Nigel Paravane

After doing a lot of Second Life during the first half of the year, I took a few months off. As I previously mentioned, I needed a break from what I was doing in that virtual environment because I felt I had gotten into a rut. For a social environment, I was being rather anti-social.
When [...]

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I just got a question via email about how much land to buy when first doing so in Second Life. Here is the response I gave.
That’s a good question. Do you plan to build on the land yourself or buy a prefab? The smallest lot that people usually build on is 512 square meters, and [...]

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I’m on the plane now between Chicago and Tucson, heading for the InformationWeek 500 Conference. Travel has gone very well so far, with no glitches. Evidently the guy sitting behind me on the plane was arrested recently on a Driving-While-Intoxicated charge. To hear him speak, the problem was that he got caught, not that he [...]

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I did the weirdest thing this morning: I sold all of my Second Life land and converted most of the Lindens into US dollars.
Am I giving up? Am I pulling up stakes? Why would I do this? This blog entry, the twenty-fifth in this series about Second Life, is about the answers to those questions.
So, [...]

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I decided to elevate my castle and surrounding land up several hundred meters off the ground. Here are a few shots of what it looks like and how it is developing.

I did this because:

I wanted more elbow room,
The ground was snowy and once I “sodded” over it, I was no longer tied to the terrain, [...]

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If you own or control land in Second Life, you can play streaming music to anyone who is on your land. This all boils down to their having streaming music enabled and your providing SL a URL to the music. Let’s start with the first.

Looking at the menu bar at the top of the screen, [...]

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