Blog Stuff

I’m busy with RL Work. I probably won’t get to blog much between now and the end of the year. There doesn’t seem to be much going on in SL development. So, I won’t miss much.

Developers are busy, but through the holiday season things seem to move slowly. We should see a Firestorm release soon. STORM-2067 – Glossy Projectors, a change in how reflections and materials interact is apparently complete and headed through QA and toward release. Along with that change STORM-2056 – Projector reflections do not respect the environment intensity parameter also appears completed.

Experience Tools is moving forward, but not ready for release. The Auto-build tools are near completion, which will mean more stable viewers.

More Group Chat changes are in the works. But, the big improvements have been made. Expect only minor improvements and may be better message error notices.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Nal.

Every so often someone surprises me. Mr. S. did when he asked to photograph me. I agreed and it was painless… The results are interesting. I like them.

He got his poses from just the AO I was wearing. I think he did well with the images. You can find them here: Ink and Moon and Information Warrior. His entire stream is here: Mr S./ Bell or Balcony @ Flickr. It is an interesting collection. Check it out.

I as posted earlier, I moved the blog and my other sites from a Windows to a Linux server. That borked my image links. I did an SQL REPLACE today To fix ALL the image links in the blog. They should all be appearing now. Please let me know if you see any that are not displaying.

I am mostly moved into my new place, boxes still everywhere and it seems whatever I need at the moment is in a box at the bottom of a stack. But, the Internet is up and while AT&T’ U-verse is only 3mb/sec here, Second Life runs with no apparent loss of performance.

California’s weather decided to imitate Florida’s. So, 80-90F (32C) with 80-90% humidity and showers the last day of the move. Friends helped but I am still sore from lifting and carrying and tired. We partied Friday night.

I crushed my 7 month old S4 phone during the move. :/ So, I was totally without tech for a day. That was an expensive mistake/accident. But, I got a new S5, which is supposed to have a better camera. I did NOT like the S4’s camera. I haven’t decided if the S5’s is better, yet.

Now, to get unpacked and do some catching up on Second Life.

For the next 10 days or so I’ll be moving. I don’t know when my office will be back up. I’m moving from country life, as much as California has such a thing, into a small college town (50k 2010). Still inland San Diego area and I’ll have larger towns around me. Unfortunately no fiber optics, so I’ll be going with ATT Uverse wireless. I have no idea how well that will or won’t work. But, vacancy rates are 3% in SD just now. So, while I didn’t get what I want, I at least found something.

I won’t be in world much during the move. Nor will I be posting as my system will be down. I’ll have to see how the move goes before I’ll know when I’ll be back online.

Too many things to worry about…

At least the wind has let up. They seem to be getting ahead of the fires.

9 fires in different places. All but one has suspicious beginnings. Its arson…

The large building on the skyline right of center is the new Palomar hospital. Looking west over Hwy I-15 from the east-side frontage road near the Valley Parkway exit. Over the mountain in the center is the University of California at San Marcos. It and thousands of homes to the west were evacuated yesterday. Over night the fire came over the mountain. Many homes have burned, but it is not as bad as a few years ago… Lots of tragedy.

The air is horrible from all the smoke.