I will be out of town until the 4th of January 2008 so if you really need to reach me you can through the following ways:

• send me a DM via Twitter and I will receive them through SMS on my mobile phone
• send me an email at cbredgrave.at.gmail.com
• for MachinimaCam support and inquiries please send your request by mail since my IMs are at risk of being capped

Thank you all and have a great winter vacation!

♥♥♥,

Codie

Dear readers,

Just a short post to wish you all a very sweet Xmas full of gifts and sweet attentions, and an awesome new year!

I ♥♥♥ you all very much.

Codie

Greg, that was an awesome early Xmas present.

Greg AKA Trax Hax, co-owner of the Avatrait art gallery, sent me a mail this afternoon. Included was this attachment and a reply from Ashlei (Linden, I presume), employee at the Linden Labs office in San Francisco.

Subject: Photos of Avatraits at Linden Lab!

Thank you AGAIN for sending these to us. We ♥♥♥ them! Here are photos of the avatraits in our San Francisco office.

Cheers,
Ashlei

I wont go in details on how annoying the 25 groups limitation in SecondLife is (yes, you can thank me, I won’t!). Most of you hate it. But groups is essential not only to receive spammage, but also especially to manage property and salespoint. As an aspiring land shark I feel this limitation is seriously borking my ambitions for total world domination. OK that was just a joke but if you own land, and is a member of a few clubs and interest groups, it doesn’t take long before you are capped.

Some important highlights about the problem:

• Group limitation is responsible for my own estimation of at least 50% of the alternate avatar creation. People get capped to 25 so they create useless alternates just to hold or manage more groups, which is a huge waste of technical resources. Also dramatically bork LL’s own statistics about the real number of people inworld.
• Group limitation may seem trivial, but some people told me it had to do with some technical limitation too, something about checking active group at each parcel border. It seem the limitation was 15 previously, and then raised to 25. But this is no reason for not wanting more, I think the “alternate avatar” problem eats up much more resources globally.
• There’s a JIRA entry regarding that limitation.

A bunch of DJs got fed up with the limitation and decided to write a petition to Linden Labs. They suggest to raise up the limit from 25 to 50. If you ask me, I could use up to 100! Please sign the petition avaliable here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/25_to_50/petition.html

UPDATE: On an even moar funny note, PetitionOnline.Com censored my avatar name. I tried signing the petition 3 times without success. I starred a letter in my name and it got through, I’m signature #731. Is “bastard” even a swear word? Fuck you PetitionOnline.Com! Really! Censoring someone’s name is NOT free expression!

One of the first big bug I noticed in SL, and that never really got corrected, is a bug that affected my style more than any other avatar I know of. It usually manifest itself by both my feet sinking into the floor where I’m standing, often down to my ankles.

My theories are:

a) my ass is too big and my body mass is superior, and it seems to be happening more often in higher altitudes, therefore it must be a gravity issue with the Havok physics engine

OR

b) I’m just way too hot and the floor is melting under my feet

Whatever the explanation is, it pisses me off, first because I look much smaller, secondly because it breaks my zen by not being very fashionable. Since I live in a skybox, I may as well swim in a pool of sweet ceramic. I wish I had some example pictures illustrating the bug, but very simply, my feet are just invisible and drowned in the floor up to my ankles.

But! I found an easy way to get rid of the nasty glitch when that happens, and it’s very simple too. I was reading the JIRA about similar issues while crossing sims. One mentioned a really easy way to fix it, sit on it. So I had nothing to loose by trying it, and it worked!

If your feet are sinking into the floor, just sit on something, anything, and stand up again. Tadaaa! Seems the physics engine recalculates your altitude and each time I tried it, the glitch disappeared.

Woot! Havok 0, Good looks 1

MachinimaCam sales have been a huge success. Customers have been generous of their time suggesting new features, reporting bugs, and generally being good to deal with. I sold enough MachinimaCam HUDs to finance the future developments, so I decided it was time to make a move for the community. Since MachinimaCam 0.12 is on the way to be shipped and much of the hardest part of developing the MCAPI framework is done, I want to give an early season gift to all of those who supported the development of this device.

Here is the deal:

1. From now on regular MachinimaCam price drops from 4000L$/4500L$ to 2000L. This is a permanent change and will be reflected inworld as well as OnRez and SLX.
2. Current MachinimaCam owners (before 18/12/2007 3:00PM LST) that bought it through SLX, OnRez, or in one of my stores gets 1 free MachinimaCam giveaway to ANY other avatar inworld. To request your extra giveaway, please send me a notecard entitled “MachinimaCam Giveaway” and write the following information: Your complete avatar name, where did you buy the device (SLX,OnRez,inworld), and the complete name of the avatar that will recieve the giveaway camera.
3. I am offering a FREE MachinimaCam to any educational organization that produce tutorial videos or do experimental machinima videos. To request a free unit, please send me a notecard entitled “MachinimaCam Educational” stating: Organisation name, organisation mission, website URL,email, and complete name of the avatar that should recieve the free unit.
4. Furthermore, I am giving away 5 FREE MachinimaCam devices to 5 already established machinima artists. Send me a notecard entitled “MachinimaCam Artist” and stating: Your complete avatar name, a list of your previous works, and a short description of your work. I will select the 5 best entries on Friday, 21st and send out the free boxed cameras to the winners.

I would ♥♥♥ to thanks the hundreds of customers that supported the development efforts on this device, and to tell them those efforts have not been vain. The new system will allow dozens of new effects to be added to the device, and extensions way beyond what was previously intended. Watch this blog for more news on the next release.

What can’t we find in a draft bin! I had this post prepared for the SL Elections months ago, but since I didn’t run for governorship, I forgot all about it and never posted it. So at popular demand (not!), I’m just posting this to make you laugh. BEWARE. If you can’t grasp sarcasm DO NOT READ or you will need an eyewash.

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Dear SLitizens,

I hereby declare my intentions to run as Governor for the upcoming SLections. My platform is one of change and common sense. I believe the whole community is backing me up on the key issues present in my platform.

If I get elected:

• I will expel all normal people from SecondLife, the “normies”. Liberated from them, we will be free to run around in PG areas naked and covered in red Jell-O.
• Everyone will be mandatory Ruthed. We are not far from it anyways.
• Age verification will require mugshot, DNA analysis and indexing, fingerprinting, urine and blood samples. After that, asking for Social Security number or Passport will sound petty.
• We must play safe! From now on every texture in SL will be styrofoam, to insure a kid safe environnement.
• I will personally go to visit any parent letting their kid play SecondLife on the main grid, and whoop their asses myself. You can complain SL is a spawn of hell, but if you cannot watch your kids, and expect SL to be used as a nanny, you are a fucking moron.
• Every form of violence is banned. Any offender will be shot repeatedly in the head in RL and the remains put in jail.
• 24/24 surveillance of every chat and IM. There is no place for privacy in a safe place. Surrender your rights now, resistance is futile.
• Daily spanking administered by Anshe Chung herself.
• SL will be moved to Sealand and declared as an independant prim banana republic, un-subjected to international RL law.
• Lynch mobs to hang all Goreans and Furries, but they will need to accept the animation first.
• The end of all fantasy, role playing, cyber sex. SecondLife is serious business and it is not a place to play or have fun.
• I will add many more new cool spiffy glitzy features to SL, neglect my community base and rise them against each other. What? I’m honest about it at least.
• Find contradictions in my platform? Good. Ambiguity and vagueness is the new rule from now on.
• Hate my platform? Excellent.

I didn’t blog about my Flickr posts much lately, I was on a little hiatus but lately I started doing a few sets again. Well this one I’m proud of so I’m posting to spread the fun. Hope you will like them, they were a lot of work. Thanks to Leticia, she’s been a very patient and awesome model, but I think she will agree it was worth it. Enjoy.

COMPLETE FLICKR SET (6 PICTURES)

I updated the old header banner with more cherry goodness and a banner rotation script, for your viewing pleasure. Will add moar when time comes. Also added Ubernyms, a Wordpress plug-in that automagically highlights common terms and add links or pictures. Pretty neato and will reduce my load when working on articles. Hope you will enjoy!

Woah I just noticed I was at 4th rank of SweetSecondLife.Com’s Community page. I have no idea how their algorithm works, seems to be based a lot on Technorati rankings, but not sure. Anyways seems I’m ranking higher than Torley, and I’m just behind Brutal Honesty and the Mean Girls. W00t! I’m the one woman army! LOL
http://sweetsecondlife.com/community