Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

Speedier IMs

I fixed a bug. Now sending in-world IMs, adding someone to the friends list, and sending email from profiles should be snappier.

Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

Skiing in the nude

Well that was not exactly what I had hoped for. So I’m on the Weather Island, which looks great. Extreme skiing sounds like fun, so I bought my set of utilities (boots, skiis and poles). I ski in RL so maybe this will be fun.

On top of the hill I run into Dharma Austin, who told me that she just gave it a whirl and found it quite hard actually.

So I’m trying to put on the skiis but it’s not going so well. I used the inventory filter “Skis”, which gave me the skis but at the time I didn’t know that boots and poles were part of the package. Once I had it figured out, I thought that to wear all of it, I just drag and drop the folder with the stuff onto my avatar. But that’s not how it works. Instead, it took away all my clothing, etc.

Last thing I saw was:

[15:52] You: doh
[15:52] Dharma Austin: you freak!

Before I could explain anything she teleported away…

Not my day, is it?

Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

My Rezdate

It is hard to believe a year has passed already. It’s been a lot of fun, and it’s great to see Second Life grow and evolve. For as fun as 2006 was, I’m looking forward to an even more interesting 2007.

Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

whee!

i’m posting this from my Wii which arrived just today.

Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

List of simulators is back up

Big thanks to Torley Linden for pointing out that the SLStats Region Browser was down. Luckily this was a very short lived problem.

It looks like Linden Lab made some very minor changes to the Second Life web site, but enough to break the script SLStats uses to grab the list of simulators. A small adjustment and we’re back in business. Second Life currently has 6353 Simulators. Amazing growth.

Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

New Podcast: The Prim Beat

Check out Jane Calvert’s new podcast, The Prim Beat!

Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

“Just testing”

Why is everybody’s first blog entry always something about testing?

Blogging from the site directly

Someone brought to my attention that it might be desirable to be able to post blog entries from the slbuzz.com web site directly. Makes sense, of course, and so that’s what I’m working on. Should be ready to go in a few minutes.

The question now is just how crossposting should be handled in this case. I’ll have to mull over that for a bit. Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,
Mark

Posted by Second Life resident Mark Barrett.

Messaging and Contacts

I added messaging and the notion of contacts to to SLBuzz. You add anyone you want to your contact list, at some point I’ll probably add some access levels like Friend of Family or something like that. Hey, if it’s good enough for flickr, it’s good enough for slbuzz, right?
Another small update or three, and then it’s time for a refactoring cycle again. Or in plain english: rather than adding features, i’ll improve the stuff behind the scenes and fix bugs without introducing new end-user (that’s you) functionality.

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