Category Archives: ramblings

Happy New Year!!!

I’m sick with the Flu today and not feeling especially articulate, so I’ll just express my best wishes for you all with a picture from one of my favorite websites:

OMGSNOW!!!

First of all, I’d like to wish a very merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc., etc., to everyone.  I hope that the holiday season treats you all as well as you deserve, and that it brings you many happy memories. Secondly, OMG SNOW!!!  It’s been snowing here for about a week straight now, and my area [...]

Don’t let *ANYTHING* stop you from voting

I could probably post a long commentary about how there are active voter suppression efforts under way this year, as there are in every election cycle, and how it allows corrupt politicians to effectively control and shape a process that is supposed to allow us to have a voice in government, but I doubt anyone [...]

McCain/Palin 2012 Debate (Humor)

Okay, one last politics-related bit of humor to fill blog space until I can get back to ‘real’ business : Side note: I mentioned in comments on the previous post that my RL work load might be reduced and my financial situation improved, allowing me to get back to C:SI stuff, and I got some [...]

Quick Tip : Displaying your C:SI sword

I guess it never really occurred to me before, but I’ve recently begun to get a few questions about how to display a C:SI sword; the problem is that if you just rez the sword on the ground, it instantly turns invisible.  This happens because it is assumed that when the sword is rezzed, it [...]

Virtual Worlds for Business – IBM creates OpenSIM Data Center

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 [...]

Progress on the new katana

Time for a post that’s less of a rant, huh?  Okay, well it’s probably a good time to mention a little bit about the progress of the Wave update and the new katana I’m making. Firstly, I have been working for the last few weeks on an update to the Wave Katana, and have gotten [...]

New weapons and Master’s Treasure

I don’t participate in contests and tournaments much anymore, due at least in part to comments made by one well-known fighter after our duel where she said that it was apparent I was using my position as a C:SI developer to cheat (I wasn’t, so that really upset me), but one of the things I [...]

Resolved, but not really – Business As Usual at LL

I can’t even count the number of times that Linden Lab® has announced problems with the Asset Servers (hours after real people notice the problem first) followed by a [RESOLVED] notice.  Today is one of those days, and there have been several other related issues and non-factual [RESOLVED] posts this last week alone. And yet…. [...]