My apologies to everyone!

It has been a real shock when I realized I missed the last email from Linden Labs stating that they are removing the sims from the grid, though not deleting them yet, until the final outstanding funds are paid.  I was not expecting this to happen until the end of January, but for reasons unknown, [...]

A recession in Second Life?

Can we be heading into a recession in Second Life? Seems to me the indicators all show towards some tough times coming up.  My reasons for this suggestion would be:
1. Large unique product designers complain of a massive slowdown in sales,
2. land parcel sales are stale stale stale,
3. and the general resident’s outlook is pessimistic [...]

Second Life is down, again…

Hehehe, maybe I should just haul up last week’s post and report it, he Would save us the trouble of blogging about it … yet again. So the central database in Second Life has hit the cr*pper. Again. This just hit me – Linden Labs may as well bring [...]

Thanks Philip…

Thanks for taking all that resistance during 1999 and the early 2000’s and persisting with your vision to build a Second Life for everyone. Thanks for resisting a complete collapse in 2003 and pushing forward to that amazing explosion in 2006. Thanks for believing that your weird management styles and internal working methods [...]

Second Life problems… et al

Wow, what a start to our weekend! Nothing unusual some of you would say But hey, I wanted to address two things quickly and then add my own comments about what I think has been happening in SL, related to my personal experiences though.
Firstly, though I’ve hinted in posts or comments, a [...]

New CEO for Second Life… Errrr, welcome?

Out with the old in with the new, Philip replaced by ‘M’ as CEO of Second Life.

Second Life grid down due to routing problems… again

I just posted the following issue in the JIRA, SVC-2077, as I noticed a disparity with LL billing. It simply was this, they apologise time and time again for service disruptions, which is nice, but their billing system never seems to experience the same problems So here is my call to [...]

A heart felt thank you to all supporters of Bishara Resorts

After seeing the impact of VAT charges on my personal costs in sustaining Bishara Resorts, the support from those who heard of my situation or who read the issues here in our blog, has been fantastic! Emails and IMs of support, some donations even, have been pouring in over the last few days and [...]