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.
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.
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.
5th Annual BACK TO THE 50s WEEKEND!
Relay for Life of Second Life Multi-Team Event
June 10th-12th, 2011
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THANK YOU TO OUR SIM SPONSOR: RUN AROUND SUE’S!!!
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Thank you to Drive In sponsor Nexxus and Carnival Sponsor Lil’ Sugar Shack!
Get out those poodle skirts, bobby socks and saddle shoes or the leather jackets, cuffed jeans and don those ducktails, we’re headed back to the 50’s! It’s time for the 5th Annual Back to the 50’s Weekend for Relay for Life! It’s all happening June 10th, 11th and 12th, 2011.
The weekend begins with a Sock Hop and a Skating Party with some of SL’s excellent DJs. on June 10th, from 6-8 PM.
Saturday will see festivities all day long. The carnival opens at 9 am. Carnival rides, game booths, the mechanical bull (with a FABULOUS grand prize); kissing booth; Dunk Tank; carnival clowns and watch out for the Police who will be slamming all hooligans straight in the slammer. Send out a warrant and have them arrested Yep,they’ll have to bail their way out. The Classic Car Contest returns on Friday night, where you can vote over and over again for your favorites. Be sure and visit the Labyrinth, too.. who knows the fun twists and turns that could take? Saturday will end with another Sock Hop and Skating Party.
Be sure and shop our town shoppes and look for the special things selling especially for RFL, by some our RFL teams!
The fun continues all day Sunday, the 12th and ends with skating party at 6pm or a double feature at the drive-in movie theater from 6-9pm SLT.
It’s a jam-packed oldie, but goodie weekend.. and it’s all for Relay for Life!
Be There or Be Square!
Schedule of Team Events
Friday, June 10, 2011
Sock Hop
6pm-8pm SLT
Team: RFL Harmony of Hope
with DJ Mordred Lectar
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Sock Hop
6pm-8pm
Team: Relay for Hope
with DJ bball Braveheart
Skating Party
6-8pm SLT
Team: Breeders Hope for Cure
with DJ Ronson Drucker
Dunk Tank
10am-3pm SLT
Team: Circle of Life
Dunk Tank
3pm-8pm SLT
Team: Dominion RFL of SL
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Dunk Tank
10am-5pm SLT
Shayla Juran spins the 50’s
Live at the carnival
2pm-4pm
Skating Party
6-8pm SLT
Team: Heros for Life
with DJ NightWalker Galaxy
Sunday Night at the Drive-In
6pm-9pm SLT
Team: Passionate Redheads
Movies: Blue Hawaii & Viva Las Vegas
Events Covering All Three Days
Kissing Booth
Team: Marga-Relay-Ville Team
Raffle
Team: Aether Chrononauts
Classic Car Contest & Raffle
Team: Radicals for Life
Town Shoppes
Children’s Light
Remembering Our Friends Memorial Angels
Friends Fighting Cancer
Dandelions-N-Mudpuddles
Rays of Hope
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.
