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September 2006

Friday scripting humour, explosions and blimps

30Sep2006

I'm sure that any person of sufficient powers of concentration to be willing to hack through the thick, obscuring undergrowth of verbiage that makes up my Journal in the faint hope that, in sufficient time, they will clear aside one last creeper to find King Solomon's Mine revealed (or more likely a deserted quarry and a small squalid shop selling badly-painted souvenirs) has had the experience of becoming so engrossed in some project or other in Second Life that they completely forget to perform some vital task, such as - for the gentlemen - trimming one's moustache before meeting one's frien

A post from the Grid

27Sep2006

Well. The SLurlblogger seems to be relatively operational now. All I have to do is write up the damned documentation on how to set it up to post to Typepad, Wordpress, Blogger and all of those nonsense things.

Individual notes can be taken and appear as paragraphs, as you see, and the display of SLurls can be turned off if need be.

I have also set it up so that it is more menu-driven, which is clearly a useful thing and makes the business of configuration considerably easier.

Mice and their hats

27Sep2006

Caledon 253,37,36 - Just for Chance Takashi

Caledon 253,37,36 - mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats,

Caledon 253,37,36 - mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing hats, oh so pretty, mice wearing ha

A post from the Grid #2

27Sep2006

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Caledon II 105,121,38 - and on

Caledon II 105,121,38 - and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and o

A post from the Grid #1

27Sep2006

Caledon 116,52,40 - I'll delete all of these later.

Caledon 116,52,40 - Right now, I want to test a really long post, so this one will be full of rubbish.

Caledon 116,52,40 - Blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah de blah

Caledon 1

A post from the Grid #2

27Sep2006

Caledon 108,53,42 - Please ignore any of these peculiar messages that you see on this Journal.

Caledon 81,79,40 - This is me testing further enhancements to the SLurlblogger.

Being Beside the Sea

26Sep2006

As a final element of the rebuilding project that has been taking place on my Caledon property recently, I have been Doing My Bit for the Safety of the Island.

Sea Defences on Vimeo

Some Brief and Current Affairs

23Sep2006

I am compelled by general sloth to offer up a few morsels from around what I have learnt has been termed the "SLogosphere". The previous sentence is the first and last I will ever write containing that appalling word, unless it is to further express my distaste.

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    p>The ever-perspicacious Gwynneth Llewelyn provides us with another excellent piece, on the different divisions within Second Life. Immersionist or augmentationist?

    • Pseudomagnetism

    21Sep2006

    Recently I decided to entirely replace my existing shop with what I consider to be a much more aesthetically pleasing, and spacious, building; the shop floor is a now a broad, high-ceilinged, iron-framed gallery. Clearly I had to retain the breakable windows, and clearly I had to retain a balloon deck from which visitors might board the Touring Dirigible. (Even considering its antiquity, the Dirigible is still very popular.

    The Gun Balloon, in case you had not seen it

    16Sep2006

    I did mean to put up a video of this previously, only, well, I didn't. By the way, when it says "cover one's ears" it is advisable to do so.

    I am afraid that the musical accompaniment really is rather obvious.