Tag: SL Buzz

Floating Physics?

January 25, 2008 · 64 views · 0 comments

So here we are playing with physics on Havok4 Beta Server 1.18.6.78103 and I'm finding that these prims are hovering over top of each other. They seem to wobble every now and then…

SL Buzz Floating Physics Playing Havok4

The greenly green Antonius Misfit

January 25, 2008 · 58 views · 0 comments

Antonius Misfit dropped by in a really green super hero kind of outfit. He dropped by to look around and noticed the store had moved a bit. Antonius had dropped by before to look…

SL Buzz Greenly Antonius Misfit P

Lots of new things

January 23, 2008 · 38 views · 0 comments

I found many things happened today, or at least recently. Logging into Second Life, I found that a new windlight viewer was available. I forgot about my postcard floater changes…

SL Buzz Lots Things P Found

A quick survey for 20L$

January 23, 2008 · 57 views · 1 comments

After seeing a post to Earn Linden Dollars with Cube Surveys by Kabalyero, I decided to check out the location for myself. I took the survey called "Eco-Car Attitude…

SL Buzz Quick Survey 20l P

Grey Party

January 23, 2008 · 154 views · 0 comments

So everyone had to come and see Keiko Takamura live at sailors cove. Rumors are that MTV is here along with CSPAN. Interesting to see so many people. Posted by Second Life…

SL Buzz Grey Party Keiko Takamura

Havok4 is back!

January 23, 2008 · 40 views · 0 comments

Crap Mariner takes video footage while Stuart Warf puts 640 prims together in a single spot and turns them physical to expload. Fun Stuffs to witness. Posted by Second Life…

SL Buzz Havok4 Back Crap Mariner

Broken money tree?

January 23, 2008 · 44 views · 0 comments

Surfer Jonson showed up and told me he couldn't get any money from the tree. I checked his account information and saw that he should get the money without a problem. It looks…

SL Buzz Broken Money Tree P

OnRez 100 Item Limit

January 23, 2008 · 73 views · 0 comments

Killashandra Falta dropped on by to ask about the new OnRez vendors. Surprisingly, she had the same exact butterfly pants as Bertha Lohner who dropped by earlier tonight. I showed…

SL Buzz Onrez Item Limit P

Glow problems?

January 22, 2008 · 40 views · 0 comments

I start playing with glow effects a bit more with the windlight client and found a bug in my vaccume tube. I can't believe I can actually admit to my real life friends that I…

SL Buzz Glow Problems P Start

Playing with Vacuum Tubes

January 22, 2008 · 276 views · 0 comments

Crap asked for some ideas to make his clocktower more oddly. One of my suggestions was vaccume tubes. He found some freebie lights on SL Exchange and started playing around. I…

SL Buzz Playing Vacuum Tubes P

Playing with the new HUD

January 22, 2008 · 73 views · 0 comments

Crap Mariner gave me a copy of the new hud to play with his clockwork tower. I wonder if he came up with a name for it yet. He took some of my advice and madeit easier to…

SL Buzz Playing P Crap Mariner

Where are the people?

January 22, 2008 · 96 views · 0 comments

I'm not sure what to do these days. Is the money tree really helping to bring new people to my island? I am doubting it. The number of people dropping by has pretty much…

SL Buzz People P Days Money

Hopping over protected land.

January 20, 2008 · 91 views · 1 comments

Jos Yohkoh contacted me with a problem with his teleporter. Apparently it could make it in one direction towards his home, but not back to its original location. Upon arriving, we…

SL Buzz Hopping Protected Land P

Havok 4 ... not!

January 19, 2008 · 37 views · 0 comments

I logged in this morning and saw my Woodbridge sim was Havok 4. Got a message saying it was going down for maintenance in a few minutes. Came back and saw that the sim was…

SL Buzz Havok P Logged Morning

OnRez offers eight panel vendors in limited beta

January 19, 2008 · 90 views · 0 comments

Jade Lilly told me that they were working on an 8 panel display when I saw him at SLCC 2007. I kept my eye out on the onrez products for a while and essentially lost interest. I…

SL Buzz Onrez Offers Panel Vendors

NASA - Creating informational and virtual space for knowledge sharing

January 17, 2008 · 227 views · 0 comments

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,…

SL Buzz Nasa Creating Informational Space

ELLiebob Bean drops by

January 17, 2008 · 30 views · 0 comments

Elliebob drops by to take a look around. Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit Woodbridge .

SL Buzz Elliebob Bean Drops Woodbridge

Showing Elliebob bean my Blueness

January 17, 2008 · 18 views · 0 comments

Well, I'm definately into the color blue. Very technical looking and clean. Looks great against the purple sky too. I wonder how I can improve it. Posted by Second Life Resident…

SL Buzz Showing Elliebob Bean Blueness

Elliebob Bean playing with glow

January 17, 2008 · 20 views · 0 comments

Showing glow off to Elliebob with windlight Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit Woodbridge .

SL Buzz Elliebob Bean Playing Glow

Following the money trail

January 15, 2008 · 96 views · 0 comments

I found the location of where all of the sales have been happening. I ended up in Red Windsor at Cerebral Labs Weaponry & Gadgets. This place is huge and has a ton of quality…

SL Buzz Money Trail P Found

Gummy Bears

January 15, 2008 · 158 views · 0 comments

I was listing my falling leaves on SL Shopper when I noticed an ad for Gummy Bears. It looked pretty interesting and I had to check it out for myself. I arrived at Curious Kitties…

SL Buzz Gummy Bears P Listing

Avatar Interestingness

January 14, 2008 · 220 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Interestingness Cracks Tp Spad

A castle far off in the clouds

January 14, 2008 · 95 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Castle Clouds Downloaded Ton

Try It!

January 13, 2008 · 21 views · 0 comments

Along with setting up all of my products for people to see, I'm setting them up so that they can be interacted with as well. Most products that I sell only allow the owner to…

SL Buzz Setting Products People Interacted

Dandelion Clocks

January 13, 2008 · 168 views · 0 comments

I had forgotten about these dandelion clocks that I had made a while back. I'm trying to go through each item in my inventory to make sure each one has a good description, image,…

SL Buzz Dandelion Clocks Forgotten Made

Domus R/C

January 13, 2008 · 126 views · 0 comments

Kyra Mulligan invited me to rent a shop over at Metropolis Mall. I started to look around the place in the hope that I would find some gadget shops. Most stores are full of…

SL Buzz Domus R C Kyra

Pixies, Dragon Flies, Ducks and More

January 13, 2008 · 368 views · 0 comments

Well, this is an amazing sight to see. I looked up the creator of the swans at the last place that I saw and came over to Animania. To my surprise, it was rite next door to…

SL Buzz Pixies Dragon Flies Ducks

Dear Santa

January 13, 2008 · 31 views · 1 comments

For Christmas, I would like to be able to teleport without worrying where my hair and shoes will end up when I arrive. I would also like it for the other 364.242199 days in the…

SL Buzz Dear Santa Christmas Teleport

Out-dated information

January 13, 2008 · 67 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Outdated Information Found Sign

Broken telehub of memories long past

January 13, 2008 · 210 views · 0 comments

This is getting rediculous. Walking every few feet, I am finding other things that no longer work. The telehub here has a bord of free linden content. I used to be able to touch…

SL Buzz Broken Telehub Memories Long

More broken games at the welcome area

January 13, 2008 · 88 views · 0 comments

These games inside the welcome area in waterhead used to work. Both Prim Attack and Mahjong just don't response. Mahjong appears to have buttons work, but the game never shows the…

SL Buzz Broken Games Area Inside

Great places of tech

January 13, 2008 · 324 views · 0 comments

There are plenty of gadget shops on the grid. However, sometimes there is a shop that really stands out. Raver Designs stands out with its large showroom floor. Most times that I…

SL Buzz Great Places Tech Plenty

Vouchers galore

January 12, 2008 · 155 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Vouchers Galore Resist Temptation

Falling away

January 11, 2008 · 118 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Falling End Negative Cordinates

All organized and ready to go

January 11, 2008 · 108 views · 0 comments

Half the time I'm spending in second life lately is just reorganizing my inventory. All of my products are boxed up and laying out in-world in order to show up on the search…

SL Buzz Organized Ready Half Time

A terminal of my very own for SLX

January 10, 2008 · 96 views · 0 comments

My WiseOwl Blessed mentioned that she discovered how to use SLX terminals. It was about time that I start putting in requests to get these put in ... (ok real life, some fire…

SL Buzz Terminal Slx Wiseowl Blessed

Who was here?

January 10, 2008 · 41 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Landowner Eventually Request Korii

SignpostMarv Martin provides inspiration

January 10, 2008 · 99 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Signpostmarv Martin Inspiration Problems

Saving Snapshot Emails

January 9, 2008 · 48 views · 0 comments

Many of us who post snapshots often continue to post to the same email addresses for the recipients email. Some of us even have a long string of multiple email addresses that we…

SL Buzz Saving Emails Post Snapshots

testing flickr@slbuzz.com

January 9, 2008 · 29 views · 0 comments

oh if only this cross posting thing would work ... Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit Chamcook .

SL Buzz Testing Flickrslbuzz Cross Posting

SLCN.tv gets a new look

January 8, 2008 · 141 views · 0 comments

Starr Sonic sent me a new package for the SLCN.tv television. There are two kinds bor both a wall-mount and a free standing television. I like the new version because residents…

SL Buzz Slcn Tv Starr Sonic

34 Lucky Chairs and still unlucky

January 7, 2008 · 130 views · 0 comments

Sometimes people setup lucky chairs to get more people comming through shops and to introduce them to products that they would otherwise not had purchased. I arrived at Fantasy…

SL Buzz Lucky Chairs Unlucky People

The new blue view

January 7, 2008 · 103 views · 0 comments

A lot has changed in the past few weeks. I think I've finally got a basic layout setup. Each building is fairly simple to get around. Items are still being spread out to be easier…

SL Buzz View Lot Changed Past

The old and the new

January 7, 2008 · 209 views · 0 comments

My mother in-law is in second life and has her own spot on the island halfway up the hill. Her cottage is pretty cozy and is near my wifes home on top of the mountain. Most of…

SL Buzz Mother Inlaw Spot Island

Bombing away with bad jokes

January 7, 2008 · 194 views · 2 comments

Jane2 McMahon and Rocky Torok suffer our bad jokes. Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit BlaksleeWorld .

SL Buzz Bombing Bad Jokes Jane2mcmahon

Bombing Run

January 7, 2008 · 718 views · 0 comments

Crap Mariner takes Liz Pinazzo and myself for a balloon ride. It all started with Crap flying around and commenting on one of my new buildings. I jumped on and we chatted for a…

SL Buzz Bombing Run Crap Mariner

Avatar Accessible Design

January 6, 2008 · 603 views · 2 comments

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…

SL Buzz Accessible Design Buildings Redesign

Torley finds the strangest things

January 6, 2008 · 870 views · 0 comments

Torley is always finding little things in the client menu that truley expose your second life for the virtual reality it is. Most of the time, I live in SL as if it were a real…

SL Buzz Torley Finds Strangest Things

Woodbridge needs ... woods

January 6, 2008 · 130 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Woodbridge Woods Hadrezzed Trees

A new look for modern nature

January 6, 2008 · 790 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Modern Nature Sim Woodbridge

Showing off the Grist Mill

January 6, 2008 · 138 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Showing Grist Mill Drfran

A list of chatbots in second life

January 5, 2008 · 175 views · 0 comments

I was looking at some of the links comming into my blog and found a page full of chat bots in second life . Both Eliza and Brain Experiment #2 were listed for me. Marus Endicott…

SL Buzz List Chatbots Links Comming

Text 2 Bytes - Round 2

January 5, 2008 · 120 views · 0 comments

I had posted my text 2 bytes conversion methods to its own page on the LSL Wiki . Strife Onizuka had a look at my original methods and suggested that I used some of the LSL…

SL Buzz Text Bytes Round Posted

oh, wow honor to meet you.

January 5, 2008 · 94 views · 0 comments

Every now and then, someone finds me in world and is just shocked to be in my presense. I don't feel as if I deserve to be on such a high pedistol. It's not as if most strangers…

SL Buzz Wow Honor Meet Finds

Everything leads to the moon eventually

January 4, 2008 · 67 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Leads Moon Eventually Josh

Dunking Booth Support

January 4, 2008 · 437 views · 0 comments

The one product that causes me the most time with support is the Dunking Booth. It isn't the booth itself, but one of the vendors that causes the problems. Anything that deals…

SL Buzz Dunking Booth Support Product

A happy cog

January 3, 2008 · 58 views · 0 comments

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.…

SL Buzz Happy Cog Friendly Neighbor

I'm Busier Than You

January 3, 2008 · 109 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Busier Hrefhttp Podcasting Isfullofcrap

The Opposite of a Suicide Note

January 3, 2008 · 57 views · 3 comments

I was in an inteview with Crap Mariner before the new year. He had a project going on where he was asking everyone what he ment to us. It is a podcast episode that is over five…

SL Buzz Opposite Suicide Note Inteview

The path to encryption

January 3, 2008 · 235 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Path Encryption Methods Data

Fireworkds Show

January 2, 2008 · 82 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Fireworkds Show Hrefhttp Isfullofcrap

Encryption Anxiety

January 1, 2008 · 390 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Encryption Anxiety Setup Reports

Central Grid

January 1, 2008 · 33 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Central Grid Gobi Greenwood

Simple Encryption in Second Life

January 1, 2008 · 347 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Simple Encryption Working Methods

A real chess clock

January 1, 2008 · 108 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Real Chess Clock Past

Charting from within SL

December 31, 2007 · 97 views · 5 comments

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…

SL Buzz Charting Charts Comming Great

Happy New Year

December 31, 2007 · 72 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Happy Year Passed Purchased

Odd world in a virtual world

December 31, 2007 · 54 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Odd World Hrefhttp Drfranbabcock

Flying high spying my land

December 30, 2007 · 119 views · 0 comments

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 Buzz Flying High Spying Land

THiNC books are great for Power Point Presentations

December 29, 2007 · 123 views · 1 comments

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…

SL Buzz Thinc Books Great Power

Blue Hair Episode 15 Available

December 29, 2007 · 57 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Hair Episode Hrefhttp Www

The Anti-Camping Chair

December 29, 2007 · 117 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Anticamping Chair Talking Camping

Blue Hair Episode 15 - Tracking Visitors

December 29, 2007 · 66 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Hair Episode Tracking Visitors

Modeling clothing textures with sculpties

December 29, 2007 · 271 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Hair Episode Tracking Visitors

Finding the day of the week

December 29, 2007 · 64 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Finding Day Week Date

Graphic Reporting within Second Life

December 28, 2007 · 159 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Reporting Working Creating Bar

Kumi Kuhr Christmas Party

December 28, 2007 · 86 views · 0 comments

ELLiebob Bean rang me for help with one of my products. It seems she too has fallen suspect to my christmas bug. I created a christmas gift that you drop items into and the person…

SL Buzz Kumi Kuhr Christmas Party

XML-RPC and HTTP Requests

December 28, 2007 · 56 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Xmlrpc Http Requests Sworn

Asking the questions myself

December 27, 2007 · 128 views · 0 comments

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…

SL Buzz Questions Preparation Weekends Live

Ready for the face shot

December 27, 2007 · 254 views · 0 comments

So this is me without all the troubles of the ground to lag me down. This profile shot is probably a more reasonable one for Lord Fly's 1000 avatar pictures project . I feel like…

SL Buzz Ready Face Shot Troubles

Ready for my close-up

December 27, 2007 · 114 views · 0 comments

Lord Fly is calling out to residents for help getting snapshots of 1000 avatars closeup . In his words, (or should I say Waynes World words), â€œEXTREEEEME CLOOOSSSEEEE UP!!!!â€?.…

SL Buzz Ready Closeup Lord Fly