Archive for the 'Second Life' Category

Second Life: Wasteful?

December 5th, 2006

TechnologyInteresting exercise on how much power Second Life consumes. The end result is that a Second Life avatar is consuming the same amount of power as a Brazillian.

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Second Life: I’m A Loser

December 4th, 2006

Second LifeSo Second Life was proving to be rather surreal, and stupid, because didn’t have any money (and don’t want to pay real dollars for Linden ones). It’s a big problem, because most of the environments are malls and clubs where there’s stuff for sale, and I couldn’t get my hands on any of it. However, today I did manage to score $200 (yes!) - how this happened I’ll explain below.

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Second Life: The Quest For Cash

November 21st, 2006

Since I’m on vacation, I figured I should log into Second Life again. I still only have 4 dollars, and need more in order to rectify my current state of a virtual, broke homeless person.

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Second Life: I Have 4 Dollars

November 16th, 2006

Second LifeI logged into Second Life for the second time today, in order to solve my primary problem in this virtual world, which is I have no money. I do have another problem; I still don’t understand this virtual world or how it operates, but I’m hoping that my attempt to solve the first problem will in turn help solve the second.

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Second Life: Newbie Confusion

November 8th, 2006

Second LifeI’ve been hearing about this Second Life simulated world for a while now. A co-worker found it funny, so I decided to take the plunge and try it out. At the very least, I’ll get a few amusing blog posts out of it.

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