today i received four emails from Second Life. even though i have not logged in for many months, in-world messages are forwarded to my email like this You have received a message from Second Life: Your 3 objects have been returned to your inventory lost and found folder the messages showed objects being returned from several [...]

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lol, i’m not sure what this means but it was fun to see us get listed on The Top 10 Blog as one of the day’s top twitter trio and they wrote a nice thing about us: And now, as they say, for something completely different. Tweets about adventures in virtual worlds from Ener Hax [...]

i don’t know what prompted me to do this, but i took some images from here and there to rebuild a map of the second life iliveisl estate in its prime – 19 sims compare that to today’s 6 remaining sims with the top one looking pretty deserted it was a great learning experience and [...]

leaving second life was a huge change for me. from worrying about 60-100 residents, converting Lindens to dollars, and always having stuff to fuss with. i was in-world anywhere from 10 to 30 hours a week on top of a 40+ hour a week job and my blackberry constantly blinked with IMs forwarded from in-world issues “so and so [...]

they say a picture paints a thousand words and if you want to paint that picture with a second life snapshot, you have to read 10,800 words that’s how long the current TOS is and that does not include the 2,500 word XStreetSOL TOS 10,800 words – who says size does not matter? did you [...]

Ener Hax does a great job blogging on the iliveisl blog in my opinion. The term “blog” is only about ten years old yet there are more than 120 million blogs in the world according to Technorati! Certainly a good deal of these are inactive; either never having been used after setup or having been abandoned. Blogs [...]

Online branding is very easy to do, but takes discipline, persistence, and more time than many people think. What is online branding? Awareness of something – that something could be you as an “expert” and an expert does not always mean some self-proclaimed smarter-than-you person. Not at all and that often makes the word branding [...]

tonite Ener Hax no longer has a private estate in Second Life. the last sim is gone out of the 12 sims of the last year, 9 were full sims, 2 were homesteads, and one was a rare openspace the residents stepped up and bought sims and kept it going as a community a testament [...]

(=  hope you get a chance for some warm and fuzzies from in-world =) lots of stuff happening isl for Valentine’s including kissing Lindens (lol, that’s a great deal, we pay them lots of money and still love on them) to be fair, i love the support Linden’s and, of course, Torley!  the support Lindens [...]

another title could have been tar and feather Ener! =p the iliveisl estate is throwing a party for yours truly tonite at the fantastic Saranac House. i say fantastic because it’s owner, Van, is phenomenal at doing events. twice a week for several months now, Van maxes out the sim! we even upped the sim [...]

it’s been overwhelming the support that the iliveisl residents have poured out, thank you  =) and transfers are almost done after 3 years and having as many as 101 occupied parcels, it’s really hard to step away from some of it. 99% of the time was wonderful (that other 1% was drama crap, people trying [...]

you can probably tell that a little soul searching has been going on with the last two blog posts. second life is important to me and that is why i express that in these ramblings. the original purpose of this blog was to promote land sales on our estate, but i hate pushing anything on [...]

this month marks the second anniversary of the iliveisl estate. the first sim, Enerville was delivered in January of 2008. the longest living resident on the estate (hmm, makes it sound like they must be old) is also the very first resident we had, Tommy Tzara. thanks Tommy for sticking around :) no fireworks or [...]