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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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From OSGrid to the Main Grid
In my adventures on OpenSIM (as Instant Blue) on OSgrid
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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,…
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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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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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,…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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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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…
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 Group HugRing
Ah, the ring of hugs. Fun, fun fun. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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…
Virtual MeetingBlue Top HatLecternMarketing SignInformation Board
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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.…
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…
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…
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…
RFL of SL 2008
Check this out! From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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…
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 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 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 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 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…
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…
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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 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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…