Omega Point

Aren’t all blogs supposed to have one of these after an extended absence of posts?

I’ve noted on several occassions that I only ever get to upgrade my computer when something very bad happens to it and I have to replace parts. This tends to happen once or twice a year, in my experience. As such, my desktop has now made the jump to PCI Express video — to my annoyance. While I can’t help but be impressed by the increased performance, I also can’t help but be annoyed that I was forced to do this at all.

Regardless, I am back for good this time. Really.

In my absence, it seems there’s been some long-awaited changes to the group tools, a topic I’m very eager to talk about shortly.

In LSL news, the changed() event has been fixed to handle cases in which a script is dropped on an object, as has llGetScriptName. Additional bugs have been discovered in changed() as well, lending further credence to my theory that it’s actually been an elaborate hoax on the part of Cory Linden all along. This time, it’s been the teleport and region-crossing detection functionality that’s broken. Scripters, make sure you put your essential scripts in root prims!

Welcome to Omega Point, a pretentiously-named blog about virtual worlds, the evolution of the metaverse, and the Singularity.

I’m Catherine Omega – and yes, that’s a pseudonym. It’s not much of a pseudonym though, if that helps. If you’re a user of Second Life, you might have heard my name, perhaps even favourably. If you’ve ever scripted anything in Second Life, you almost certainly know who I am. If there aren’t any other posts on this blog yet, you definitely do.

The first rule of learning about Catherine Omega: Don’t google Catherine Omega. Google is full of pernicious lies and misquotes. Really. That, and stuff that’s accurate and that you should ignore as well. There’s also a video. Don’t watch that either.

That said, I’m one of the oldest residents in Second Life. I co-founded and continue to edit the LSL Wiki, an accomplishment that means absolutely nothing outside the Second Life scripting community. Because of these two facts, I have at times been mistaken for an authority on certain topics, which is why I was nudged into starting a blog in the first place.

So here it is.