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…
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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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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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 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 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…
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…
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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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…