Category Archives: Second Life

Dogbert: Viewer Advocate

Original Strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content License of The Official Dilbert Website terms, from where the above images originated.

Quick SL Achievements web client demo

Since I’ve made some progress on the project, I decided to create this video demonstrating the web client for the SL Achievements API that I’m working on.

How Mainstream Media views Second Life

Generally after an article is published with this view of Second Life (it being a dull hole in the ground with nothing to do), pretty much every savvy Resident points out how wrong they are. Original strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content [...]

Dogbert: Linden Lab CTO

Original strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content License of The Official Dilbert Website terms, from where the above images originated.

Second Life History: key events

So I’m working on the notes for my presentation at SL6B on Second Life’s history- here are the items I’ve got so far: Linden Lab Linden World Linden Dollars Vertex Shading Open Source WindLight Sculpted Prims Voice Chat Mono Tax Revolt First Birthday Event Burning life Teen Second Life Second Birthday Event Third Birthday Event [...]

Catbert: Linden Lab Blogger

Original strip Dilbert characters are by Scott Adams and ©2009, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Mashup created under the Collaborative Content License of The Official Dilbert Website terms, from where the above images originated.

Burning Life 2004 Trailer, saved for future enjoyment

I recently experienced a rather catastrophic had disk failure, resulting in the loss of about 300GB worth of music, video, wallpapers and software archives. Thankfully, all my code is remotely backed up so there wasn’t much of a problem there, and all of my music can be re-ripped. Unfortunately, a video that holds sentimental value [...]

auto-update for groups being held back by WEB-787

It seems that Linden Lab’s recent changes to the layout/design of the search appliance has resulted in a rather annoying bug: periods seem to be stripped out of the group name in the result listings, resulting in a false negative for the portion of UHU5 that handles group2key auto-discovery. Since it doesn’t particularly make sense [...]

region name usage comparison

Further to the issues regarding non-unique region name support in Second Life, I did a bit of research regarding the rather inconsistent implementation of non-unique vs unique region name support in aspects or systems of Second Life that were developed by Linden Lab. List of systems using/supporting modes of region name usage. unique non-unique. the [...]

non-unique region names within the confines of a single grid, yay or nay ?

Personally I’m against it. You generally don’t have (thing) with the same name the same (other thing): street in the same town. town in the same county. county in the same country. country in the same continent. continent in the same planet. planet in the same solar system. domain name in the same network. book [...]

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