Second Life's Fourth Anniversary

Second Life's Fourth Anniversary comes up on Saturday 23 June, 2007. Now, I organised the last one, and I've got a fair appreciation of the amount of work involved. This one will be more work.

If you want to organise the fourth anniversary, you should start thinking about it now. And say something so that people know you're the go-to girl - if you don't publicise the heck out of it way in advance, nobody will know, you might end up working cross-purposes with someone else, and the whole thing will flop.

If I don't hear that anyone's doing something about it by the end of January, I'll think about doing it myself again, but don't count on that, okay? And don't forget to tell Linden Lab what you've got planned. They need a lot of advance notice for anything you'll be asking for them to do or contribute. Email Torley. You want some advice? Ask.

New Year's Eve (first pass)

Being on this side of the dateline, I've got the jump, and I can have my New Year's Eve celebrations tonight (starting now, in fact) and then have them again tomorrow with the majority of my friends - assuming I'm able to sit for long enough (my back is still being a problem)

Here's our current best friend. It was a gift. It's cousin (an identical bottle) is on standby. Another gift.

Here's to you and yours. I'll raise a drink for you. And one for them. And one for us.

And maybe a couple more.

Cover girl

Second Life Business Magazine has done a feature on me and slapped my blushing face on the cover.

Charts again

A new link has appeared above the blogroll on the right. Second Life Charts. In it you'll find a quick, at-a-glance view of graphs of assorted Second Life statistics. Three of the charts update once every day, one four times each hour, and the last one every minute.

It's not a pretty page, but it gives you a good view of how the numbers are moving.

Something wrong

Something is not right in my lower back. It happened suddenly almost three hours ago. I cannot sit for more than a few minutes at a time, and the pain depresses my blood pressure, which causes me to go into shock and cardiac arrest. Oh, this is so much fun.

I've got total sympathy for the sort-of superhero Lower-Back-Pain Man, and the original Doctor Smith.

This is so hard right now, but it's early. It's feeling much improved over the last couple of hours (at the outset, I just lay on the floor turning blue). With care, hopefully I'll be able to go back to functioning relatively normally.

White Christmas

Well, it should have been sweltering hot. Christmas happens in Summer here, and in a particularly hot part of summer, but climate trends increasingly peculiar over the last decade.

Here's a photo from the back-yard at about 2 in the afternoon on Christmas Day. That's ice on the ground. Hail. In Melbourne terms, it's quite sizeable hail (though by the standards of my home town, it's still quite tiny).

It was cold enough that some nearby regions reported snow. This, on what is traditionally one of our hottest days of the year (often in excess of 105F for those of you who count in Fahrenheit).

Concurrency graph tweaks

The concurrency graph, low down on the sidebar, will be updated every quarter of an hour, by dark technological voodoo.

Comic - Day Trip - Part 2

Additional credit - We shot this comic in the sim Pro Racer. Much of what you see in the strip is the work of the Mental Mentors. It was lovely to have such a strong urban/surrealist dichotomy to work with.

Comic - Day Trip - Part 1

Check back tomorrow for the conclusion.

Coming up next

I've been working with SignpostMarv Martin on a new comic. The shooting's been done, and it's just being finalised. It's big enough, compared to the usual ones, that I'll be posting it in two parts, over two days. Expect part one soon.

Comic - Rough Neighbourhood

Happy holidays, everyone.

A bit at a time

Well, just when I was starting to wonder if my agency's completely forgotten me, along come three rush jobs all at once.

"Absolutely, we have a full build and test environment on the test network, just like the one the customer has. You should be able to test everything there, really quickly."

Hmm. Apparently this is a batteries-not-included sort of a deal. Some assembly required.

From molecules.

This is turning out to be more time-consuming than I was expecting.

Someone hand me a bag of boron atoms, and some germanium. I'm going to need a lot of that stuff.

Where?

Where would I like to be right now? London. Shockwave Plasma, Coal Nelson, Spiderkitten, Kaoru, Nene. I bet even JayJay would crawl into town.

I could be drunk, upside-down under a table at a Deathline concert on the 13th. How good would that be?