Archive for August, 2007

Ley Wrangler @ home in Mystical Kingdom

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

It may sound weird – especially to my many fellow lindens in Second Life. But it took me almost 10 months to get my own place in the virtual world (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Mystical%20Kingdom/30/121/27).

Ley Wrangler at home
Mr. myself in front of the ‘Casa Wrangler’ on the beautiful Mystical Island.

It’s not difficult, it’s not expensive, it sure isn’t hard to come by… it’s just the blog editor who is soooo dern slow.

I rented a spacy and very attractive beach house with nice ocean view at the small island – Mystical Island (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Mystical%20Kingdom/128/128/29). Though almost all the houses here are rented out to happy lindens it’s a very quiet spot with beautiful surroundings and an ambient audio background of birdsong and insects buzzin’ – L$ 400 a week (€1.09 or US$1.4) – it’s a bargain (hopefully the landlord doesn’t read this).

What I actually need it for I don’t yet know. But first of all it’s nice to have a place to practice building skills and playing with linden scripts. I already managed to get some light out of the lampposts and candles (with help of course).

Now all I need is guests :-)

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How SL-graphics might improve

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Just wanted to show you, what I hope awaits us all regarding to hardware performance and further SL development.

Robbie Dingo has pushed it to the edge in his blog ‘My Digital Double‘. Be impressed :-)

Thanks Rob *thumbs up*

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SL-grid offline for 6 hour massive maintenance

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I love Second Life… No need to deny it. I do!

But I’m becoming a little agitated by the fact that my favorite time of the week is wednesday night. Hours between 7pm and 11pm (That’ll be 10am – 2pm Linden time) are great.

BECAUSE… It also appears to be the Linden-Lab-favorite-day-and-hours-for-updates :-(

Today I was actually pleased with the timing. Grid was going to be off from 8-10am they wrote in the Second Life Blog – perfect! Dinner hours in Denmark. When I’m ready the grid will be up and running…. or so I thought!

Now it’s just past 2pm (linden time). Grid has been off for more than 6 hours and the delay has passed it’s 4th hour, and I spent an evening waiting forever – and now it’s bedtime. No business tonight!

100 comments on the blog’s post about the update caused LL (Linden Lab) to close off the comments feature. I wonder why they do this? It’s usually considered bad style in the blogosphere to shut ppl up.

At the end of the day I hope LL is aware of this major flaw of closing the grid for a 1/4 of a day. More and more business will depend on being online in SL. And by closing it like this business gets hurt. Imagine NYSE or NASDAQ close for 2-6 every two week during opening hours???…

Well, maybe that’s blown out of proportions *lol*

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Auction raised £229 for cancer research

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I was actually trying to do some research for something totally different, when I was IM’ed (Instant Message) by one of my very best friends in Second Life.

Mystra Gide asked me to participate in an charity auction for cancer research (AICR – Association for International Cancer Research), and I immidiately hurdled off to ‘Scotland‘, where the auction were held.

AICR Auction in Scotland
Lindens gather in ‘Scotland’ to raise money for cancer research. (Mystra is in pink to the right)

The auction started just when I arrived. A beautiful female avatar called Ladyc073 was placed on a podium, and had I not heard the introduction to the auction by the host, Kristopher Tenk, I might have mistaken it for something else.

The female av started dancing and then the mere 50 avatars started yelling bids at a big board just behind the podium. With in a few seconds the bids passed L$3000. 3 minutes later she was “sold” to a guy in the crowd, that actually appeared to be her own boyfriend. It was then I got the point.

The highest bidder won a date with the dancing person on the podium. A really good and different way to meet new people in Second Life – and for a very noble course. Only the highest bid was collected and went to the AICR.

AICR Auction in Scotland
A guy gets a new friend in the audience as he dances to raise money for cancer research

Somewhere between 10 or 15 avatars were up dancing – males and females. Also Mystra went up there and then the crowd went nuts. I think she went for L$20000.

The more moderate (don’t call me cheap) among the crowd settled for a 6000 bid on a scottish lass… and won :-)

All in all Kristopher Tenk and the AICR collected L$131.739 (£229) from the auction in just a few hours. Personally I think that’s pretty cool. I wonder how much more Kris, AICR and others can make from the open-minded lindens in the future.

I will follow up on this. Meanwhile I recommend you all to pay the AICR-shop a visit. (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scotland/216/204/36)

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How high are you in SL?

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Sorry for not writing that much lately. Summer and vacations keeps getting in the way. Rotten life, huh :-)

I just mowed around like I usually do – not searching for anything in particular. I slumber alot so I can’t even tell you how I ended up in Bleerslaw (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bleerslaw/186/96/37). It’s a rather quiet corner in SL, where some nice shops and a rocking looking club is more or less what gives.

But outside one of the shops I saw a little curiosity. A tall red box standing up against the shop wall.

How high is Ley?
(Me checking out how tall I am in SL)

A measuring device to figure out your avatars height. I haven’t thought about it really before, since I kinda adjusted my height by comparing myself to other avatars. But the factual result surprised me a bit.

By a right-click on the device and then ‘Touch’ it imidiately answered 1.86 meters (6ft 2). Well… And I thought I was accurately dimensioned in Second Life?!? Now I’m almost embarresed to admit, at the RL me only reaches as far as 1.78 meters – including my shoes and Manchester United cap.

Yes, laugh if you must :-) But come by yourself to see how tall you actually are.

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