Finally. I decided that I was time to clean my inventory. I have been in Second Life for almost a year now and stuff builds up. I must have almost 20 objects named object and plenty of random junk. It took me the greater part of two hours, but its finally clean. I was amazed at how much stuff was in there.

When I started out on my cleaning, my objects folder was a mess. When I opened it, the scroll bar became very small. It actually lagged me to browse it. I kept it sorted by date and there were a number of unnamed builds and recent purchases at the top. I created a bunch of folders and put each item into its perfect location. The rest went to the trash. I had a lot of stuff from my first days in world. Back then, I took every object that was free to copy, amazed at just having it. As a result, I had several kinds of particle spewers and roughly 20 colored candles. All of that went. I found a lot of items that I bought and never used. A personal organizer before the days of event announcements. A hat. A umbrella. Several cars. Scripting tutorials. I'm giving lots of this away for free as fun gifts this holiday season. You might log in and find one of these waiting for you.

That was just the objects folder. If you took a look at my clothing or textures folders, they would be in a similar state. I've just about cleaned up the objects. I can actually see the entire folder without having to scroll. Now to order those clothes.

Ow! I was walking in Cordova and a barrel fell out of the sky. It landed on me and I crushed to the ground. I knew the sandboxes could be dangrous, but this?

Better watch out for those falling objects.

Halloween nears. The dead begin to rise. Scripts come back from the great abyss known as the Trash and haunt us mere mortals.

I was minding my own business, flying through the mysterious land known as 1.5.6. Suddenly, a swarm of green boxes descended on me and started ravenously biting and clawing me. I pulled out my shotgun and started blasting them, but they soon overpowered me. My knees gave under the intense pressure and I collapsed to the ground.

They covered me and I was barely able to breathe. I blacked out and awoke at my home, unsure of how I had got there.

Linden Lab has anwsered our prayrs once again. After a few forum threads last night, Linden Lab has gifted us with an Island Sandbox! It is named Island Sandbox and is to the south of Luna, near the welcome area and city sims.

The nice thing about the island sandbox is that it is one of the few places in game where I can set a draw distance to 512 and not mega lag. In the photo, I also have far clip disabled so that you can see the avatars. The nice thing about an island sandbox is that it elimitates the chance of a stray object or prim from escaping into the main grid.

I can imagine that I'll be using this sandbox a lot, mainly because I can teleport here, and not fly. It feeds my laziness.

Earlier this week, Linden Lab announced the Second Life on Campus program. It encourages the use of SL in the classroom and at universities. University of Pittsburgh is one of the first schools to participate in the program. English students, with the in game last name of Pitt, are learning about online worlds for the semester.

The students have been in game for almost a week and have already created a classroom for themselves. It is located in a pleasant snow sim with nice expanses of empty land on all sides. From the exterior, it looks like a orange cube with a sloped glass roof and solid glass on one wall. Inside, there are a few big tables and numerous chairs. Beachballs are in one corner.

Its great to see new players getting into the game so fast. I encouage everyone to welcome the Pitts into SL.

Dang it! The end of the month nears and I am at 95% of my Flickr uploads. Until I get a flickr pro account, that means no photos for a few days. Maybe if someone were to gift me with a pro account (hint hint) I could post some photos of their builds and neat places. Oh well. Or I could just wait for a few days.

Last night was great. I got to sit in on the latest Town Hall with Philip Linden (aka Philip Rosedale), the Second Life CEO and founder. The town hall is an event where the Lindens anwser questions from the players. Philip started the event with an announcement. First off, he announced that Linden Lab has received 8 Million dollars from a venture capital firm. And that we are getting new sims today. In fact, we got a ton of new void sims and 2 new sandboxes.

The really fun part about the event was seeing Philip in person. Well, not really in person, but that's not the point. It was a blast getting to see the actual happenings and not a retransmition. 30 other players attended, most of whom I know, which was a real surprise. Naturally, I took tons of photos, 30 to be exact. Towards the end of the event, people started putting hats and various other objects on Philip. I got a few great pics of that. Unfortunately, I missed the end of the event and any mind-blowing fireworks extravaganzas that may have accompanied that. Still, it was great. I've uploaded some of my favorite photos to Flickr. Go and check 'em out.

Photos on Flickr.

I just couldn't resist the urge to spray this on the building. When I did, though, it was fine. Actually, I was encouraged by Oz Spade. His community Graffiti Project lets resident tag his building. I sprayed this and a giant 8 on his building today. Anyone can leave a tag, just go to Sistiana 133,248.

Its a really great build. Try it out.

Playing with the debug menu can yeild fun results. So can light prims.