Birth Of A New Sea

The Blake Sea has finally appeared east of Nautilus, surrounded by the relocated Second Life Sailing Federation sims. It is truly a vast area of connected, sailable waters that I look forward to pointing my bow (well, that of my boat, anyway) toward. Here's hoping the waters are mer-friendly!

I don't know yet how the new void sim limits on prims and avatars will affect any regattas or other activities in the area. Let's hope that the SLSF can continue its activities in their new location.

It's My Second Rezday

I figure that's 12 in SL years.

Yo-Yoing Through The Metaverse

Is it just me, or does it seem that SL has been having more than its share of problems lately? Here are the Grid Status blog entry titles for just the past week:

[RESOLVED] InWorld Issues - Logins Disabled
Posted by Status Desk on January 18th, 2009 at 08:01 pm PST
[RESOLVED] In world Services Unreliable
Posted by Status Desk on January 18th, 2009 at 07:30 pm PST
Logins Intermittent.
Posted by Status Desk on January 18th, 2009 at 03:51 pm PST
Second Life Wiki Maintenance
Posted by Status Desk on January 18th, 2009 at 01:00 am PST
[RESOLVED] Possible Inworld Issues
Posted by Status Desk on January 17th, 2009 at 05:23 pm PST
[RESOLVED] Inworld Issues
Posted by Status Desk on January 16th, 2009 at 05:15 pm PST
[Resolved] Logins Currently Disabled
Posted by Status Desk on January 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am PST
[Resolved] Inworld Issues - Logins Disabled
Posted by Status Desk on January 15th, 2009 at 01:46 pm PST
[Update 01/15 10:02] Rolling restart to deploy 1.25.3, Thu Jan 15 and Tue-Wed Jan 20-21
Posted by ReleaseTeam on January 15th, 2009 at 10:02 am PST
Scheduled Pjira Maintenance
Posted by Status Desk on January 14th, 2009 at 03:54 pm PST
[RESOLVED] Inworld Issues - Logins Disabled
Posted by Status Desk on January 14th, 2009 at 03:05 pm PST
[Resolved] Updating Back-end Servers
Posted by Status Desk on January 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am PST
Intermittent support portal malfunction
Posted by Status Desk on January 14th, 2009 at 07:40 am PST
[RESOLVED] Partial Inventory Maintenance Scheduled for Tuesday 01/13/09
Posted by Status Desk on January 13th, 2009 at 03:57 pm PST
[RESOLVED] Logins disabled
Posted by Status Desk on January 13th, 2009 at 03:39 pm PST
[RESOLVED] blog.secondlife.com unavailable
Posted by Status Desk on January 12th, 2009 at 08:32 pm PST
XML-RPC service was degraded
Posted by Status Desk on January 12th, 2009 at 05:46 am PST
[RESOVLED] Logins disabled
Posted by Status Desk on January 11th, 2009 at 11:20 am PST

Even ignoring the scheduled maintenance entries, this seems to be a lot more problems than we've had in the recent past. Yes, they are marked RESOLVED, but you have to wonder if they really are, when the grid goes wonky again just half an hour later.