Ciaran Laval

January 12, 2013January 12, 2013

The Way Things Were – The PG Sex Bed

I’ve never been fearful to investigate things that others fear to investigate! The things I do for you lot, I should get a medal or something. Anyway, when I was looking back at the Jack Linden Office Hour recently, I delved into the long distant past (in virtual world terms) of 2008. Back then Driftwood “I have an awful taste in football teams” Miles asked the meeting: has anyone seen the PG Sex Bed doing the rounds?

Well I hadn’t, actually I don’t recall this conversation at all. However it seems that some people do remember this and still have the item. I won’t tell you that Innula Zenovka handed me one …. oh wait! Anyway, I won’t reveal my sources but one has came into my possession via mysterious means….

“You’re reviewing sex beds!” said Inara Pey incredulously when I told her I was going to blog about this, it’s not often you see Inara Pey incredulous! This shows the lengths I go to in order to keep this blog relevant and up to date, by finally catching up with matters that happened over four years ago!

Now, having received said sex bed, I needed to find some talent, you know, to help me test it. However looking around my local tavern wasn’t encouraging:

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January 11, 2013

Destination Guide Gets A Blog Plug

I see that the MetaReality Podcast team have risen from the dead and resumed their show. The word on the street was that they’d all been poisoned and assimilated into Flufee!

Linden Lab have blogged about The Destination Guide, which is good to see. They’ve also fixed a bug with the ad widgets by the looks of it, which is again good to see but my Jira on the issue hasn’t been updated, I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be these days with the new Jira nonsense, however I’ll just have to let that slide.

Destination Guide is a useful tool, although there have been concerns over how well it is maintained, LL tell us that the editorial team receive dozens of new submissions every week for their team to review. What I like about this blog post is that it highlights a variety of things to do and see in Second Life, which is why I believe posts like this should be more regular.

I also love those create ad widgets, I wish we had them for advertising inworld events too and I picked the Dryland ad because that’s a pretty funky picture, yes yes I know, don’t judge a book by a cover.

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January 11, 2013

Adult Rated Sims Continue To Grow

On the 2nd January 2012 Tyche Shepherd informed us that the state of estate land was:

Adult: 2,877 sims
General: 3,141 sims
Moderate: 17,822 sims

Moderate remained king, but Adult sims had increased by 872 during 2011, General had also increased but at a slower rate, 434.

Fast forward roughly twelve months to 6th January 2013 and Tyche informed us that the state of estate land was:

Adult: 3,458
General: 2,302
Moderate: 15,143

Now bearing in mind that we’ve lost around 12% of private estates, adult Sims have stood up well. Some adult sims may be converted moderate sims, so this isn’t an exact science but we can now see that adult sims are firmly in second place when it comes to choice of classification for estate owners, moderate remains King by a long chalk.

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January 9, 2013January 9, 2013

The Way Things Were – The Jack Linden Office Hour

Recently I’ve been tag teamed by the dynamic duo from Tribe Islands, namely Driftwood Miles and Alexxa “I’m not Mrs Driftwood Miles” Despres. I mean there I am innocently browsing my own blog and Drift abuses me about The Villa … this could be self inflicted and then I quietly lurk in my evil drow wizard tavern inworld and Ms Despres accosts me! I was an innocent party in all of this but it did remind me of The Jack Linden office hour.

I’ve blogged before about the lack of office hours, or user groups as they are now known. We used to have a lot more and one of the more popular ones was The Jack Linden Office Hour, some of which can be found on the wiki: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Jack_Linden_Office_Hours. These archives have been preserved by residents.

Basically what happened was you’d arrive and find two dragons strategically placed, most weeks anyway, they would be there. I’d try and stand in a normal spot away from the madding crowd and then Jack would come and talk and sometimes the fireworks would fly! There are plenty of missing archives, the infamous Septmeber 10th 2008 invasion of the Ad Farmers meeting, which saw the clash between Cytherea Eagle and Sarah Nerd in the twinkie – *CENSORED* flashpoint! I have that log but it’s not suitable for the wiki! There’s a link to it via Sarah Nerd’s old blog at your2ndplace, thankfully there via the wayback machine, which you can read here, but be warned, serious swearing! I keep meaning to bring my own old your2ndplace posts over here, but it takes so much time! There were also some strange exchanges in that September 10th meeting, such as:

Resident: jack r u accual a linden

Jack Linden: yes, I’m afraid that I am!

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January 9, 2013January 9, 2013

Lag Storm Bernard Wreaks Havok!

“We’re starting off the new year with a bang” announced Maestro Linden and that certainly seems to have been the case as the unexpected Lag Storm Bernard (named by Loki Eliot) left many a sim creaking in its wake. There was many a warning to: Please refrain from rezzing no copy objects, making inworld L$ transactions and remember to save all builds as the storm caused the Linden firefighters to embark upon a series of rolling restarts to combat the worst case scenarios that were playing out.

Reports were coming in of performance issues, packet loss, problems rezzing, requests for a rollback, and in some cases, outright grumpiness as people, probably without hats and waterproofs, inspected the trail of chaos.

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