200th Coffee & Pajamas

Woooohoooo! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

The one and only, the amazing and hilarious Elfay Pinkdot and all of the Second Life glitterati (including myself of course) will celebrate the 200th Show party of "Coffee & Pajamas Jazz Show" on Saturday September 4th, 2010, 8 am - 10 am SLT/PST or 17.00-19.00 Swedish time. (Yup, we are back in the old timeslot!)


Please join us at Circe´s Sunset Jazz Club (Second Life´s oldest jazz club, it´s been there since 2004)

Elfay will be doing an entire show devoted to SL musicians! I am telling you this is not something you want to miss.

To paraphrase the divine Mae West; "When Elfay is good, she is very good. When she is bad, she is better."

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

InWorldz not in the top ten

Well, it should not amaze anyone, but as you can see "InWorldz" didn´t even make the top ten. My guess is they come in around 234th or lower...

Meanwhile Second Life has moved up to 8th place since February 2010 and has also increased it´s average per minute playing time since then. For the cold figures for February 2010 look at this post on "Mer eller mindre KRANFEL".

Farewell Emerald

I will miss you my lovely Emerald viewer! I thought I could trust you and you had so many nifty features but reading the blogs now the truth has finally dawned on me.

I have been a total absolute fool to place my trust in a group of unsupervised adolescent gang of hackers, these brilliantly gifted but terrible children that have made up the dev team of Emerald. My complete lack of insight and knowledge about the technical and safety issues concerned with using a viewer and my realization now of what these young men and women could - and indeed possibly would - do to hurt me have forced me to make a decision.

I will never again use a viewer made by anyone except Linden Labs!

But I beg of you Philip Linden, my dearest interim CEO, please drop that terrible "Viewer 2"-project and pick up some of the slack from the Emerald viewer.

Nakna avatarer i SL - Bonus

The world famous art and peace project gives a temporary special performance on another blog. 


Please visit "Mer eller mindre KRANFEL" to see a revealing picture of my friend Vesper Kling here.


Vesper has formerly appeared in the project on this blog also, but at the time claimed to be "too shy to bare all"! It seems that  his detour to "InWorldz" has given him better confidence in himself.


And all I can say to that is Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"


Thanks for that postcard Vesper, loved it!

OMG I seem to have missed the most important news tonight...

Congratulations to the lovely couple 
Ms. Iendi Laville and Mr. Apollon Allen! 

I love you guys and wish you many happy years together!!!

Emerald - The End

"This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you’ll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of night we tried to die
This is the end

United we stand and divided we fall. Thus ends the final days of the Emerald Project.


Approximately 10 days ago I and a number of devs came together to reform the Emerald Team in the anxious hope of continuing the most popular TPV in Second Life. The incredible driving passion, flair for innovation, endless energy and camaraderie were all still there. Because of this, I was sure we could make this work.


Alas this was not  to be. Linden Lab has made demands of the team that are impossible to meet. Among the demands not listed publicly elsewhere was to publicly release an RC without any ability to load the emkdu or llkdu files. This was do-able. The final demand was to ‘delete’ 3 key members of our team. While making this demand, Linden Lab was quite aware that this was effectively the guillotine to the project.


This is the opportunity for a fork project to develop and create a TPV version of snowstorm, which is what Linden Lab really wants. I am aware of a number of small projects underway now, and I wish them the best, the very best in their endeavors.


For you, the user, what this  means is that there will not be any further releases of the Emerald Viewer after today. The existing releases will continue to operate until Linden Lab decides to terminate their access and end Emerald once and for all.


There will be one final version of the Emerald Viewer released here later today; that is, the viewer we’ve been working on for the past six months. It would be a shame to let the efforts of the developers who put so many unpaid hours into this project go to waste.


This virtual world is ever changing and must be, otherwise it will stagnate. This incredible environment will continue.

Arabella Steadham
Communications Manager"

Bjork

Why even try to improve on the best?