I was chatting with a friend on Twitter tonight, and happened to mention the Kira Café, an institute in Second Life. It has been some time since I visited Kira, and since their Play As Being group meets four times a day, around the clock, I decided to drop in and say hello, even though [...]

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Oh, yes! This one could be really fun for bloggers and their readers, since a window into the world can be embedded in any web page. I’m talking about Metaplace, the latest in a long list of VWs (virtual worlds) I’ve dabbled in.

My account (name: KatLemieux) is only a few hours old, so there’s not [...]

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I’ve been delving into the underpinnings of several web technologies lately, including one that’s been added to this site. If you scroll down below the Google ads in the right sidebar on this page, you will now find “Kat’s Tweets” — the last 5 posts I’ve made to my Twitter account. That took a bit [...]

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Longtime Scilands buddy, Hackshaven Harford, Twittered this week about a new app he’d found called Sparkle IM from Genkii.
Sparkle is a virtual worlds (VW) client for the iPhone that allows the user to login and communicate via instant messages with friends, and via proximity chat with avatars that are in the same location. Sorry, [...]

Posted in Avatar, OSGrid, OpenSIM, SecondLife, Software, Twitter, Virtual Worlds, WiFi, iPhone, wireless 3 Comments »

OK, the antenna, data card and modem are working fine, but the mid-sized 12-volt inverter we’ve got can’t handle the laptop and the modem at the same time if the laptop’s battery is low, so we need another solution. We’ll be stopping in Amarillo tomorrow, and maybe we can find a bigger one there at [...]

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While it is not new technology, until now we have not had a satisfactory way to consistently get true broadband internet away from home. We’ve tried WiFi at various RV parks and internet cafés, smartphones, and even an internet-connected satellite dish, but they all have serious drawbacks. WiFi connections operated by uninformed park caretakers can [...]

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When I logged into Second Life™ tonight, the message of the day informed me that I ought to investigate their new SLim client, which they say “enables Second Life Residents to text or voice chat with SL Friends without having the SL viewer open.”
That sounded pretty good to me, so in spite of the rather [...]

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I’ve just added a permanent page to this site, featuring a link to my “room” in Google’s new Lively virtual world. Please link to my Lively room and let me know what you think. Oh, sorry, but so far only MS Windows XP/Vista users can actually do that for now, but Google promises [...]

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I was just talking to Henrik Bennetsen at Stanford Humanities Lab about his project, Preserving Virtual Worlds. So much has been happening in the homebrew virtual worlds space that it’s hard to cover it all, but we exchanged some info about various sites we’ve each visited, and talked about the possible future of these exciting [...]

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Since my last post here, a lot has been accomplished.
Last time I wrote, I was downloading the OpenSim server software to my external hard disk via SVN. That went well, but I have to admit that the instructions for compiling and running it on MacOS 1.5 were so daunting that I deferred that until after [...]

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