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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'…
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…
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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)…
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.…
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…
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…
5000 byte test
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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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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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…
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…
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…
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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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…