Archive for July, 2008

The answer to translation difficulties

So there I was on Sunday trying to understand a couple of Spanish residents, one of whom was a new renter. Altavista babelfish really wasn’t cutting the mustard. So she of the Kryptonite boots offered to help, Quaintly Turqiri has a friend who can speak Spanish!
Hooray I said. This however soon turned to chaos and […]

What’s it worth?

Land in Second Life is always a contentious area. When Jack crashed island prices a lot of people were quick to point out that it’s merely hosting space, binary numbers on computer hardware, it’s not real land. They’re right, it’s not real land, it is hosting space, binary numbers are involved but there’s more to […]

Before everyone gets carried away

There appears to have been an outbreak of wild optimism regarding Mitch Kapor’s keynote speech and the announcement that avatars managed to teleport from the Second Life word to open sim as announced on the official blog. Can we all get real please!
We’re a million miles from the 3D interweb. We’re a million miles from […]

Sometimes it’s all worth it

One of my tenants awarded me this, sometimes it really is all worth it.