Archive for January 23rd, 2008
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Today in Second Life - Thursday 1 November, 2007
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
27,981 new signups bringing us to 10,614,271 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 51,914 at 2:25PM, and a minimum concurrency of 26,808 at 1:15AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,933.
The Grid Stability […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Learning Like (and From) KidsI don’t often have the chance to get in a classroom these days, and even more rare is when I drop into a room with just middle school boys. And after the day I spent doing just that yesterday, I was reminded that I need to do that more often. Ostensibly, […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Links for Friday, January 4, 2008
Skype Journal: 5 Things for Bloggers to Do Before Dying - “Write a Blogger Last Will and Testament…“Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Why ThisUniverse? - “We begin with traditional nontheistic explanations (traditionally, one recalls, there was only one universe), which also include a radically nontraditional explanation and the philosophical positions that the […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
SecondCast #46 - The Diva The SecondCasters interview TheDiva Rockin one of the contestants competing in Big Brother Second Life. Be sure to visit her and the other contestants in the King of Media sim. And Torrid, here is the link you didn’t think I’d bother […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Learning Like (and From) KidsI don’t often have the chance to get in a classroom these days, and even more rare is when I drop into a room with just middle school boys. And after the day I spent doing just that yesterday, I was reminded that I need to do that more often. Ostensibly, […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Be sure and visit my stall here in Ravenglass - Negozio Del Graffiti - fine authentic textures for your unique building needs!posted by Kidd Newchurch on Ravenglass using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Women Rule: *L Word* in Second Life Wins Emmy, Contract Extension; *Gossip Girls* in SL Boasts 38K Monthly UniquesEstate Manager Malarwen Hall plays hostess at L World Island dance party Shortly before the New Year, leading metaverse developer the Electric Sheep Company laid off a large part of its staff, a move many (including […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
IN/MSX: Running 4 Copies of an Operating System at Once
In mid-1981 I was working at a little place in Rockville Maryland called the National Institute for Safety Research (NISR) while working part-time on my BS degree in Computer Science at American University in Washington, DC.
While working at NISR, writing PL/I code to analyze driver […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Today in Second Life - Wednesday 31 October, 2007
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
32,528 new signups bringing us to 10,585,610 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 50,872 at 3:30PM, and a minimum concurrency of 27,105 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,968.
The Grid Stability […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Booch is no mooch
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Grady Booch might not be a household name, but he’s the Chief Scientist for IBM’s Rational Software Corp. unit. In a recent interview with Computerworld, Booch has held forth on a number of topics, including his take on SL. His approach to explaining the value of SL to […]
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