Communication

Updated: versions of the TwitterBox are now available for public consumption - see the main TwitterBox page, or subsequent journal entries.

I mentioned in my last entry the subject of using HTTP Basic Authentication in LSL. (For those of you not familiar, this is a simple and not very secure method of restricting access to a web page via a username and password.)

A tip of the hat to the respected journalist Mr Hamlet Au, who has had considerably more success than I in eliciting a response from Channel Four Radio, whom I believe I mentioned earlier. I must say that Mr Au's full piece is well worth reading, highlighting as it does the regrettable tendency of our men and women of business to slip into a most peculiar automatic argot when confronted with a question for which they appear to lack understanding, answers or interest.

Caledon 85,46,26 - Version 0.4 of the Slurlblogger is now available! As previously demonstrated by mice with hats, this version will now post directly to a blog as well as to email, and is notecard-configurable.

Caledon 87,47,26 - I have tested it with Blogger and Wordpress (on my own server), however, if anyone could confirm the stuff in the instruction card about other hosts and systems, that would be good. Typepad testing would be useful too.

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.

Caledon 95,29,29 - Well, this is a post from my back patio...

Caledon 146,78,73 - and this is one from just beside Mr Gould's rock

Caledon 191,188,23 - and this is from the Caledon telehub - I'm bored now, post this already!

As soon as I had made my entry regarding Slurlblogging, I noticed a post on Second Life Insider mentioning BlogHUD - an attractive device allowing wearers to post slurled posts to a central blog.