Author: Ciaran Laval

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SL8B Officially Opens June 20th

I’ve had a busy couple of weeks work wise and inworld I’ve been helping a very good friend with her exhibit for SL8B, as well as talking to someone else whom I’ve chatted to for quite a number of years at office hours about his exhibit for SL8B. I’ll be looking to reveal a sneak peek about the first of these over the weekend, although I don’t want to give too much away, the press people will I believe be getting sneak peeks of all of it this weekend, I could poke one of them for information but I think I’ll just wait and see about the other exhibits.

I’m torn between wanting to blog about these exhibits and feeling it’s unfair to jump the gun, although both people have said I can blog, I did say to one of them that I will blog once the event is officially opened, although if anyone else blogs about it, I may jump the gun! SL8B will officially open on Monday June 20th, with a speech from Rodvik, asking what the hell Randy Lerner is playing at appointing Alex McLeish as Villa manager ….. oh wait, that’s my speech!

SL8B is one heck of a milestone for Second Life and Linden Lab, the theme being the magic of Second Life, as explained on the official blog. There is also a blog dedicated just to SL8B itself, which you can read here. There are some sneak peeks there too.

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Amanda Has Left The Building?

The word on the street is that Amanda has left the building, rather oddly I’d seen people suggesting Amanda had left and thought they were getting confused, but it looks as if there is no confusion and Linden Lab look to be past employers of one of Mark Kingdon’s appointments. Amanda had previously worked for Organic, as of course had Mark Kingdon.

Amanda wasn’t without her faults, but who isn’t, however she did seem keen to get on with things, which is a trait in her that I admired. The surprising thing about Amanda’s apparent departure is that recently at the adult user group meeting she had been telling us that Blondin would be replaced but she’d be chairing the meeting until such time as a replacement for Blondin was appointed.

Amanda Linden

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It Works Fine For Me!

At work, there’s always a groan when one of the team reports a problem to me and I tell them “It’s working fine for me“, there’s a groan because for a start they know I’m not dismissing the complaint but more importantly, because it’s not a helpful answer.

There have been a couple of posts over at New World Notes where issues have been identified but people seem to want to blame the user, in some cases it is an issue for the user, but just because something works fine for you or I, doesn’t mean there isn’t an issue with the service.

The first post was from Chestnut Rau regarding a visit to Inworldz, and with the specs Chestnut has, it is odd that she experienced such poor performance.  The second post was from Hamlet, regarding visiting a popular sim, again, with the specs Hamlet has you wouldn’t expect such poor performance, even if he is using wireless. I can connect to SL with my Mac downstairs on a wireless connection.

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Another Fine Mesh They’re Getting Us Into

I’m afraid I’m going to have to depart from the general love in on the mesh upload requirements, as revealed here by Tateru Nino. I’m not a fan of how this is being presented, nor am I a fan of the implications of it. The proposed requirements are listed on the official Second Life Wiki, under Mesh Upload Enablement.

This isn’t all bad, there will be a tutorial for starters which is long overdue. However the PIOF requirement I’m not fan of because we still have this absurd situation in Second Life where I can’t just have one account and multiple alts. This is an absurd requirement to receive a flag, my NPIOF alts can go to adult land because I submitted a support ticket, I didn’t have to get them PIOF status and I didn’t have to get them age verified. This whole individual account business is a nonsense.

Beyond that, there are people who can’t, for whatever reason, buy Linden dollars from Linden Lab, they use third party exchanges such as Virwox. The folk who buy from third party exchanges do put money into Second Life and do contribute to the overall economy, why should they be discriminated against?

Another issue of course is that it goes against the ethos of user creation to limit it in a fashion such as this, although it should be noted that at one time Second Life required people provide credit card details to engage, this was also a time when there were a lot less users.

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