Archive for November, 2007

Arabic Fashion Show: Combine Arabic Makeup Arabic Clothing in Game Fashion Shows

photo credit: ArabianMonkey
Arabic Fashion Show: Combine Arabic Makeup Arabic Clothing in Game Fashion Shows

I recently attended an Arabic fashion show in Second Life. The Arabic fashion show was held at the Isles of Intrigue 3 virtual sim in Second Life. The Arabic fashion show featured a 1001 nights theme with belly dancing [...]

Virtual Bank Robberies

A string of bank robberies has hit Second Life. Hackers in Second Life have stollen L$3.2 million dollars. This is almost twelve thousand dollars United States currency. The culprit seems to be a vulnerability in banking software used at multiple institutions. The hacker was able to withdraw money from an ATM [...]

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! I love Sundays and I love football. What I do not love is voice chat problems in Second Life. The voice chat problems in Second Life continued from Saturday. Logins were still slow. Linden Labs reported DNS problems early in the morning. A four hour outage and [...]

Spiral Trance

Spiral Trance
I attended the virtual world debut of Spiral Trance in Second Life. Spiral Trance appeared in Second Life on Wednesday November 21, 2007 at 10:00 pm. Spiral Trance played live music at the Mens Depot virtual sim in Second Life. The concert lasted for over an hour and was truly enjoyable. [...]

Hitting the Links in Second Life

Hitting the Links in Second Life
I recently attending a Golf champioinship match in Second Life. The Rock Invitational Open Championship was a great event for any golf lover. The Rock Invitational Open Championship took place in Second Life on November 18, 2007 at 2:00 pm. The Rock Invitational Open Championship took place [...]

A number of problems continued today

A number of problems continued today in Second Life. To get things moving in Second Life, Linden Labs replaced the inventory server. Logins were restored to many Second Life residents after about a five hour outage. Support ticket and live chat functionality was restored for short periods but the vendor supporting it [...]

Socio Town

Socio Town is a new web based 3d multiplayer online MMOSG game. Socio Town was created by Outside the Box Software and is still in beta. Socio Town uses the free Adobe Shockwave Player. Hmm this means it sucks. Sorry Outside the Box Software. Your game pales in comparison. [...]

Wow Linden Labs

Wow Linden Labs. Can you get a handle please. This has been the worst week since I can remember in Second Life. Network failures have kept Second Life down for over 16 hours. Dns failures, logins failures, database problems, linden balance failures, grid problems, poor performance, teleporting down, landing, region issues, [...]

Well I asked what else would go down

Well I asked what else would go down in Second Life today and I got an answer. The land auction site went down today for over an hour. No bidding was allowed during that time. Then DNS failures began happening. Region crossings went down, the main site went down, and logins [...]

Problems and WindLight

Problems in Second Life continue. All day today we have seen slow logins. Avatars are colorless or not fully rendered. Many regions will not fully download. Everything pretty much sucks. Asset problems abound. On a positive note some of the user submissions from WindLight are truly amazing delevering fantastic [...]