A short note before I head off for RL work.  Many of you know that a Crowdfunder campaign has been set up for KirstenLee Cinquetti to give her the wherewithal to keep working on Kirstens Viewer 1. Crowdfunder is the site that allows you to contribute toward goals for financing projects, of course; the best [...]

Sad news comes to me via Plurk:  KirstenLee Cinquetti has chosen to pull the plug on her development of Kirstens Viewer, a long-time third-party alternative to the official Linden viewer for Second Life.  In her article announcing her choice at her blog, KirstenLee cites personal RL needs — Dawny (her partner, I believe) has had [...]

Mercy, today seems to be a big day for news.  New World Notes reports that the lovely animated globe map Hamlet Au saw while visiting Linden Lab’s offices back in June, a map that reports concurrency of users, is being worked on for availability to Residents.  Rod Humble mentioned this to Daniel Voyager, according to [...]

For those who have downloaded the latest update to LL’s Viewer 2, you’ll notice a change straight off.  Instead of the traditional photograph, rotating from view to view with each sign on, we are now given a menu of pictures, destinations and events to examine in a browser when we click on them. Do you [...]

A fresh issue hath arisen on the Grid, and it doesn’t have anything to do with gambling, or banking (read:  gambling), or policy decisions by Linden Lab. Or maybe it does have something to do with policy.  For the issue centers around the new Version 2 official viewer, which was formally made gamma a week [...]

For those who say Linden Lab doesn’t listen or respond to the comments and critiques of its one major product, I hope you’ll reconsider your statements.  The Lab kicked out an update on the 15th to the Viewer 2 beta, with some needed fixes and other tweaks, and promise more in the weeks to come. [...]

After making sure that the new beta for Viewer 2 installed into a different directory than the main viewer, I finally gave it a spin over the past two days.  It’s proved interesting — not perfect, and to say it’s an improvement is subjective to how you feel about the layout changes.  But it’s a [...]

Lil Linden reported on the Big Blog yesterday that there would be an emergency rolling server update,  starting last night.  Apparently some bug had crept into the code, and carried the potential of crashing a sim. I wonder if that was what was happening to me yesterday.  I landed in my house to try out [...]

Second Effects wrote yesterday of a concern that I’ve heard of before on occasion:  the retention rate of new users, so that they become old users like you and me.  I’ve no reason to doubt their horrendous calculation of 1%, aside from it maybe being hearsay; but no matter the true retention figure, it truly [...]

I’ve been quite satisfied to date with Windows XP — yes, I know, your mileage may vary — and have not yet had a reason to go out and buy a copy of Windows 7.  (Thank all benign powers, I have never experienced Vista!)  It’s been a temptation, though, just for the sake of being [...]