By what I’m figuring from my statistics, I passed 100,000 visits either Thursday or Friday.  That is good performance by this blog over over 4 1/4 years, and I thank everyone who’s stopped by to check me out, or to stay and read for a while.  I hope you’ll keep coming back.

Yeah, it’s a hard life as a writer.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, a blog is always hungry for the next article; if you don’t keep it fed, it goes stale, and worse (shudder) — it gets ignored by readers. That isn’t allowed to happen, except during the odd vacation, holiday [...]

I recently passed the four-year mark in writing this blog, and I’m still going at it.  That’s a gratifying thing, considering that the last blog I wrote, focusing on RL, I lost interest in after three years, and shut it down a few months after the fourth anniversary.  Here in Second Life, I still find [...]

This new trick is available in the latest beta of Firestorm as well as a dev of the Linden viewer. Gidge links in her article to the original by evie, and then pleads for something also very useful — designers (at least some of them) using a single abbreviation “convention” when naming their items…. ===== [...]

Around the Grid has been publishing for 3 1/2 years now, and I’ve accumulated a ton of links that I had in my blogroll.  However, considering the ease of fall out and fall in to Second Life, I suspected today that a lot of those links were either changed, or just plain dead.  So you [...]

Yes, there is another Harper in Second Life. Before you go running screaming into the night, you may rest assured that Harper Beresford is nothing like me (for which there are probably many in the virtual world who are giving much thanks).  In fact, there are a few other Harpers back and forth on the [...]

Some late news: Best of Second Life magazine has announced their nominees for the 2011 BOSL Awards at their blog.  There’s a lot of great talent in the 21 categories, such as Bax Coen in Best Shoe Designer; Di Hoorenbeek in Best Poses; and Skip Staheli and Strawberry Singh, both up for Best Photographer.  Take [...]

WARNING:  Some statistical navel-gazing ahead!! (Though not as much as in the past) Around the Grid with Harper turned three years old on November 20 and has had over 75,000 visits during that time — over 78,000 as of this writing!  This is far better than I ever dreamed it would be back in 2007, [...]

Some of my favorite blog articles are based around poetry or song lyrics. I’ve done a few of these myself — indeed, I’ve composed at least one poem explicitly for a recent photo shoot. This kind of artistic synthesis — not to mention perhaps a synergy — is popular with several SL fashion blog writers. [...]

Writing from Destin, Fla.: Since I’m on vacation, and away from my regular ol’ standby, the Black Tower of Birmingham, I haven’t been able to go around Second Life and do my usual photography or scrounging for subjects.  So I’m catching up a little on the blogs in my blogroll.  (A very long blogroll, it [...]