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I would just like to say that I am very unhappy with the decision to raise the height of ban lines within SL to two hundred metres, speaking as somebody who used to live on the mainland, attempt to plot balloon courses around the mainland and who is thus familiar with the number of people who just decide to set ban lines around their property for no good reason, which you cannot see in practice until you run into them, but which at least you could easily evade by flying a dozen or two metres upwards.

This does not serve to compensate those feeling the strain of increased Assault caused by Ano

As a minor thing of note, readers interested in the Science of Automatic Vehicles might also be interested in visiting the Third Year Anniversary Celebrations, as detailed on the Second Life Wiki. The monorail that you may travel upon there works upon a similar system to the Caledon Tram, which is not terribly surprising, as I scripted it. The actual car itself was not by me, but by Merle Widget, and the fabulous monorail stations and track are by Lethe Naumova.

Recent viewers of the Tram Status Page will have noticed that it has grown a map, indicating where the tram is, rather than than there simply being a SLurl link.

I mentioned in my very late post yesterday that I had introduced a "tram ping" system. This is indeed the case, and I will now say a few more words on the subject.

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Mr Dominic Webb has been working on a different sort of power distribution system, vaguely related to my own, and was kind enough to give me a demonstration.

I thought that I might experiment, yesterday, with the recording of video in SL, and thus I did so.

I have no other tool to record with apart from the built-in "save to movie" option, which I find is somewhat lacking. Whilst it will record, unless the window is set to an extremely small size, for me at least the results are unusably jerky or fuzzy. What is more, it does not record sound. But it does work, at least.

I am not given to excessive complaint...

...well, that is not entirely true. I frequently am moved to complain about almost anything, but I find that rarely does it make any difference in practice, thus usually confine myself to bitter sarcasm in conversations between myself and associates. Really, any reader thinking that I complain at times here about the physics engine should hear me in Second Life itself.

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Hello and welcome to my new Journalling Environment! At the moment, it is a fairly basic affair, but I assure you, dear reader, that its sophistication and appearance will both improve in the coming weeks.

That now over and done with I would like to write on the matter of my latest project. I have been motivated by three things:

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The Caledon Tram is now complete. Well, it is at least running, trundling the streets of Caledon, Caledon II and Port Caledon and occasionally stopping and tinging a little bell for folk to jump onto it. It is also operating, it seems, reliably, which is really rather important for public transport and something that I wish would be more appreciated by Transport Ministries in the Other World.

It has taken me some time to script this device, which perhaps it should not have, given its relative simplicity.