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Half asleep I hear a voice
Is it only in my mind
Or is it someone calling me someone I failed and left behind
To work it out I let them in
All the good guys and the bad guys that I've been
All the devils that disturbed me and the angels that defeated them... somehow
Come together in me now
Face to face I greet the cast
Set in silence we begin
Companions in an empty room I taste their victory and sin
To work it out I let them in
All the good guys and the bad guys that I've been
All the devils that disturbed me and the angels that defeated them... somehow
Come together in me now
A tale of beauty and the beast
I defend my soul from those who would accuse me
I share the famine and the feast
I have been the world and felt it turning seen the jester yearning to amuse me
Like a circus on parade
Seldom close enough to see
I wander through an angry crowd and wonder what became of me
To work it out I let them in
All the good guys and the bad guys that I've been
All the devils that disturbed me and the angels that defeated them... somehow
Come together in me now
- Paul Williams
Phantom's Theme (Beauty and the Beast)
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.
I figure that's 12 in SL years.
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 disabledPosted by Status Desk on January 11th, 2009 at 11:20 am PSTEven 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.
I own a Flying Tako, which as most people who sail in SL know, is an amazing little craft that sails fairly realistically. But I'd been having to change to human when sailing because of the pose.
With the Blake Sea and the sailing sims to open east of Nautilus, a short swim/sail from Mermaid's Dream, I decided to do something about that. It didn't take long to fire up Poser and make a mer equivalent of the Tako pose, which I then replaced the original pose with in the boat.
Always looking for more things to put up for sail sale in the store, I made up a vendor sign and slapped a L$50 price tag on it.
I'll probably be spending more time on the water now.
While swimming behind the store, I noticed a red line that hadn't been there before. A closer inspection showed a rocket-powered newbie figure fetched up against my back wall.
Was he part of a rocket zombie newbie invasion?
His root prim wasn't on my land, so the autoreturn couldn't get rid of him. I fixed that by jumping on his head and bumping him around for a while, with the hope that I could get him to fly south for the winter. I couldn't push him far enough, but I finally was able to get him enough over the land boundary that I could send him back to his launch pad.
No, not our main store, but the branch that was in Elounda. The mer colony there has joined the Minoan Empire and is moving north into the Island of Thera sim. Work is proceeding on the sea floor landscaping, and it promises to be an exciting place! Here's a landmark: Mermaid's Dream, Island of Thera (76, 39, 2)
No, I'm not referring to yesterday's U.S. presidential election, but LL's amendments in M Linden's Letter to Second Life Residents to its recent Openspace pricing changes. The widespread consternation and protests expressed in user blogs and inworld seem to have gotten our concerns made known to the SL gods.
Here's the new setup according to M Linden:
Here is how we are amending the price change:
1. We are going to retain the Openspaces product at its original price point and its original intended use (forest, water, etc.). We will have technical limitations to help regulate their use, initially avatar and prim limit restrictions, eventually event, classified and script limits. Those of you who chose to use the Openspaces as intended may stay at the US$75 rate, but will need to contact the concierge team to do so.
2. If you want more than an Openspace, we will offer you the choice of moving to a new product called Homesteads that is intended for light use such as low density rentals. For existing Openspace owners we will phase in the price increase for this new product over the next 6 months. Homesteads will also have technical limits for avatars and prims, and eventually script limits as well.
* January 5, 2009 – non-compliant Openspaces will transition to Homesteads and the maintenance fees will go from $75 to $95 per month. We will offer an educational discount to qualified educators on the new Homestead product. The discount amount will be the same as Private Regions, roughly 30%.
* July 2009 — the maintenance fees for Homesteads will go from $95 to $125 per month
This was exactly the solution that I had hoped for, and one that I think is fair to all concerned.
The cannons can still roar at
Beek Haven!
Half asleep I hear a voice 
