That’s a question I’m sure I’ll never understand the answer to, but it’s also one that comes to my mind frequently. Specifically, I don’t understand why people attempt to cheat at C:SI combat. There have been quite a number of people who’ve done so, and most of the time it’s the most naive, blatantly obvious, [...]
[8:42] Zero Linden: klaxons in the monkey house
I’ve mentioned many times on this blog that I’m a huge fan of the idea of gathering usage statistics, and I do my best to display them in a way that makes sense for others. I recently read an article on Coding Horror that reinforced my belief that gathering actual "real-world" usage statistics is invaluable. [...]
Hamlet Au (formerly Hamlet Linden) of New World Notes has written a book about the early days of Second Life®, and how it all came to be. There are lots of anecdotes and stories, and the blurbs I’ve seen on the blog are actually fairly fun and interesting. It would seem that he’s been working [...]
Recently I was trying to figure out a way to automatically publish a summary of the preceding week’s C:SI statistics to this blog, similar to how some of the other Second Life® blogs publish traffic or signup or economic statistics, and being a WordPress user I thought it made sense to use XMLRPC and the [...]
I read the Game Politics blog, which this morning featured an absolutely awesome video about Jack Thompson that I just *HAD* to share If you don’t know who Jack Thompson is, you can think of him a bit like the Prokofy Neva of the legal world. He’s such a deluded, self-righteous, crazy, busybody pain in [...]
Virtual World News had an article a couple of days ago on IBM’s announcement that they had built a 3D data center simulation using OpenSim, which I found particularly fascinating because I have long believed that the potential of Virtual Worlds like Second Life® and OpenSimulator was far larger and with potential for much broader [...]
I’ve been INSANELY busy these last two days, and haven’t been able to make it in-world for any substantial amount of time, so tonight I thought I’d slow down a little and take a peek at my Google Analytics numbers for this site while I was eating dinner. Google Analytics is freaking awesome if you [...]
It’s been on my mind for quite some time to revisit the topic, but I was recently reminded of my interest in third-party training tools for the C:SI system when Aimee brought a new one to my attention in a comment to the Jump Slash Difficulties post. She mentioned one that I’d not yet heard [...]
There has been a change to the plans for The Final Stand 3v3 Tournament. Malachi sent me a notecard containing these additional details (new start date) provided below : Dear reader, You’re invited to attend The Final Stand 3v3 C:SI Tournament @ Samurai Edo. In addition to this notecard, for the next two weeks all [...]