i was going to write a post about a Canadian Government manager who went on a $40,000 spending spree including $4,000 in Second Life! apart from being deeply ashamed (not really) of a fellow Canadian about this appalling fraudulent activity i was curious as to what she spent her Lindens on, but the article did not [...]

Warning:  I dare to revisit here an old subject that people have many opinions on.   What is the ONE thing that drives you crazy about Second Life or Open Sim? The one “bug” that really lessens your enjoyment or satisfaction of virtual worlds? I’m tempted to say “Viewer 2+” from Linden Lab. But as [...]

maybe Linden Lab is like Donald Trump and has “a great relationship with the blacks“. but it sure does not seem that’s the case with the new Join page that Rod Humble was excited about last week with The Refreshed and Fun Registration Experience i know i am overly sensitive to almost everything and tend [...]

from 19 Second Life sims to two (technically 20, the 20th was live a few days for conversions) and one of those still keeps its original name Enercity Weston! =) i hope it is still the same people, they were big into helping n00bs and in promoting music concerts (one of them was quite the fine [...]

i constantly see people saying that LL should lower setup fees and monthly tiers. it is easy to sit back and say that OpenSim does do it for less and it can. we pay less than $2,000 USD per year for our mini grid. it is 16 sims but keep in mind that this is not the [...]

as a follow up to yesterday’s post of surprising customer attention from left field and a few comments on it – i thought i’d elaborate and ponder with you about what, if anything, can be done to win back some of us my assumption on the reinstatement of Ener Hax is that some database query [...]

i suppose i am ever the optimist in my own french canadian cynical kind of way. i truly believe people are good and that others tend to do right by each other. admittedly, it is sometimes a naive view but i would rather assume the best than otherwise everyone reading this knows that i sent gobs [...]

it’s been a year since i traded Lindens and it was something i did on a daily basis. when you collect an average of 30,000 L per day you simply have to trade daily as part of your business (sigh, the time i wasted on my old Blackberry logging in and doing the LindeX thing, [...]

i recently read a few different blog posts regarding what Linden Lab “should” do for success. posts by people that truly care about the future of Second Life, like Dusan Writer, Tateru Nino, Botgirl Questi, and Neil Canham my world view of virtual worlds was shaped from 4 years in Second Life and running an [...]

maybe i am a pervert – but the association of “sex” and “second life” is not a far stretch in my mind. any online venue where people can communicate lends itself to having some sex element to it and Second Life is certainly no exception but born-again virgins? wow, that is a virtual concept for sure! [...]

it’s been 9 full months since i was in Second Life and i was sad to read that the Weather Channel’s estate was gone. it may have poofed before i did, the last few months i was inSL were consumed with settling the estate and getting it sold to residents the Weather Channel island was [...]

well not suprising with all the new virtual world buzz . . . the media is picking up a tiny amount in covering the new browser-based worlds, like KataSpace as well as OpenSim in general couple that with bad press on educational institutions and not-for-profits being forced out – it’s never good press to see some company doubling the [...]

if you make enough predictions, some will come true and you’ll be the next Nostradamus. otherwise, predictions are sure fire ways to be wrong it’s fun thinking about the future and arguably something that makes us the smartest species on Earth (tell that to a dolphin next time you are stuck in traffic on the [...]