pace. As…
PHP Classes
After learning much about implementing classes in PHP, I went back and encapsulated many related methods into their own classes. I now have a database class that simplifies a lot…
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Crossposting the blogosphere
I started to look into ways to crosspost my wordpress blog entries to other social media sites - specifically Plurk. I found a way to do it through my old twitterfeed account,…
Vio Seminar Series by Xander Newman
Xander Newman invited me to attend a presentation entitled; "Positioning yourself to attact RL companies as an in-world soltuions provider". I invited my friend, Fleche…
RFL of SL 2008 Dive at your own risk!
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Hamteq Park
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Hansel & Gretel's Bakery
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Fireplace
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Scan
Who knew having a scan could make you feel so relieved. The scan made Hilde aware that she was going to be able to go home soon.The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is…
RFL of SL 2008 King Arthur
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL 2008: Steelhead Salmons
Pretty wild crystal skull on the front of a victorian/industrial blimp From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
RFL 2008: Take THAT Cancer!
The team campsite has a funny fishing area with a game, a garden, castle, vendors, and a few chill-out areas with a variety mushrooms. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
A chat about geographic borders and licensing
Chain Allen and I have an interesting discussion about licensing and geographic boundaries. I was a bit surprised to hear that they are required to pay for Linux over in Germany.…
Feeling out customers price perception with BidBox
I often have problems where I don't know how much I should charge for my products. What is reasonable? What will customers pay? Thanks goes to Carissa Heartsdale for sending me…
Helping Hands for New Residents
A few people from the netherlands purchased my online status indicator and needed some help setting them up. They were faily new and needed to know the basics of how to open…
Lonely Moneytree
My moneytree is lonely. I don't understand why. I often find lots of L$ and even saw an L$ that fell to the ground a couple times. It is just shocking to see this happen. It used…
Virtual RoomBlue CarpetDigital ScreensTech DisplayWoodbridge
Categories for the people
When I changed all of my existing JEVN vendors over to OnRez vendors, I went through a major recategorization of all of my servers items. The problem is that no one really seemed…
Walk And Talk
I like these backpacks. You click on them and they give you a menu to go head and walk. All you need to do is press left of right to turn. Even better is the ability to follow…
It all begins with a prim
I am starting to work on a way to backup my data from second life. I was hoping to automate this by going through my inventory with libsl, but the API is fairly limited and not…
The Wonder Chair
Look out lucky chair hoppers, there is a new chair in town. This chair comes in a wide variety of colors and styles. Some are even setup to hand out L$ insteadof prizes. Others…
Television Eyes
How would you like it if your television stared at you all day? That's exactly how it felt when I entered the mothership in Avatrian Central. Each display sets on top of a rock…
Feeding expectations
Yesterday, I purchased a laptop with Windows Vista. I am learning all of the new toys that Vista has to offer. One such toy is the Feed widget on the sidebar. I didn't know how to…
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Acedia's Tea Party
Another screenshot of the tea party. More guests show up and an announcement is made that we will be showing up in her next book, volume five for avatar fashion. This is a new sim…
Grassy Particles
You gotta love particles for making nature possible in SL. A while back, I created a grass generator for a friend of mine. A big circle of grass is created and each particle lasts…
Twilight
Korii invites me over to an art gallery in the sky called Twilight. I immediately spotted her painting here too. Very nice. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD
First Avi On the Moon
I wonder how long it will be before someone in space tries to play Second Life. Chaac Amarula has a sim where he is trying to recreate every detail of the moon. He also wants to…
Open Mic Night
Rich Desoto starts off the night on the mic first. Every Monday night, Rich Desoto hosts Open Mic Night where anyone can take the mic and perform. There is quite a large crowd…
Work is Work is Work
I thought I'd ask about advertsing oppotunities for the AvaStar since it is the latest hottest magazine out there. The staff that I spoke with really liked what I had and was…
JEVN 3.6 Upgrade
The JEVN folks sent out a new version of the networked vendor system for both JEVN and JENC. One added feature that I like is the backup servers, so if one server can't be…
Patching up new ideas
My friends have been telling me that both the gift server and prim search engine are broken. I was able to take a look at both tonight. The gift server was broken due to an event…
RFL of SL 2008
Check this out! From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Beauty's Matress Mart
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 El Cid
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Gargoyles
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Flash Gordon
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Royal Bretons
Artist studio from the TV Series, Hero's. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can…
RFL 2008 - Giant Snail Races
RacerX Gullwing, creator of the famouse giant snail races has a campsite with mini snail races! Everyone is gathering for a full RFL lap over all the sims for a commedic RFL lap.…
RFL Headbanger Event
I have been out of second life for a good while now. Apparently, SL called me and told me I had to log in. Immediately I was whisked away to a headbanger event put on by my Relay…
MegaPrim art event
Well, I don't think I've ever had this much geeky fun in my life. It's a shame that the Lindens are going to patch the hole up again. Honestly - how much of an effect has…
Huggerz!
I set GreyWolf Frye up with an official Relay for Life kiosk. It turns out that someone tried to take advantage of her with an unofficial donation station. I answered a few…
Rosa Gardner - Beat Poetry
Crap Mariner puts his signature upside-down couch on the ceiling to make some more room for those of us listening to Rosa. This place is packed and a lot of people don't have a…
Gardening for Conservation
Intel has a garden of sunflower seeds at the base of one of its buildings. Avatars are encouraged to come buy and plant a flower. Intel will donate 1 US$ to the Conservation…
101 Gadgeteers and growing
I created a new group this past weekend called "Dedric Mauriac's Gadgets". It's about time that I take this whole group thing seriously. Going through my sales logs, I…
Your profile is now on the web!
I was looking through my items listed in the search results of my parcel and noticed some small text at the very bottom: Link to this page:…
Reusable Scripting
As a scripter, it is always nice to have a request come in that can easily make use of previouse scripts that I have written. Take my password generator for example. I created a…
A little redesigning
I've been thinking about going over a new design lately. Rather then have everything laid out into individual vendors for each item, I'm thinking about going back to categorized…
Me in the AvaStar, page 2
I was contacted by Regis Braathens today and he mentioned that he sent 500 L$ my way, and the new issue would be comming out in an hour with my photo in it. I got home and…
I win! Now talk dirty to me...
Chalkmaze Slok sent me an IM ... I could win a t shirt from a lucky chair, but it says "talk dirty to me". Why not! I've never found a chair yet with the letter…
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Corona Verse
Just giving my input during the recording of the Corona Verse podcast. Talking about step up ribbons regarding copying content, and etiquette in virtual environments (a.k.a.…
Making a bigger hole
Crap Mariner has a contest going on encouraging people to get the highest score in Skeeball. Civalrybean Ragu had a gun that he wanted to show off. He wanted to shoot someone but…
Nice Teleporters
Matthew Kovpan brought some interesting teleporters to my attention. You teleport to a location, and the teleporter locks itself out from anyone else using it. From there, you are…
Demonstrating the search engine
I invited Phinn Boffin to come over and see my product search engine in action. After demonstrating how it worked, she walked up and tried it out herself. The first search turned…
A visit with WiseOwl Blessed
WiseOwl Blessed had a problem with a rogue bouncing ball on a path up the mountain leading to her cottage. I returned the ball to its respectful owners. I went up to the cottage…
Counting Away with 1 Prim
While Morgan Kincess and I were still competing to get the last donation into the kiosks before they went poof (over an hour later), I noticed that she had a few visitor counters…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Dallas
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Info Maniac Racers
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Robin's Castle Corp
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 El Cid
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 RadioRadio DrWho
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Fall of Troy
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Relay for Life Racers
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Cisco Live Data Sort
I setup the data sort game over on the Cisco Systems 4 sim. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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Wider, Longer, Turning Roads
As I was just learning how to make mega prims, the servers were being patched to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the mega prim window of opportunity. After I had made a…
ScalectrixSpiral PathWoodbridgeRoad MarkingsConcentric Circles
RFL of SL Team Meeting
Another team meeting where I touch base on where we are in funds raised (+50K). Some of the newer members didn't have kiosks setup, so I distributed them. A few of us are getting…
Happy Rez Day Ducky!
Today is the first rez-day of duckyfresh Watanabe. A rez-day marks the anniversary of the first day people "rezzed" into second life. In other words, it is when their…
Back on the mainland
Cyrus Huffhines advertised to a select few that he was tiering down and had a prime piece of real estate available. It bordered a road and had a nice waterfront. The astounding…
Concierge Party Atop a Mountain
Looking over the temple, Sappheire Moonbeam and I stand silently in the wind. The night gives a nice ambience to the environement here. Oddline enough, The Sweater Song by Weezer…
In the spotlight on snapzilla
After watching Hamlet, Marianne McCann was notified me that I was in the Spotlight on Snapzilla. Cristiano Midnight wrote up a nice comment about how I use snapzilla as a blog of…
Following the trail of BIB
Getting even with resellers, I decided to send an IM to every person who created the objects that Zandor Smythe was selling. Edwin Fitzpatrick (one of the people I IM'd) responded…
Another live podcast next Saturday
After giving it much consideration, I have decided that my next live podcast in-world will be about visitor tracking metrics and analysis. There are a ton of services out there…
Audience Statistics
I found Rabbit Stats last night. Now I found another service called Audience Statistics. It too is a web-based reporting tool that communicates with in-world sensor objects. The…
Blue HairAudience StatisticsFloating CubesWooden FloorIndoor Scene
Philanthropy interests declining
I have been supporting new players for a long time now. My money tree says that I've paid out 49k in lindens (9k donated), and my last money trees stats were similar. I am all for…
99,850 US$
We are nearing the 100,000 milestone for how much funds we have raised this year for the Relay for Life events. It's amazing how much money you can raise for a cuase within a…
Innovative Exhibitors
I got an invite a few days ago and just caught the host at the last minute. This week from May 1st through the 6th, more then 50 people are displaying there products and services.…
Sim Building
I feel that building on my sim has become practically stagnate. I have become unimpressed with the storefront that I had been working on. I took a visit to Skimi today hoping they…
Why is there a hat in my butt?
So I'm flying around and teleporting to different sims and I notice this hat in my butt. The more I try to TP and such, the more things start getting out of place. Why does this…
A wonderful day of gifts
Today I just so happened to be the recipient of gifts. This usually doesn't happen. The first was an astrology sofa I had seen this on on SLBoutique a while back and had added it…
How to lose money by accident
I just went through a bit of a head ache. For all of my land, I always set it to be group owned so that I can get the added bonus of more land ownership for my tier. The group is…
A tour of Mondrian
Robie takes me on a tour of the islands where his new crib is loated. Very high detail and interesting architecture here. It's got an overall nice feel to it. We took a monorail…
Tulips Everywhere
I had a small project to create a particle generator with flowers. Most of the work was editing the image that I was going to use. The clients preference was to have tulips. I've…
Happy New Year!
Woohoo! 2007 on the East Coast baby! Enjoy every moment of it. Horns, fireworks, and any kind of noise maker you can think of are going off. I haven't heard this much noise other…
Krozzy comes to SecondLife
Ack, took me over a year to get him here. Now he has a new computer and has taken the plunge. I walked him through orientation island and have started showing him a few cool…
Nothing
Just up late doing stuff. Trying to figure out if I should blog about something, but nothing comes to mind. So here I am blogging about nothing. Enjoy. From Dedric Mauriac via…
RFL of SL 2008 Schoolhouse
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Virtual GalleryArt DisplayPurple ArchesAbstract SculpturesMannequin
RFL of SL 2008 Bait Shop
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Hybrid CreatureLion Body Human FacePalm TreesGrassCourse Statistics Sign
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Brick BuildingCheckered FloorFurnitureOutdoor SceneSunset Lighting
RFL of SL 2008 School House
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Site Map
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 El Cid
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Virtual CourtyardPaved WalkwayGreen Cypress TreesFountainBeige Stone Buildings
RFL of SL 2008 MASH
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Purple Tears
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Closing Ceremony
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
AmphitheaterBench SeatingFlagsSunset LightingGroup Gathering
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RFL of SL 2008 Relay Roleplayers
Inside the hall of heros The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web…
The MegaPrim Holiday Party
Ina Atlas helped me get started making my own mega prims. I'd rather have megaprims with my name on them so that I can sell products that are fully created by me. I was after…
PrintingsblogHUDBlue And White RingsStriped PatternSandy Pathways
Multiple Voting Stations
Daequix Scarborough came to me asking if I had a voting system. She was using my comment boxes to allow people to drop note cards into each one as a way to cast their votes. We…
Back on the grid
I have been having problems with my computer in general outside of second life. This past weekend, I spent a lot of time freeing up space and then backing up images of the hard…
Praise be teh ceilingcat
So we were getting carried away reading from teh holeiz bibul and I started making a place to parise tah ceilingcat. I'm not sure what it means to be a furry, but it seems that we…
Speeding things up
I stepped up the scanner to detect items every five meters. If at least 16 are found, then it sends back a message indicating the area that I should look at for refined scanning.…
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Odd world in a virtual world
DrFran Babcock was going on a virtual tour with STA Travel. I came on over to take a look at her first destination. It was a voice-enabled trip where the host was giving some…
How much is that in your country?
I was talking with Gobi Greenwood over some possible scripting jobs and was demonstrating some of my abilities to request information from web pages. I brought out my old currency…
Sim Teleporter
I had a small request from a friend of mine asking if I had a teleporter that could travel past the 300 meter limit of regular teleporters. I had worked on something similar in…
Tuna Oddfellow puts on another odd show
I met Tuna Oddfellow with his wife back at SLCC 2007. He put on a live magic show in his room with the launch of his new company. From there on, I've been invited to many events…
Keyz takes the stage
Rich Desoto gives the stage away to Keyz Shilova. Keys plays on a keyboard and takes a lot of inspiration from Jazz and Classical elements. He's got a great voice for singing too.…
Second Life 4th Birthday
I had an unexpected emergency come up last weekend and I had missed out on the Birthday event for Second Life. Actually, I had forgotten about it all week. it seems that the event…
Sim in a box
Someone was bound to do it sooner or later. I'm glad that one of my friends came up with the idea. Flix Saiman messaged me and asked me if I wanted to take a loook at a video.…
CityAerial ViewUrban EnvironmentVirtual BuildingsBlue Checkerboard Building
AdsCampaign
Ecom Giant was offering a few businesses at the convension center this week some free advertsing space on an in-world advertising campaign. It's a system where you pay for each…
Bucket a year old
The bucket podcast is becomming a year old any day now. I'm not sure what day it is, but one of the podcasters for it just had a birthday as well. Happy Birthday Corey! The…
The Parkade club
TheDiva Rockin invited me to a party over in the Drive In sim. The place is so packed, I can't Teleport into the sim. It appears that the sim is pretty full. The good news is that…
Did you know I have a podcast? Did ya?
I have a podcast that is a bit odd from other podscasts. I play music on it from time to time using podsafe music network, and yea - it's hosted over there as well. The thing that…
Holiday Staff class with DrFran Babcock
Dr. Fran Babcock held a class today to help people create holiday staffs. Wow! This stuff looks great. It's been so long since I've been to a building class, and this one was…
Getting a head in life
I was talking with Radar Masukami through Instant Messaging when he revealed that he was using Touch Life on his iPhone to talk with me. He said he was blind as he could not see…
Product Update - Flashlight
The flashlight is another one of my older products. I took a look at how it worked and started shaking my head. A few features have been introduced that I really needed. I added a…
A new tree of life/money
zouzoume Andel took me over to a place selling a different type of money tree. These Wolfhaven money trees apparently have less lag, and don't need to talk to a web server. The…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 THREAD
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Mechanical DragonCherry Blossom TreesSunsetblogHUDRelay for Life
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Virtual ShopWig ShopRapunzel's Wig ShoppeSalon ChairsVirtual Mirror
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RFL of SL 2008 Enchanted Elves
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Info Maniac Racers
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 King Arthur
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Blue HairMechanical WingsFlagOrange PlatformMetal Structures
RFL of SL 2008 Reserved Hilde
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Radio Radio
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Raglan Shire Tinies
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
RFL Awards The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team…
RFL of SL 2008 Felay's Flying Aces
Pretty Lights The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my…
RFL of SL 2008 Riverbend Runners
This is the Riverbend Runners team campsite. They have a nice building, river, stepping stones, and a light house with a barn in the back. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
RFL 2008 - free mini flags
I found a miniature RFL flag that waves around for free at the Steelhead Salmons Campsite From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Washing my hair
One of the latest features of the Second Life Release Candidate allows you to see how much rendering cost each avatar around you will slow down your system. The colors range from…
Another night at the Lonely Yak
Jane2 McMahon has lined up another great night at the Lonely Yak Texas Roadhouse on BlaksleeWorld. MichelleD Ecksol and Scott. KelvinBlue Oh is on the set singing the blues and he…
Leo Linden, Ides of March 2008
I won me a trophy with my leet skils. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD.com
Ariel view of concierge party
The concierge party is laid out on five different regions connected to each other with the coloseum in the center. The temple is to the south,Mt Olympus to the east, Insula…
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THiNC books are great for Power Point Presentations
At my first live event, I quickly found out that people wanted the slides from my presentation. This caught me off guard. The quickest thing I could come up with was to drop all…
Testing ... 1, 2, 3
It's been a while since I've seen a snapshot cross-post from bloghud to my wordpress blog. Hopefully this one will make it over there. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD.com
Relaxing
I've had a tough night and a scattered day. I'd spend some time in Second Life today, but I can't keep my eyes open any longer. At least I found a nice view before I go to sleep.…
15 Groovy Records
I've got 15 records setup from musicians within Second Life for our Groovy Scavenger Hunt. Dawn DeSimone sent in four songs that kept me busy most of the afternoon. Each record…
Guess what I got
Well, I guess it didn't take long before I purchased the set myself. I went with the figure 8 track that was on display at prim hearts. It was pretty big and I wasn't too sure if…
Having fun with lilypads
I had an idea for how to make some interesting lilypads. Most of the work was done creating an image with some transparency of a cluster of lilypads. Once I was done, I put them…
The Undiscovered Ocean
As I look out across the ocean, I wonder about what new things will spring up in the future. I purchased a new region today called "Woodbridge". With any luck, I'll have…
Selling Realestate
So after a week I was able to sell my property next to a linden road. I purchased it for 75,000 L$ and sold it for 55,000 L$. That's a loss of about 75 US$ (20,000 L$ @266/1). The…
Getting ready for an Irish day
I redesigned my infamouse classic top hat. I made a variation of it to give that festive feeling of St. Patricks Day holiday wear. I may put a few particles in it as well, or have…
High on prims
Have you ever wondered about how hacks are figured out? Half the time it is by accedent or assumption that things work because that is how they ought to. Other times, they come…
Acedia's Photo Shoot
I arrived a bit late to the Acedia Super Deck where Acdedia Albion herself was taking photos. Anyone who was wearing one of her outfits could pose for her to be in the next book -…
Flickr SLideViewer
Finn Poitier directed my eyes over to SLideViewer after I helped him with the RSS Reader for his feed. AngryBeth Shortbread and Kisa Naumova created a combination of LSL and PHP…
Building the universe
I've been helping DrFran out with a project she was making to teach in one of her classes. Tonight was the first night of her teaching how to make a planet staff with rotating…
Fixing the media
Fred and I work on fixing one of the media streams at the leading edge forum. He's catching on quick on how to administrate the island. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Playing with the air
It turns out that anything at 400.000 meters and above are not rendered at all on region maps. When building sky boxes, keep this in mind and do not build too low.I have a few…
How to not see shadows
I thought I found a way to enable shadows. Unfortunately, I didn't read everything. In debug settings, set both RenderUseFBO and RenderDeferred to true. Then set graphic…
Touch Me with Mono
So I logged into the main grid tonight using the Beta viewer to try out compiling some LSL code in Mono, as well as trying out some of the new touch position methods. The LSL…
RTFM
Ok, so I found a note card for quirks with Wall-E. The owner says that I need to turn off the AO Override, and then turn it back on. Now I have a better picture of Wall-E and Eve.…
Testing Box Vendors
I've gotten everything separated into simple box vendors now. All of them show a price and permissions. You touch them and it defaults to showing the buy dialog. I held back on a…
The SL Podcast Network
Radar Masukami and I talk shop about the Second Simple Syndication (SSS) protocol. This is a very short version of the RSS protocol. It was needed to cut down the weight of RSS so…
Pink Horsies
Well, the relay is over, but we are all going for a victory lap From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
My Little PonyPurple Pony CostumeGroup PhotoBleachersChat Hud
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 I Love Lucy
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Elephants
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Drama Libre Clown
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Enchanted Elves
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Top of Merlin's Tower
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Mechanical StructureNight SceneSpherical ElementsHexagonal PlatformStarry Sky
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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On the spot RFL meeting
I got a group notice about a team captains meeting. I hadn't even realized one was scheduled today. Apparently the meeting was bumped up to be held earlier. I was in the middle of…
Pool of Reflections
I couldn't help but to get down and look at myself reflected back at me through the water. Finally I could see clearly what everyone else saw with my own two eyes. No more…
Getting up and running
Now that SLB has become Shop.OnRez and become web-enabled, I've repopulated all of my vendors to support the new website. After a few days, I feel like I've gotten a ton of work…
Another night in woodbridge
Korii has started to get things done with her friends in woodbridge. Zenos made a bunch of mushrooms that looks pretty impressive and they built a nice wooden bridge as well. I'd…
A tour of the podcasting community
Crap Mariner was happy that I joined my sim with Los Arboles and Nowhereville. It's a nice community here made of of mostly podcasters and listeners. They are all mostly Second…
How to Earn Money Learning Center
With the newly purchased land, I decided to make a learning center to help people learn how to earn money. I don't like the phrase "How to Make Money". You can't. You…
IllustrationRoadwayMulti-Level StructureBlue And WhitePillars
Podcamp SL
Podcamp SL starts tonight and what better way then to kick it off with a party? Everyone tonight is supposed to be dressed up as there favorite podcaster. Well ... not everyone…
Kim Seifert Live @ The Lily Pad Lounge
Checking out events, I saw something going on at the Lily Pad Lounge. I was here a long time ago, and I'm surprised at how little it has changed. Frog Marlow was singing at that…
Blame Sculpties on me
I finished downloading all of the metaverse messenger files today and was able to use the search feature in the Adobe Reading to search the text of all PDF's at once. I found my…
1 Prim Tic-Tac-Toe
I was playing around with ideas this past weekend contiplating what the bare minimum was to make a game of tic-tac-toe. I came up with an image to represent all 27 different…
Prim Search Engine
A while back, I made a scanner to find all objects on a parcel. It was made for a friend to solve a simple problem to hunt for prims. Royer Pessoa had suggested that I should make…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Outdoor SceneTreesSmall BuildingWater ReflectionMultistory Building
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Caravan for a Cure
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Gianfar Kingdom
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 The Wall of Impact
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Stone MonumentThe Wall Of ImpactCircular Water FeatureMushroom ObjectsOpen Space
RFL of SL 2008 Music Academy Ensemble
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Fireworks
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Take THAT, Cancer!
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Ready for Relay
The main event is upon us this weekend. Our campsite was bare this morning, and now .... it's a castle, garden, fishing grounds, mushroom ring, and a chill-out area. I think most…
A simple media player
Virtual Bacon was asking me if I knew of a simple button that people could press, and the media would play. The setup would need to be very simple as well. Most of my stuff is…
Optimizing prim count
I haven't had to deal with prim limitations much since I had moved away from the mainland onto my own sim. Now that I have a considerable amount of property on the mainland, I am…
New Acedia Magazine
Acedia had a launch event for her magazine today - Avatar fashion by Acedia Issue 1. Orange Montagne from the Mr O Show was a DJ at the event while Acedia Albion took photos and…
Charting from within SL
My charts are comming along great. Today I found out about Googles Chart API. With just a customized URL, I can link directly to google charts. Even though I show a chart…
Script is missing from database
I just don't get it. I've reported this problem a few times over the past few months. I have a object that I created with a script inside. I rez the object, open the inventory and…
A new product search engine
I was introduced to a new search engine tonight for SL products. It works like most others, in that you rez an object and put your products inside. You tell it to update, and it…
Grace McDunnough - Live
It's the event we have all been building up for. Grace McDunnough is playing live to benefit the Relay for Life team "Groovy Kinda Quest" over at the Tavern on Mill…
Talkin' Bout' Trains
Acedia Albion, Analogue Montagne, and I talk about Trains. The main concern is that the trains here are no-mod. I've used Kitto Flora's trains for a long time. I liked it a lot,…
The Lindens are Right
I brought out the big wheel to show off to Mr. O himself from TheMrOShow.com. I need to finish this thing up and make an orange themed wheel. Maybe I'll come on his show again and…
A hard days/nights work
Sometimes work gets so involved, that by time I get home, I can't shake the feeling of "work mode". It's those times when your brain keeps racing to solve problems, or…
Capitol Hill and #debate08
Well, I found the place of senators at last. No one is working through the night here though. I arrived here and found a bunch of pumpkins with twitter feeds attached to them…
New Workshop Entrance
When arriving at my workshop in the sky, people were not always aware of where they ended up. A few mistook it for another part of my shop. As a result, I have clearly labled the…
New Product: Lucky Shopper
Phinn Boffin sent me a message while I was offline asking if I had a product that could hand out coupons to every 10th visitor. I did have similar products, but the scope of the…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Ancient Stone RoomStone PillarsFloating PlatformsGlass TubeHolographic Display
RFL of SL 2008 Ishtar
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
White StructuresSpiral WalkwayTranslucent TowersCircular PlatformFantasy Architecture
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RFL of SL 2008 King Arthur
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 FLash Gordon
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Indoor SceneYellow SlidePotted PlantsNight SkyBuilding Interior
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Group PoseBlue Top HatWhite Tiger StatueWaving FlagsOutdoor Scene
RFL of SL 2008 RadioRadio
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
Blogher Afterparty
Silo Uriza invited me to a Blogher in Second Life after party. Lots of people dancing and carrying on. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
RFL 2008 park
One of the many pleasent parks along the relay From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Mime Nekko's
I arrived home to receive a complaint about a black cat lurking around one of the properties in my sim. The "cat" does not respond to anyone and stands there doing…
Snail races?
lets see if i can win this thing! From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD.com
Mr O Show to come back
Orange Montagne mentioned some hints about wanting to get together and chat voice about things in SL again. The Mr. O. show was great when I went to the shows in the past. The…
Sculpty + movies = animated sculpty!
I don't know why I didn't see it at first, but it works! I set the texture of my parcel to the same texture that defined my sculpty. This is amazing. ELLiebob Bean and I have some…
Resident Bear Collector
Ok, for some time I've been collecting Linden Bears and handing out my Dedric Mauriac Brrrr.... in reaturn. Oddly enough, a Linden has flipped the idea around and started building…
Glow!
Well this is pretty cool. I saw an interesting picture with glow effects over at snapzilla . I just had to know how it was done. Gore Suntzu said that they did it with debug…
Micro-Dividend Distributors
Now this is an interesting gadget to help increase traffic. Visitors pay the machine to register. Once registered, they come back each day to grab a dividend (starting at 1 L$).…
Tools of the trade with skype
shamblesguru Voom contacted me about putting the skype status indicator on display. I didn't have a problem with it. He sent me a slurl today showing where it was. It took me to…
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Showing off our AVI's
Branco Merlin shows off a ton of his avi's. This one is an alien. He's just getting started, but he has made a lot of them that look pretty neat. From Dedric Mauriac via…
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RFL of SL 2008 Deep Under Caledon Mountain
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
XML-RPC and HTTP Requests
I could have sworn that I've tried this before. I just couldn't find my tests from before in my inventory. The goal was to see if you could make an RPC call with an HTTP request…
Easier to get my Freebies
The number of freebies that I've been packaging up has been increasing this past week. I've gotten so many that I decided it would be easier for people to find them by…
Hoping the sim goes down
Waiting for a rollback further back in time ... sigh. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD
Seventh Son - A free podcast novel
Back in December, I created an item that would play a 45 minute long podcast. The podcast was that of 7th Son by J. C. Hutchins. I've started a wiki lately and had been trying to…
Stepping it up
I have often designed buildings on simulators so that an image appears on the map of the region. I am a bit curious as to the maximum height of prims that are renered. I've…
Bigger, Better, Bloghuddier!
I found out tonight that I can now control the width of my pictures that are cross-posted to my blog. BlogHUD is used to process and host my images, all for one low one-time price…
Branco Merlin and Dedric Mauriac
I pose for a photograph with Branco Merlin for him to post to his flickr page. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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Setting the count
I got a message from Gistya Eusebio asking how to set my visitor counter to start at a number of their choosing. They had an old visitor counter that they had to reset, and wanted…
RFL of SL 2008 Royal Bretons
Visiting the Royal Bretons, I found an amazing art studio in the building. Lots of really wild stuff in here. The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this…
Messing things up
Leave it up to me to mess things up. I had setup the vendors for the RFL clothing fair to hand out an item if a certain amount (or higher) was donated towards them. I dropped in…
In the courts of Greece
Meandering around the sims, I found one that was practically empty. A large courtyard was in the middle with palm trees and plants that appered to be pine trees. In the center was…
Drawing in i3D NOW!
I got a message from Anthony Reisman inviting me to beta test a collaboration suite i3dNOW!. I wasn't sure what the product was exactly, but I went along and said sure. I logged…
Town Hall: No Voice, No Repeaters
As I write this, I am hoving in the air with tons of other residents trying to make our way into any of the four sims that host the town halls. The world map shows an outline on…
Back in Slollywood
I was invited back to Slollywood this past week during its reconstruction. Most of the town was torn down and Alice had built everything up from scratch. I was able to pick out a…
Scripting Class
I hold a personal class for DrFran Babcock in regards to link messages. A link message allows a scripts in your objects to communicate. In this case, I was teaching DrFran how to…
Trouble with Money Trees
Argh... money tree toubles again? SarahMarie Paule and zouzoume Andel are telling me that other places have problems too. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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The worst thing about snail races
The stupid sim crossings where you sing into the road and get stuck. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD.com
The OnRez one-prim vendor
After messing around with the multi-panel vendor a bit, I was able to setup a functional one-prim vendor. I even set it up to display the products name and price with floating…
Adapters to push and turn
One of the features I wanted to express was how the pieces fit into each other. The texture on this connector here shows that you can push and then turn the LED part into the…
To camp or not to camp
I still have a bit of a stigma against camping chairs. I don't like the fact that people would just be zombies hanging around my store who never say anything or respond in any…
Mr O Show
Mr O is live talking about virtual worlds. the discussion is in preperation for the upcomming Virtual World SIG (Special Interest Group) www.virtualworldsig.com/ Participants ask…
Black Attack
Put on your formal wear, pirate wear, salsa wear, leather wear, whatever! You could probably get away with wearing a bucket, so long as it is black. Put it on and come on down to…
Postcard from Second Life
I stumbled upon the Mr O Show the other day. Got a group notice and came to listen again. Somehow I became the main guest on the show and demonstrated how my message board worked.…
Wurls's World
An old friend drops by who was a regular at the old Mr. O shows when they were hosted on Bolinas at Acedia's Super Deck. The guy has made a name for himself with a weekly talkshow…
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Reflection
RenderReflection is pretty neat, but pretty low res. You can setup RenderReflectionRes to kick it up a bit, but the higher you go, the less you see. Take this sphere for instance.…
SECONDtunes
Now this is an interesting setup. Rich Desoto has a vendor setup in-world to sell his songs through SECONDtunes. I paid the vendor 250 L$ (about 77 cents) . With that, I got a…
Reffletron
On of the coolest new gadgets out is the Raffletron. This is a networked raffle system that awards prizes monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly. Each ticket is always 10 L$ for…
10,000 L$ Sploder!
Hmm... i wonder how high it will go ... From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD
The Great Snail Race
The great race is about to begin. All I can see are snail eyes all over the place. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD.com
Growing flowers in a new way
A while back, I was starting to upgrade all of my products one at a time. Along with the upgrades came public demonstrations that people could interact with. Somehow I got side…
Large Message Board Ready!
The smaller message board usually goes through without too many problems when upgrading it with new features. The Large message board is another story. The problem lies within the…
Preparation for the first question
I am a contestant tonight for the first question. At the moment, we are all arriving early to get everyone setup before the big show. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Residents in SL
Learning about companies in SL is pretty simple here. You click on a picture and you get a notecard about who's who with the company, and what they do. From Dedric Mauriac via…
Getting things sorted out
I finally got everything sorted out with my data center. I leave the boxes of my products out because they are a bit easier to find in a 3d space rather than in inventory. They'll…
RFL of SL 2008 Group HugRing
Ah, the ring of hugs. Fun, fun fun. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
What is this crap? - game revival!
Crap Mariner revives his old game - what is this crap?Rules are simple: People sit on various objects. Each round consists of a number of questions typed in open chat. If you give…
Get your MegaPrims custom ordered
As the patches go through to disable the creation of megaprims, the Primtings sim is having an event to get your own megaprims custom ordered before it is too late. I got a few…
Pay for unique visitors
Today I tried out a different service to get visitors to come by my shop. Earn2Life charges me10 L$ per visitor that drops by for 1 minute. I can set up a plan to require the…
Another Grid
An art show is about to happen here in Arts Plus in a few hours. It is a French show, but also in English. Something about merging two worlds into one with real life, and second…
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Island Hopping
Two islands separated by ocean. How do you get accross? You walk of course! I held my breath and just started to walk into and under the water. Ok, it may be funny as heck, but…