July 28th, 2006 – 11:00pm
How those bugs snuck into the recent SL client
Overheard in the Office
Engineer #1: What the hell were you thinking when you wrote this code?
Engineer #2: Boobs.
Engineer #1: Huh?!
Engineer #2: Truthfully, it’s likely I was thinking about boobs.
Following on from part one, here are some more ego searches, including finishing off Hamlet’s searches:
Hamlet (continued)
Wagner James Au on SecondLife.com, total of 12035 points, highest of 5333 points on Google.com
Wagner James Au on Hamlet Linden’s blog, total of 13615 points, highest of 6196 points on Google.com
Wagner James Au on His/Hamlet Au’s blog, total of [...]
I have a tendancy to ramble on endlessly about topics nobody cares about, so I thought it’d be a good idea to check with someone first.
My Observations
Compare the position of SecondLife.com in the “normal” search results
and the accesible search results when searching for “second life” on Google:
“Normal” Search
SecondLife.com is the first result
The teen grid site [...]
July 21st, 2006 – 11:45pm
Running around the internet via the StumbleUpon extension for Firefox, I came across this service called “ego Surf“.
Looks to be one of those Search 2.0 things where it does some script-fu to see how big your ego is. I of course ran some searches (not bothering with .co.uk stuffages) on some Second Life related peoples:
Philip
Philip [...]
Found via Torley Linden.
Robin Linden
Physical Avatar
what is it?
- in world poser
- expressive puppeteering
- explicit world coordinate system representation
- allows for physics/rag doll physics; uses spring physics. compensate for too much springiness with added constraints to create a pseudo-rigid body
- largely viewer side with packet system allowing for server to control ordering
Does this mean that Hit [...]