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'…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…