Farewell to forums.secondlife.com

I’ve spent many hours – many thousands of hours – logged in to the vBulletin forum at forums.secondlife.com.  It’s closing sometime tomorrow.

I’m sure that whatever replaces it won’t feel the same.   It’s over a tenth of my life that I’ve been logging in to SL and forums.secondlife.com.  It might be kind of silly, but it hurts to see it go.

Me and the big guy

This video is quite nice. Watch it. Big Brother commands it.

BiDi Screen from MIT Media Lab (Bidirectional Screen)

I love seeing advancements in controller technology. Shortly before seeing this video I’d made a post in friendfeed asking about grids of lens. This grid of light sensors is loosely related to what I was thinking of when I asked that question.

Last day of the Second Life Mentor group

Today is scheduled to be the last day of the Second Life Linden Lab operated volunteer groups, the Second Life Mentor group, Second Life Mentor Q&A, and the Instructor group.

I’ve been in the Mentor group for years.  It’s kind of sad to see the groups go.

I’ve had a lot of fun explaining how to get a box off your head and telling people that they need to update their video drivers or perhaps downdate their video drivers and other such things.

There’s a new plan in place for Linden Lab to interface with resident run help groups.  There’s a bit about it at this blog post: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/volunteers/rhn_guidelines/blog/2009/11/23/join-the-resident-help-network .

Best wishes to my fellow soon to ex official SL volunteers and to the staff who’ve dealt with us over the years.

A Virtual Conversation Overheard

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage – Roots – Ancestors

The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

A video for virtual world people by The Guild.

Tarsha – Second Life (Music Video)

Blue LInden posted a link to this video in Facebook. It’s not precisely my cup of tea but it mentions Second Life so I’m reposting it.

DLP® Interactive ProjectorTechnology…Coming to a Classroom Near You

This looks quite neat to me. I’d like to see what use it could be put to with virtual worlds and other 3D interactive applications.

Second Life Answers crashes my brower

I am sick and tired of trying to use the Second Life Answers site.  Sometimes it fails with a “Connection interrupted” message, other times it fails by crashing the browser.  It’s crashed my browser several times tonight.

Second Life Answers crashes browsers

It appears that LL is going to increase the amount of secondlife.com that uses the Jive software that produces this failure.  The various forms of failure that have happened to me and others at Second Life Answers are also occurring in the new dasheboard pages located at secondlife.com/my/account/

I am not pleased.