In the eternal quest for Domination of the Blogosphere, Around the Grid offers a variety of share buttons at the bottom of each article that will place the piece on some of the many social networks available, from Twitter to Google+, to That Which Shall Not Be Named (but it’s big and blue and people [...]

I’ll be taking a week off from in-world travels while I take the RL kids to their grandmother for a week.  Hopefully, Around the Grid will still have at least one article coming during that time; it’s way past time that I did a few Contact Sheet columns.  In the meantime, make sure you check [...]

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.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many [...]

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 [...]

I hate to say this, but there will be no 2nd Annual Hallowe’en Photo Contest this year, due to a (hopefully) temporary lack of RL liquidity causing a corresponding lack in SL.  I always aim in my photo contests for a minimum of L$6,500 in prizes, but I won’t be able to do that until [...]

I don’t know what’s happened this time, but my less than a year old tower is down. I wonder if bugs are munching on it during the day…? Any road, I won’t be able to take it in to some shop until next Tuesday or Wednesday, so I’ll be scrounging time on the husband’s netbook [...]

I love WordPress.  They give you so many great tools to write your blog with, and then they give you great tools to make it easier for people to leave comments as well. Starting today, you now have four choices for identifying yourself when you leave a comment:  as a guest, with your WordPress ID, [...]

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 [...]

In light of Facebook’s recent increase in deletion of Second Life avatar accounts, I’ve taken the precaution of putting up a page connected to this blog.  All my readers are welcome to go to it and click the Like button.  Though I will say that I’m rather ambivalent about the whole thing.  Facebook is always [...]