The Voices in My Head

Article here.

Wheelies, and by extension, Second Ability, has been mentioned by Newsweek magazine. This is a major media coup, and I am extremely happy to report this. Things are looking up.

So on saturday there was a pseudo-secret party for LL’s FIC, better known as anyone who puts down enough money each month to pay for a private island or half a mainland sim (assuming LL’s billing division can figure out how to charge your account of course). (more…)

So it seems that several big corporations are running away from SL, if you believe Time, Forbes, and some Californian broadsheet which I will likely never read. It’s curious how the papers that are predicting doom and gloom are so far removed from the lives (both second and real) of the average SLifer. (more…)

According to the latest blog post from Linden Lab, several residents reported a general slow-down in server performance shortly after the new version was released yesterday. I would be grateful if some kind sould could tell me how these residents reported these issues and received a response so fast, because I have yet to get a support ticket responded to in less than 3 days, let alone less than 12 hours, judging by the timestamps on their blog.

Over on the Linden Lab blog, they have finally made a public posting about a certain legal case.

While I probably have the details wrong somewhere, rumour and hearsay being what it is, as I understand it from those sources I have been able to find, Bragg (a lawyer in real life and representing himself in this case) discovered a method of locating the web address of auctions for servers before LL had formally opened the auctions.
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