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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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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I have never actually done a book review before on this blog, but my previous two blogs I did them all the time. After reading Reality is Broken, I felt compelled to write a full formal review, as its contents are perfect fodder for this blog. In fact there is enough here to fill a good half a dozen blog
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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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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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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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So with a lot of State of the Union, and State of the Nation, and State of the State speeches the last week or so, how about a quick view at the state of the Metaverse? Growth: None Second Life has seen no real growth at all in the last calendar year. This according to their last quarterly report. IMVU
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