Happy Rezday, Ziggy!

Today is the second rezday of Ziggy Starsmith, the wonderful, talented, charming, sweet, studelicious and always sexy - through all his changes and makeovers!

I wish you a wonderful and happy rezday. buddy, SecondLife wouldn´t be the same without you!

Love ya, big hugs and lots of kisses!

Visiting With Ars

After midnight my time but fortunately SecondLife runs on SLT/PST so it was still Saturday in-world, there is some benefit with time zones after all.

It was a beautiful night at Mirromere, which is my favorite memorial place for Ars.

All Saints Day

Today is the All Saints day in Sweden. It is a movable holiday that occurs on the Saturday that comes between October 31st and November 6th. (When this holiday was created by the Swedish parliament in 1953 Saturdays were still work days.) The church celebrates another All Saints day on November 1st, but that day isn't a holiday.

This Saturday many of us visit our dear departed and light candles and lay out flowers on their graves or - if you are old, sick and tired as my parents - you light candles in front of pictures of the loved ones.

I visited my sister and grandparents graves today on behalf of the family, other than those few hours I have spent most of the day sleeping. I don´t know what has made me so tired, because I am otherwise in a good mood.

Tonight I am going to reenter SecondLife and light candles for my babe and think happy thoughts.

Complete List of Virtual World Blogs

Sven Idyll photographed by Sven Idyll

The Swedish blogger Sven Idyll has been working hard to make a complete list of links to blogs covering virtual worlds, although mostly SecondLife.

He has now collected a list with more than a hundred links to active blogs. The list is sorted with the latest updated on top. If a blog isn't updated in six months it will be removed.

Only a few of the links are for fashion or event blogs as Sven thinks these blogs - although they have great layouts are mainly for commercial reasons - and he wants to focus on the blogs covering living in virtual worlds or the technical aspects. He is however considering to maybe create a special collection of links to the fashion blogs in the future.

I have added a gadget in the right column with a direct link to the list, click the image "Virtual Links" and it will take you straight there.

Sven says he will gratefully accept any hints of blogs he may have missed, so if you don´t find your blog in the list tell him about it!

My own tips to Sven on missing links are
Gay-Worlds News (http://www.gay-worldsnews.com/),
The Bullring (http://torrospyker.blogspot.com/) and
Second Pride (http://www.secondpride.com/)

Time to Sign Up

If you aren't an organ donor already you should sign up for it now.

Always make sure that you let the people close to you know where you stand in this matter, so you do not dump the decision in their lap at a time when they are preoccupied with other things!

Organ Donor Foundation TV commercial - 'Leila' from kirk gainsford on Vimeo
(via copyranter)

This is by far the best public service announcement for organ donation I have ever seen, it´s strong and hits home hard. The best part is of course that it is completely true. If you aren't an organ donor you do take 5-7 others with you who could have been saved!

Swedes can sign up here Donationsrådet.
Americans can sign up here organdonor.gov
Canadians can find out how and where to sign up here Canadian Living
Australians can sign up here Australia MediCare
Danes can sign up here sundhed.dk
Britons can sign up here Organ Donation
New Zealanders can sign up here Organ Donors Foundation
Belgians can find consent forms in French and Dutch here
The Dutch can sign up here - with DigID Donorregister or with a form Donorregister

In Finland it is automatically assumed that you consent to organ donation unless you have previously expressed opposition. (Way to go, Finland!)

Lazy buggers of any other nationality, just do a Google search for organ donation and your country.

Blog Stats for October

Bock in SecondLife broke the 13k pageviews mark in October 2011. The new record is 13 436 pageviews. The previous records were set last month (12 749 pageviews) and July 2011 (12 477 pageviews).

I must readily admit that I am rather surprised by the increase as I haven´t been posting as regularly due to my preoccupation with first life.

Pageviews by country 10/2011

The trend towards a more International audience is strengthened further.

Sweden is still in the lead as my all time largest reader country with close to 53 274 pageviews, while the United States comes in at 29 272 pageviews and Egypt in third place with 5 725 pageviews.

The three largest language groups among my readers in October 2011 were English (46,9 %), Swedish (27,6 %) and German (5,1 %).

Ziggy: What´s Up With Linden Labs?

Today my buddy Ziggy Starsmith talks straight (for once some bitches would say) to Linden Lab about the recent in-world problems on his blog Ziggy On The Edge of Second Life. Ziggy´s thoughts are as always well worth reading.

Read the full editorial here: Whats Up With Linden Labs?