Myst/Uru – Page 5 – The Kind Healer

… And Then There Was One

For those who have not heard, the Second Life island of Telador has been taken down as of last Sunday night. I’ve just checked the map (uploaded image) and it’s missing for now. My list of locations you can normally find me has now shrunk to one: Numbakulla.

From what I heard, the island itself will not be sold, but instead used for the owner’s existing business venture within SL. I’m happy to hear that actually, as at least they still get to keep it (and perhaps be able to have better land controls than their mainland shop has).

There is quite a bit of video and pictures that was taken over the past weekend (as well as in the past). My pics will be up soon (work and family priorities notwithstanding). Video is pending a proper editor – Windows Movie Maker is not liking the raw Fraps files, and is splitting them abnormally. :( I can still use it to create a reduced-size ‘raw’ format, which I could then upload.

–TSK

Video Insanity and Other Upcoming Projects

Well, despite the mystblogs aggragate site down, I’m sending this note out for those who actually are following my feed elsewhere. ;)

I’m in the process of going fraps-crazy in Second Life, getting video and snaps of Telador Isle before it gets repurposed by the island’s owners. Before people ask: 1) I asked about this and they were happy to let me do this, and 2) I’ll have the raw files up at some point, ~~probably Sunday~~.

The eventual goal is to compare the video shot in Second Life with a similar track done in Uru, probably done in movie style. I’ve had a song in my head for over a week now and its the inspiration for the project (that and the 2006 St Pats parade route…).

Once that is done, I’ve got two other things going on that’s not work-related:

– My shells for the Ahra Pahts project came in, so I’ve to fire up Blender finally and start working on that (at least for an initial setup).

– The libsecondlife project (link moving, I’ll add to sidebar later) had a proxy-style application posted to their SVN. Once that appears to be noted as working well enough, I’m thinking of grabbing one copy and trimming it down severely so it can be used as a ‘hook’ for outside devices without needing an open XML-RPC channel. SL Residents can swing by the voting page and look at Prop 203 for the inspiration behind this particular insanity.

*wave*
–TSK

Old Until Uru Pics

I’ve uploaded a bunch of old UU pics, including some from the 05 parade, as well as some from the xmas party the Guard did last winter.

Link here. Peruse and Enjoy.

Warning, the 05 parade pics are still in bmp, I was in a hurry to send them up and will probably convert them at some point.

:salute:
–TSK

Bugger

Note to self: No matter how minimal you set it, turn sounds off during important events.

Gah. Kicked out of tonight’s townhall presence (stack dump) and at that point work was calling.

I got a bunch of info anyway beforehand, which was enough to satisfy me for now. I’ll check summaries later, I had fun anyway.

–TSK

Fun With WordPress and Subdomains

Always a good time when you’ve never dealt with cPanel, subdomains, or the deep pitfalls of Fantastico before. :P

Anyway, started setup of a new WP site (T_S Journal), which will have a feed request to Uru Blogs once I’m ready for it.

Also, for those who actually visit, I’m swapping themes again. This one, blog.txt, is very clean (a nice qualifier in my case) and also supports the WordPress Widget format if I end up going in that direction (probably). I’ve already got an idea for one, though I may need to have a talk with Linden Lab. ;)

[EDIT – I actually needed the widget plugin loaded and enabled, so that I could get the sidebar similar to what I’m used to. Go figure. However, its much nicer to modify it, in particular from work. :) ]

–TSK