One of the major difficulties in building this is the 12-sized symmetry of the room, a dodecagon. Getting all of the angels and position correct was difficult until I discovered the LoopRez script and the excellent tutorial by Natalia. After much less grief and with far more symmetrical results, the LoopRez script can generate my rotundas with ease.
Well, it appears that Google's Lively does not allow sexual content of any kind.
"Our community standards prohibit sexually explicit images and rooms intended for sexual activity, even if virtual. When we become aware of 'sex rooms' that violate or Terms of Service, we'll work to remove them."
"We don't allow nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. This includes making sexual advances toward other users."
"When browsing or searching for rooms, some Lively citizens come upon these rooms as the top results, which can erode their Lively experience...Lively is intended to be a place for Lively citizens to connect with each other and express themselves freely and in a safe environment," Google said.
It's been said that everyone wants to write a book. But, it's hard, time consuming, and you have to find a publisher. Self publishing is expensive and problematic. In others, it's hard work.
Until now.
Blurb has an application where you can design a book, get it printed, etc.
But where to get all of the content...
Did I mention, that Blurb's application, which runs on both Mac and PC, can slurp data, pictures, etc from the web? From your blog on Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, and others? It can download and auto-typeset for you, all of your blog's content, then you can go in and tweak it to perfection.
Well, now I mentioned it :)
And when you're done, you can sell it on the web through Blurb.
Prices begin at $12.95.
To all you bloggers wishing to be an author and who have already authored a bunch of content, slurp your photos and articles into a book and put it up for sale.
I was going through my Feedburner stats just a moment ago and everything seemed fine...
Traffic. Normal. Check.
Subscribers. Hmmm, a bit down. Check.
Incoming links. Usual suspects. Check.
Outgoing links. Usual...
Hey! wait a minute!
I don't remember writing about "Huge Teen Tits!"
Hmmm, or did I...
Nah, that'd be weird, even for me.
Search blog. No results.
Weird. Use Feedburner to track it down...
Darn! Some spammer slipped an ad into my blog...
From The Winder Market, Nadine shows off a nice new meme - a photo mosaic from Flickr.
Meme Rules:
You type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr search. Then, using only the first page, pick an image. Then, copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the mosaic maker from fd's Flickr Toys.
1. What is your first name?
Tiessa. the view from the top of Tiessa's Palace
2. What is your favorite food?
Nectarine. Nectarine Blossoms
3. What high school did you go to?
Paradise Lost (in SL :). paraiso perdido / lost paradise
4. What is your favorite color?
Duh. Pink. Rocks of Gold. Why its labeled pink, I'll never know, but its a pretty picture.
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
Veyron Supercharge ;) Vint & Veyron. And I got to pick a picture that had my #2 in it, Vint Falken :)
6. Favorite drink?
Strawberry daiquiri. Strawberries, anyone?
7. Dream vacation?
The stars. Fly me to the Mooooon...
8. Favorite dessert?
Cherry Pie. ~I smell sex & candy~
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
Me (Tiessa). Tiessa. Who or what else could I possibly want to be? I'm perfect already :)
10. What do you love most in life?
Me (Tiessa). Just Kidding :) Freedom. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
11. One Word to describe you.
Bimbo. Bimbo.
12. Your flickr name.
Tiessa Montgolfier. Tiessa at the May 20, 2007 blogger party
Reuters makes some interesting conclusions from Linden Lab's economic statistics. I just happen to think that the analyst didn't think it through enough to give reasonable causes, or rather they preferred to reach conclusions that were sensational and would sell more newspapers rather than boring and reasonable ones that people wouldn't get worked up about.
Here's a relevant excerpt:
Second Life had 88,585 of the subscription-paying accounts at the end of May, down from 89,845 a year earlier.
The overwhelming majority of avatars use basic accounts, which are free. Premium accounts, which cost US$10 a month, come with additional privileges including enhanced support and the right to own virtual property on Second Life’s mainland.
Even as Linden Lab’s base of paying customers shrinks over the past year, the total hours spent by avatars inside Second Life has increased dramatically. In May of 2007 total usage of Linden Lab’s virtual world was about 20.8 million hours. A year later the number spiked to almost 32 million hours, a gain of 54 percent.
With hours up but premium accounts down, the data suggests that while Second Life is failing to attract to new users, existing customers find the virtual world more engaging than ever, spending ever-greater amounts of time there.
A wild card that Linden’s statistics cannot account for is the rapid development of open-source Second Life variant OpenSim. The zero growth among premium accounts may represent a shift in the most die-hard avatars.
Avatars unable to find a home within Second Life including banking institutions and ageplayers have already migrated to OpenSim.
One thing that I've found useful is to clear your disk cache and relog. That forces the client to download all of the inventory information from the server again. Often, inventory loss is just a matter of the client forgetting about what's in your inventory for various reasons.
I had this happen to me the other day when I was copying a few hundred animations and scripts from my inventory into a prim. It eventually timed out with an error message after only copying some of the animations and scripts, there was a lot of lag in a laggy sim so the copy took forever. Unfortunately, my inventory window showed that all of the "no copy" items were not in my inventory and checking the prim, they were not in the prim.
Like any good user, I panicked and cursed Linden Labs as my first step.
Then, I realized that my client had told the server to do all of the copying, but did not handle the error of "only some of the stuff successfully copied" that the server returned. Probably because of laggy communications or other load related issues. Since the server had not actually copied the inventory, I hoped that refreshing my client's cache of the inventory would work.
It did.
For more extensive inventory loss, over on the Huddles site, there is a post on how to retrieve lost inventory, one of the comments provides nice step by step instructions on how to do it.
Ok, finally retrieved both my huddles… here’s what you have to do:
1) sign up as a premium member - you can’t do the below without it…
2) go to the support page
3) go to live chat
4) tell the operator everything that happened to the best of your ability and request: I need an inventory repair. Be as specific as you can. It will take sometime, approx 30 minutes. Be patient.
5) they will come back and say check your inventory. It likely won’t be in there… you need to REBOOT SL. When you come back in it will say Repairing Inventory Folders.
6) check to make sure it’s there - report this back to the operator.
7) If this doesn’t work, the last resort is to submit a ticket — good luck getting it heard.
GOOD LUCK! I hope it works for you as it did me, I’ve spent most of the day trying to get this back together!
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