Archive for November, 2007

Spam

On the side I play world of warcraft. Hey it’s fun being able to hit an enemy with a curse of agony. One thing you notice quickly about world of warcraft is that if you post on the forums, you’re going to get gold sellers spamming you.
Linden Lab unfortunately won’t talk about the inevitable spam […]

Estate land versus mainland

A regular debate on the official forums and elsewhere is the difference between estate land and mainland. The simple fact of the matter is that it’s all leased. None of it is owned and you are allowed to keep up the charade of ownership as long as everyone plays by the rules.
Playing by the rules […]

When Smokey sings, I hear violins

LL really need to roll out Philip Linden more often, the latest blog has a style and grace about it that is so very sadly lacking in most LL communications and if a whingebag like me is impressed, he must be saying plenty right.
I’ll remove the “Scrooge” tag from Uncle Phil for making his staff […]

Linden’s fiddle whilst Banks Burn

Here we go again, banks in meltdown, apparently at least five banks are involved in this sort of a problem right now:
All Bank Activity Halted Until Further Notice
At about 3:50am SLT, I got an IM from Tyrian Camillo of SLIB stating that someone was depositing fraudulent lindens […]

The Search for Spock

I was hoping by now to have a better overview of the new search feature. However the release candidate viewer doesn’t like my machine so my views are mostly based on speculation, which isn’t a fair appraisal of the system and therefore my negativity might well shine through (there’s a surprise!).
The recent Jeska Linden blog […]

Does your heart go boom

I blame Torley Linden. I really do. There I was innocently minding my own business when I read that Torley had upgraded wordpress.
Against my better judgement I decided to upgrade… and that’s where things went tits up. There was talk of a missing table, the database upgraded but this table wasn’t there. So alas it […]

Carnal Lingerie Comes to SL

When it comes to Second Life, RL companies have attempted to make a presence, some have made a go of it and others have been and gone. A new SL business on my island is the UK based Carnal Lingerie. Boasting a range of lingerie from RL designers such as Diane Rubach (London) and Ana […]