Omega Point

The LSL Wiki finds a new home

After a cou­ple months of fight­ing to retrieve data from my ISP, argu­ing about whether or not I had the right to trans­fer the LSLwiki.com domain name — and finally buy­ing a new one — fol­lowed by a cou­ple days’ worth of mess­ing about with MySQL, I’m pleased to say the LSL Wiki has returned, in editable, “cur­rent” form. Your old logins and pass­words work.

Every­thing is the way it was at the moment the wiki went down. Nothing’s changed, we just wanted to get an editable wiki back up, but we have some fixes and addons to be rolled out over the next cou­ple of weeks.

One catch though: this time, it’s at LSLwiki.net. I’ve put up redi­rects at the old site at LSLwiki.com, but it remains to be seen whether or not I’ll ever be able to recover that domain and put it to more use­ful… use.

This announce­ment comes right on the heels of Milo Linden’s “ohhh yeah­hhh…” forum post:

Cur­rently on the aditi beta grid.

llSetLinkTexture(integer link_pos, string tex­ture, inte­ger face)
Sets the tex­ture of face for link_pos

llSetLinkPrimitiveParams(integer linknum­ber, list rules)
Set prim­i­tive para­me­ters for linknum­ber based on rules.

Yes! It’s about time! (By which I mean, “thank you for the con­tin­ued steady ful­fill­ment of the userbase’s most desired wishes, Lin­den Lab.”) These are two of the biggest “miss­ing func­tions” in LSL. With their addi­tion, scripters can update all prims in an object with one script instead of a hun­dred or more.

Now, let’s get to work updat­ing this thing!

Northern Voice 2007: Day 1 — MooseCamp

So I’m at North­ern Voice this week­end! Friday’s agenda is Moose­Camp: the “uncon­fer­ence”. This morn­ing, peo­ple seemed inter­ested in a ses­sion about Sec­ond Life, so I signed up to run one after lunch. Now even more blog­gers know about Gore­ans, fur­ries and lag. Mis­sion accom­plished.
Today’s high­lights included:

1. Real­iz­ing that it’s at the main Point Grey cam­pus of UBC, not Rob­son Square this year… about 10 min­utes before I left.
2. This guy. Jeremy David runs “Choose my Adven­ture”, a blog where his read­ers get to tell him what to do. His poll asks, “Should I wear my Dragon Cos­tume at the Blog­ging Con­fer­ence?” The answer was clearly yes.
3. Meet­ing more peo­ple who had never used SL but who had heard of it than I ever had before in my life. There wasn’t any “so, it’s like Active Worlds/The Palace/The Sims, right?” And nobody seemed to be aware of it because “you can make money in Sec­ond Life”, they seemed to have heard about it because it’s an online com­mu­nity where you can do any­thing you want. That was… novel.

Tomor­row I’ll be doing a more for­mal talk on vir­tual worlds and com­mu­ni­ties along with Jeff Hen­shaw, exec­u­tive pro­ducer for Xbox Dig­i­tal Enter­tain­ment. I’m going to make it all up.

To My Web 2.0 Valentine…

This is what we came up with at Social Sig­nal for Valentine’s Day this year. It’s the per­fect way to say “I love you” to that spe­cial some­one with 800 pic­tures on Flickr. See? It’s not such a bad hol­i­day after all!

Maki Mac Mitt!

Fear not, cit­i­zens! To bet­ter help me fight crime do my new job, I got a new Mac­Book Pro for work. It’s pretty shiny. And scratch­able, by the looks of things. To pro­tect its fin­ish and main­tain a sharp, pro­fes­sional image for meet­ings, it’s impor­tant to always travel with the Mac­Book secured inside a durable, padded sleeve. Also, the sleeve should have pic­tures of sushi on it.

Say it with me: “awwwww!”

Want your own? I ordered this spiffy, custom-made sleeve from Salty­gal on Etsy.com. She makes super-cool stuff, and for very afford­able prices. I’m going to order more. At ran­dom. It’ll be good.

(I’d also like to note that while the above photo was posed, it was not actu­ally staged. I really was –and con­tinue to be– that excited.)

Correct Home/End functionality in Firefox on Mac OSX

How cool is this? Jim Menden­hall at Starry Hope offers some help to us Mac Switch­ers. Long one of the top Google results for “osx home end”, Jim devel­oped a small app to replace the Mac’s default key behav­ior with that of every other win­dow­ing sys­tem ever. (That’s right, nit­pick­ers. Ever.) Unfor­tu­nately, it didn’t work in Fire­fox… until now!

It’s still in beta, and the only way to grab a copy is to bug Jim, but I’m using it and it works great. He’s still work­ing on adding sup­port for Shift-Home/Shift-End text selec­tion, but it’s already made edit­ing text fields in web pages so much eas­ier. Thanks, Jim!