Four days ago, on the 29th of November, Linden Labs released the new version of Second Life to the world, version 1.13.
That version has turned out to be every bit as much “bad luck” as its version number would suggest.
Now, before we go into the litany of woes the Grid has experienced since then, I [...]
Well, I’m guessing that the 1.12.1 release will go down in history as one of the more memorable fusterclucks* of Second Life. Not to fault the Lindens too badly; SL is one of the most complex pieces of ‘ware you’ll ever work with, and as a professional software engineer myself, I know it’s all [...]
Everybody knows what happened five years ago today.
For my part, I was still in bed when I got the news. I had just been laid off the previous Thursday, and we had just brought home our second cat the day before. Pamela woke me up to deliver the news and turn on CNN [...]
So I spend a bunch of time preparing a country-flavored set for Soulmates’ “Boots’n’Chaps” event tonight, even soliciting Pamela’s advice as to what bands would be good here…I include songs from Poco, Arc Angels, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Johnny Cash, Shania Twain, a remix of Faith Hill…
And what happens?
Midway through the 8th song of my [...]
Inspired by some stuff I just read over in the forums…
If you come into SL expecting to find a “game”…you’re likely to be disappointed. As a “game,” SL is relatively poor-performing; it can’t be as speedy as a typical MMORPG, the system architecture forbids it. Yet that’s also what makes it so flexible.
If [...]
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