Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Last month was my rez-day, March. I joined in 2008 some time after Myst Online: Uru Live closed for the second time. Several of my friends from Uru were in Second Life, so I tried it. I liked it. I stayed.
I play other games from time to time. Currently Black Desert Online (BDO).
I’m in the process of trying to stop some content scrappers that that regularly hit this site and suck gigabytes of data as fast as they can. It drives the server CPU to 100%, eats bandwidth, and makes this site extremely slow. In an effort to discourage scraping, I have disallowed ‘hot linking’ of images. If … Read more
Most of the site is cleaned. I am running on all new plugins. Removing others. Everything is only 3 months old or newer. I still have a few to re-install. I’m still trying to figure out which search engines to block. I’m not familiar with European Arabic, and Asian engines. The software I am using … Read more
Update This site went down Tuesday morning. The cause: several people are hitting the site causing problems. You may have seen the site changing and going off-line Tuesday. I was in the process of changing things and hardening the site. I thought I had it well protected, but I guess not. It should be harder now. Instead of … Read more
I went through today and updated my blog roll. I removed sites that have not posted anything in the last 12 months or so.
I added two or three replacement links. I also added several from the Firestorm Gateway Project. For information on the project see: NEW: Share your love of Second Life with new tools.
Merry Christmas and belated Happy Hanukkah! Best wishes for those celebrating other holidays…