Ener Hax has mentioned that I use OpenSim on a USB drive for “real work” and asked me to write a post about this. I will dovetail into Ener’s post last night and frame this with a similar Blender 3D perspective. I have been using Blender 3D since it went open source in 2002. It’s [...]

It has been quite the year and Ener not only has chronicled the move from Second Life to OpenSim with over 500 posts in 2010, but also has built many wonderful field trip locations on our grid. Along the path, Ener has provided some great tips for making a move as easy as possible and [...]

OpenSim land options just keep on coming! i read a post about New Voice on Maria’s Hypergrid Business blog and you can get a full OpenSim region for $9.90 USD a month from New Voice. in OpenSim, a full region typically means 45,000 prims from most providers. i say “typical” because that is an arbitrary [...]

i read a post the other day and found it an interesting use of virtual worlds. i had seen other studies where your brain has a hard time differentiating between the real world and the virtual one study had avatars being hit in the head with a hammer! o_O when you saw your own avatar get whacked [...]

if you do a map search for a sim and then teleport to it, you will land on its terrain surface right in the centre of the sim. if you have a structure there, people will arrive inside the structure and this could have poor consequences. i first learned of this in Second Life, five [...]

there seems to be a “race to the bottom” with OpenSim hosting. some plans will get you a “sim” for $10 USD a month! wow what a price! for some reason, people expect to pay peanuts for sims in OpenSim. yes, i am the first to say OpenSim is far less expensive. in that post the other [...]

when i went to San Fran almost two years ago, i met with two Lindens and had my first ever fish tacos. i toured the lab (but did not meet Torley, bah). the Lab is in about the most prime location imaginable in San Fran. one of the Lindens that took us out (subQ too, he was [...]

poutine rocks and with Labour Day having just passed, summer is winding down. that means the poutine carts will be gone in a month or so (of course, Montreal’s mayor is a dork and outlawed food carts!) poutine carts are a distinctively french canadian summertime thing when i departed Second Life, the iliveisl residents threw [...]

yay! finally, after 4 years in virtual worlds, i get my own home! it’s like that saying about a cobbler’s kids having no shoes. while i have built several home-like places, none were just my home. the iliveisl estate inSL had several social places that were open to the public that were meant to be homes and [...]

it’s funny, but up until today, i never felt like i had my own home in virtual worlds. in Second Life i had bunkers but they were always set as public places too and for the 10 months in Reaction Grid, i also did not feel like any parcel was mine but today i took [...]

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i have gotten a few comments, emails, and tweets wishing us well from people thinking we are no longer in-world what’s the matter with you? can’t you read my mind? lol – i guess i have not actually written a post saying what we are doing, just a few mentions within other posts (with all [...]

moving from Second Life to OpenSim was a HUGE pain. i mean a drag and a half! i was so lost and fully expected the exact same experience. even though i knew it was buggy, i still had the same yardstick (which then smacked me upside the head for a while) plus without much more than my [...]

i like to share information. of course it is from my perspective (i can’t actually see anything from anyone else’s perspective, neither can anyone else) sharing accurate information so that you can make a decision is also important to me. sure, i rant and ramble about some silly things, but when i present information that [...]