Uh oh. This is really bad. The planned outage for Wednesday October 31 (WAIT WAS THIS HALLOWEEN?) for 5 hours was cancelled. Is it because some crazy lonely tech scheduled it for Halloween? Yes. But it is also because “more time is needed to prepare”…. Does this mean more downtime? [...]

Tonight at 7 PM there is an Ed Wood Machinima Festival. The Ed Wood Machinima Festival will take place at the Lukanida virtual sim. The festival will celebrate three years of Alt-Zoom Studios and machinima. There is also a new contest for machinima. Submissions by October 27th will be reviewed and [...]

I visited the Theta virtual sim in Second Life. The purpose of my visit to the Theta sim in Second Life was to test ride the new Sunfish and Albatross vehicles. The new Sunfish and Albatross vehicles were created by Cube3 (they created the CubePODz). The Sunfish vehicle is a 2 seater [...]

This morning in Second Life logins were not working and teleporting was down. I noticed today that Second Life updated their home page removing many of the different options and stats in favor of a giant banner add. Maybe focusing on more signups is their strategy. I actually hate the new Second [...]

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A popular new sport is Geocaching. This sport involves traveling around to different locations and using GPS coordinates to locate hidden treasures. It is kind of like an obstacle course and a scavenger hunt mixed in with map and compass skills. There is a geocaching headquarters at the Houlihan Island virtual sim [...]

The 1-800-Flowers photography contest was won by photographer Kurston Brody. The winning entry from Kurston Brody was titled “Quiet Sanctuary” and was awarded first prize at the Costa Del Sol virtual sim in Second Life. Kurston will be flown to New York City and participate in a machinima film. The award for [...]

There will be another outage in Second Life on Thursday October 25, 2007. The outage in Second Life will begin at 6am and last for a shocking 5 hours (or longer). Supposidly all for adding new asset storage. Did you ever hear of those expensive hp or ibm hot swapable and expandable [...]

Over 150 students visited the first virtual college fair in the Second Life Teen Grid. The virtual college fair was sponsored by Eye4U Alliance, Alliance Library System and the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, USA and featured representatives from over 20 different colleges. Some notable organizations were the [...]

There are quite a few issues in Second Life this week. The Friends Online web based service is down. Whoops what a surprise. I guess this isn’t the next great social web site afterall. And everyone is late getting paid with the Second Life Stipend issues. Second Life avatars, we [...]