Monthly Archives: April 2011

Ten Years Online

I just discovered that not only have I been on Second Life for 7 years.  Ariane Barnes has been around as a virtual character for 10 years.  The above picture is rendered from the oldest complete “Ariane” poser file I could find, dated April 30, 2001. Ariane has been an online character for over a decade now. The original concept

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Seven Years in Second Life

A thread at Second Life Universe put up a challenge to show the evolution of your avatar.  I decided to participate.   Even though I first did this three years ago on my 4th anniversary, I thought it was worth updating. 2004: Creepy system avatar.  Some would call this a “classic” SL avatar.   For me it looked ugly, which is why

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Happiness 102

Believe it or not, people actually expect to be happy in life, and they even expect this happiness to endure.  Who would ever think that? 🙂 🙂 🙂 Actually, real lasting happiness is achievable.  It is just a matter of learning where real happiness comes from, and pursuing it.  Conventional wisdom says it comes from money, and owning lots of

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The Energy Situation

I generally don’t like to talk much about the real world on this blog, but I have had an interest in the energy sector for almost as long as my interest in virtual worlds.  I wouldn’t bother, but between the nuclear crisis in Japan, the revolutions happening in oil exporting nations like Libya and Bahrain, and the recent sudden rise

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Dating Sim 7.0

All the stuff I wanted to do for version 7 is finally complete.  So I am officially releasing version 7 of Ariane’s Dating Sim.  The full release can be downloaded here.  If you already have the 7beta version download, all the changes since then can be downloaded as a small patch here. The primary changes made since the beta release:

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