Ad-Hoc vs Application Process: pre-emptive analysis for SL6B

This document was written prior to changes enacted by Linden Lab, and prior to my stepping down from an organisational role within SL5B. Do note that SL4B was planned 5 months before the launch, SL5B was planned 3 days before the end of SL5B, and though at the current time I am unsure as to [...]

blog-fu solution to alert request feature and semantic world.secondlife.com replacement

The past several weeks I’ve been unable to get in-world, so I’ve been making little if no progress on the alert request service. I have however been able to work on the semantic world.secondlife.com replacement. One of the topics that came up in my rants, conversations & internal dialogue was how the notes feature is [...]

Postponing updates to generated images

Over the weekend I discovered that the Linden Lab webmap API is giving out rather odd results- it’s showing the same region existing in a couple hundred different places at once, which is of course a technical impossibility. Because of this, the Linden Lab webmap API can be considered unreliable and unfortunately since I’m using [...]

one idea after another

Hair Plug Hair Plug is an idea I’ve had to establish an open standard for dynamic, potentially “living” hair. The idea came to me after thinking it would be nice to have facial hair for my avatar that grows to remind me to shave more often :-P llRequestMoney() An LSL function that does the opposite [...]

Things that are broken about Second Life and how Marv would fix them

I’ve been a long-time Resident of Second Life- I recently celebrated my 2nd Rezday. Throughout these two years, I’ve experienced almost all Second Life has to offer and bar inventory loss, all of it’s problems. Some of the problems with Second Life really, really bug the crap out of me; the ones I know how [...]