Julian Is Back in Court

Julian Assange appeared in court again today for his appeal hearing against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault.

Read the coverage at guardian.co.uk, because I cannot be bothered to write about him right now.

My Favicon - UPDATE

When I saw that Blogger today gave us the option to add a favicon to the blog I jumped on it!

I knew straight away what symbol I would choose for my blog.

The only option for me was the mathematical sign for infinity, eternity, forever.

For awhile I was considering choosing one in the rainbow colors, but I wil wait a while and try that later perhaps.

UPDATE due to Vanadis Falconer´s meddling with my brain I may choose another favicon  soon... damn, damn

I am now considering these three as well as the one I mention above.

Egyptian Invasion

Lately I have had a lot of traffic to this blog from Egypt.

 

I couldn't understand why and perhaps still don´t, but this post Nakna Avatarer i SL 102 is what they come here for. They find it when they do a search for "ناكني في كسي", which according to my Google Translator means "Nakny in Wuxi" in English and "Nakny i Wuxi" in Swedish. The problem is that both of the translations are totally meaningless to me.

The post shows my friend Kicki Springflower posing for my art and peace project last year called "Naked avatars in SL" (Well as I was still writing in Swedish then so it was "Nakna avatarer i SL".)

Kicki was pregnant with her first avtatar child at the time but still graciously agreed to participate in my project.

Elfay´s today

Me, Diana and Mari (Photo courtesy of Joetonight Starship)

Bock as Buddy (Photo courtesy of Joetonight Starship)

Enjoying Elfay Pinkdot´s "Coffee and Pajamas Jazz Show" at Circe´s Sunset Jazz Club. Today was "The Buddy Holly Show" as I hope you see.

And right in the middle of the show my Internet Service Provider  was taken down by lightning...

With the Dudes at The Marina

Yesterday my SecondLife started with a visit from Elorian Scarbridge and Butch Diavolo. They stopped by for a grand tour of Southern Charm. During the long tour we had a good conversation, it turn´s out that Butch actually knows almost everyone I am acquainted with in SecondLife.

Afterwards we continued on to Butch´s set at the wonderful new venue Chade Dagger has built on Hinterland. It´s called "The Marina"!

 

Chade Dagger

Sven Sharktooth

On Rebranding of SecondLife

On her blog "Dwell On It" Tateru Nino last week raised the question of a possible rebranding of SecondLife in 2011, in the post "Second Life rebranding in 2011?"

This was my reaction to that idea:

Why the hell mend something that is not broken? I do not share Tateru´s notion that SecondLife sounds "creepy" or is a "lousy brand name".

I would ask the marketing department at Linden Lab to carefully reconsider any changes of the brand name, other than the one I mention in my comment. There are lots of other things that the marketing people can focus their meddlesome energy at to attract new users.

For one thing they could reintroduce the wonderful and thought-evoking slogan “Your World – Your Imagination”.

Another thing they could work with is that awful pseudo-religious logo, I never liked or understood that ugly hand and eye thing.

A third thing is should the vampire-role playing be given such a prominent exposure, why not instead  focus on the community building efforts of all kinds that are going on in-world?

Secret Message To Taco

To Mr. Taco Rubio, Esquire

Dear Sir,

I have received your latest message in our most recent discussion in IM. It was forwarded to my e-mail.

My response is, that whatever number or amount you say I am now asking for the +1-rule to be applied. According to the Kindergarten rules I cannot be beaten now, because I was the first to call for the +1 rule.

Hugs you lovingly +1

Bock

(P.S. Don´t even think you can confuse me with a godawful  Google translation, I may laugh but I will not budge an inch.)