Linden Labs have been suffering from even more problems since I last reported on Second Life, so I'm going to have another rant. It's behind a cut, and includes updates straight from the horse's mouth (ie. I asked the coders who wrote SL).

The first thing is a correction: the copybot program doesn't work in the way I stated last time I wrote about ( Read more... )

Some online systems are well designed. They are responsive, user friendly, have good security for their content and don't cost the earth. On the other hand, there is Second Life.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6141082.stm

About 8 miles north to south, and 5 miles across, totally black.

We've just had a 3 hour power cut. It went out just before 5, and came back on just after 8. It wasn't just our house, or even just our street, or, insanely, just our town. It was pretty much the whole of Bury ( Read more... )

Wall Street Journal

Complete with quote from Ian Stewart.

amazon, bbc, = 299792458 m / s, dictionary, = 2.71828183, firefox, gmail, = 6.626068e-34 m^2 kg / s, ikea, jokes, = 1.3806503e-23 m^2 kg s^-2 K^-1, lyrics, mapquest, news, orbitz, paris hilton, quotes, ryanair, spybot, target, ups, valentines day, weather, xbox, yahoo, zip codes

1. Now. Then. Now. Then. Now. Gone.
2. Girls fossilised, then dance, act, engineer
3. Measuring member, then feeling breast. Hooray!
4. Norwegian tales of the evidentally expected
5. Cat and mice try outwit spider

Answers under cut!
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The twist is that they are my condensing of various books. 1 point for each book.

1. Now. Then. Now. Then. Now. Gone.
2. Girls fossilised, then dance, act, engineer
3. Measuring member, then feeling breast. Hooray!
4. Norwegian tales of the evidentally expected
5. Cat and mice try outwit spider

Feel dreadful, but at least am at work. Still just want to curl up and die ( Read more... )

Don't care about anything anymore. Pills don't work. Have no appetite, don't sleep and don't even care about sex ( Read more... )