I’ve been so busy this morning chasing down every bit of info on programming a Go game (inspired by Colin’s Goban announcement) that I only now am discovering perhaps the biggest SL™ news item of the week : Philip Rosedale is stepping down as Linden Lab’s CEO. As to title, I will become chairman of [...]
It almost makes me wonder why we haven’t seen something like this before in Second Life®. Another view on Gizmodo. Too funny
I’m not going to have much time in-world today and possibly tomorrow, as I’ve just accepted a high-priority rush-job project that needs to be finished by end of business tomorrow. This will limit the amount of time I can spend in-world or doing offline customer support, or addressing interesting topics like Colin’s question about listener [...]
It’s a bit of old news now (in Internet time, at least), but not long ago there was quite a bit of buzz in the Second Life® blogosphere about a new program called Second Inventory, whose stated purpose is to allow a Second Life® user to create a local backup of their Second Life® inventory [...]
After writing yesterday’s post on the death of Gary Gygax, I was immensely cheered and entertained by today’s xkcd comic : Some people may not get it, but I found it truly hilarious.
Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax passed from our world yesterday, and while initially I had no intention of posting about it, I find that it keeps coming into my mind repeatedly. I am saddened by this news, more than I would ever have thought, and I am not at all sure I understand why. [...]
[8:42] Zero Linden: klaxons in the monkey house
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 [...]
If you haven’t heard of the online comic XKCD (and you love geek humor), then you really should check it out! If you need a little idea of why I think it’s so good before you go clicking blind links, lemme just post a couple of examples that I thought were funny (and that would [...]