I have a child?

On Saturday I had a divorce party over at Edloe. Now I thought i figured out what was going to happen that night. I was however a little wrong in that thought. Hope and Keeme presented this video…

After the video played, Keeme brought out “SLPN Jr.”. I am still not sure what to make of it but, it was funny and all that stuff. Go watch the video and the latest episode of RezzedNecks if you haven’t already.

SLim Pickings

I just downloaded the new SLim Second Life client released by Linden Lab. So far I like what it does but theres a few things that I don’t like about it…

Pros

• I like that I can contact friends in IM or be IMed by people when I am not logged in without using a webapp or other third party programs.
• Voice is enabled

Cons

• You need to download a first look client to be able to download your friends list.
• If you want to IM someone in the SLim client, they need to have the actual SLim beta.
• Unable to chat in public chat like you can with AjaxLife or similar programs.

/me understands that this is a beta and hopes it will be better. I’m sure as time progresses more functionality will be added to the SLim client. But so far I am enjoying it even if one person on my friends list only has the SLim client right now.

If theres one feature that needs to be added, I want a little popup that says X X is online at the bottom right side of the screen like some other applications do.

Remember, It’s only a Server

Last week the Lindens announced that they were going to be introducing a new land store system which promises almost instant delivery of sims. With this a price drop was announced for the purchasing of Estate simulators.

When the new Land Store launches, setup fees will be:

* Normal Islands: USD$1000 setup
* Normal Openspaces: USD$250 setup
* Educational Islands: USD$700 setup
* Educational Openspaces: USD$175 setup

For some reason people started to interperet this as being a move against the OpenSim project or that the Lindens are having poor sales.

But if you take a logical approach to it. You will realise that it really isn’t the case. The fact is that technology gets cheaper and cheaper. Take an iPod for example. As more features and storage is added, the prices drops. This is the way that the tech industry moves and it obviously ripples into Second Life.

But wait, what about OpenSim?

Well… I am pretty sure that just last week, it was announced that OpenSim and Linden Lab are working together to integrate OpenSim servers into Second Life.

How is that going to work?

I think that they will probably have a message that pops up every time you enter the area of an OpenSim based server like, “This is a third-party server and Linden Lab is not responsible for what may happen”.

Personally I am excited about the prospect of having third-party servers in Second Life as this will lead to even cheaper server options for people. Of course all the backing up is down to the third-party or you instead of Second Life, hence the cheaper aspect. After all part of the cost for sims is that you need to pay the maintainence fees, backup charges, bandwidth etc.

As stability slowly comes to Second Life…so does some really exciting stuff that I just love the idea of.

My Days..are numbered

Recently on The Podmafia Podcast me and Gomem spoke about the fear of one day going in to Second Life and getting a message saying our machine is not good enough. Today I got the new Windlight on my laptop and, well this message appeared .

Its funny, my system requirements are largely higher than the minimum system requirements. I am sort of afraid for my Second Life now, but I think I’ll have to stick with the non - windlight viewer now because one day, and that day may never come… I may be unable to log on to Second Life on this laptop. Sure I expect cruddy performance, it is after all a laptop. But I don’t expect to be locked out of SL, I got this laptop so I could be in Second Life at nights and party away with friends in SL.

Inaugural Podmafia Podcast Listening Party

Yesterday was the first ever Podmafia Podcast listening party over at Los Arboles. In case you don’t listen to the podcast (and why wouldn’t you be?) We are now being aired every Tuesday at 3PM SLT on the fantastic KONA radio which is an In-World radio station.

Sitting on the Spotlight

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SLCN Televisions

If you haven’t already picked up one of the SLCN TV’s, I think you should grab one. I have one in my home at Nowhereville. It is brilliant, I can be watching one channel like ShoppingSL with Yxes and then I may be in the mood and press the Sports button and within about 10 seconds I can be watch SLascar racing. If you look around the continent there are various TV’s hanging around. One of them is at Los Arboles, which i was watching while I was waiting for the Podmafia Podcast listening party.

Also SL video seems to be a lot more reliable now in Second Life. Last Year if you played a video the whole client would grind to a halt and practically die. Now it seems to be more reliable and doesn’t really impact the performance.

Woodstock Day #1 - Before Party

People were already waiting for the event 30 minutes (although it was definitely longer than that…i waited 30 minutes)…So to keep us sort of entertained we had DJ Doubledown Tandino. Very nice to have some form of backup to keep things flowing if any stream issues happen (which happened…stay tuned for the next blog entry) and also helps to keep things going during the transition from one artist to another.

Was i high when taking this picture? When i first saw all the grey particles flowing, i started thinking…wait is this a griefer (that was first instinct because they were grey). But instead it turned out to be a mass of weed flowing down

Thats our DJ Doubledown Tandino !

There were some issues with the first act…the stream was having issues, but Doubledown kept kicking out some tunes. Also Gomem made an appearance Live from some abandoned place that I cannot remember (it was late….real late for me, and i have to do it again tonight yippee)

But when it all was said and done, we get our first act….

To Be Continued….(nice some dramatics in a blog entry)

Woodstock Day #1 - Preparations

Before we all could start partying. Everyone was going through the final stages of preparations. Checking everything was in order and working, such as the all important streams.

Yipes! its a Stripes event at Cubo

The party has only just begun. Another fantastic Bucket part-ay

Crap d’Skunk

Crap is a skunk at this weeks Bucket party!
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