What's going on?

So - you might well wonder - what's going on with the Tat?

Well, for starters, there's all the writing I've been doing over at SL Insider. Not always very successfully, but I'm working on improving. Particularly interviewing - that's a whole lot harder than it looks. Asking a whole bunch of questions that other people thought up, and then slapping the log down isn't exactly the acme of style. Still ... getting better. Maybe in a couple hundred years or so, I'll graduate to adequate.

There's also the New World Numbers monthly column at New World Notes. They're fun to do, particularly because the article I end up with is never the one I actually sat down to write. I realise and connect a lot of stuff along the way, and after a few drafts, it's really quite a different journey to the one I'd anticipated. And I always thought poking around among piles of numbers was a bit dull. Go figure.

I'm doing some other work - stuff I'm not going to talk about. Confidentiality and all that. No, it's nothing exciting or mysterious. If only it involved dinner with Wil Wheaton or something. Yeah, if only. I'd settle for Judith Lucy, though. I'm just saying.

Add to that a dose of self-discovery. Self-discovery sucks, incidentally. You almost never find out anything nice. Just a list of things that need to be done or fixed. This post is one of those. Oh, the cartoon above? Nothing to do with that self-discovery stuff.

Also a lot of overall life-changes. Soon as I figure out what those even are, I'll say something. Unless it violates someone's privacy, in which case I won't.

Yeah, so there. We're all pretty much done here today. Hope you and yours are well.

Graph tweaks

The sidebar graphs have been adjusted so that they'll keep on generating, without attention, even if I step under a bus.

Graphs

I've added some current graphs down the sidebar of my blog. I'll try to make sure those are kept current.

Comic - The Houseplant

The famous Steamtree appears courtesy of the kindness and creative genius of Harle Armistice. Definitely worth your while to go take a look.

New World Numbers 3

New World Numbers 3 is online at New World Notes.

Concurrency - pretty pictures

There's been a bit of talk about concurrency figures over the last few days, so here's an informative graph, for the last 14 days. Click for the larger version.

Comic - The Mega-Gadget

Slimming

I sat down and did the first purge of my friends list since I started SL. I don't have an accurate count of how many people I removed. Hundreds. A few hundred.

Some are people I haven't seen in a long time. Some are people I don't have a lot in common with, or just haven't been in touch with. Some of you - nothing personal. The list was just too damn large to find anyone in.

Why? More demands on my time, and a weariness with more than a share of being taken for-granted. Just because you got removed from the list doesn't mean you did. Conversely, if you're one of the few still there, it doesn't mean you haven't.

That might sound a little arbitrary - and in some cases it most certainly is - but life's complicated.

More complicated than you know.

The other Tateru Nino

On the Internet everyone knows you're a dog.
This charming pup, owned by Showdog Tiger is named Tateru Nino. I think it's possible that she's even more of a bitch than I am :)

Baby photos are so cute - when there's no actual human babies involved.

Want more?

Can't get enough? I'm now blogging at SL Insider as well as here.

Because, hey...it's not like I was busy enough already, right?

Light, Lighter, Lightest and Heavy, Heavier and Heaviest

The whale is (light/heavy).
The balloon is (light/heavy).

Ever do something that you think will be a relief, take the weight off, and make your heart lighter - and then you find that instead it weighs you down, and is distracting.

Ever have that happen?

Comic - Undocumented Functions

Brought to you from the bright and twisted imagination of Neural Blankes. It certainly made me laugh :)