I’m so weak. I did it. Yes, I did auction myself, and you know what? I pretty much enjoyed it. It was a really fun event even if I really didn’t expect to have fun.

Why did I do it? Because at some point I stopped feeling the pressure, and could take a decision by myself, on my own will. Because most of the people there are my friends. Because I love them. Because many of my lovers were actually on the auction block, and Mistress Codie wanted to support them.

And you know what? I don’t regret it at all. Well, not yet at least.

So, let’s resume a few interesting highlights:

• Yours truely and Gabby Panacek got on the block together and went for 50K late in the auction to adorable Botgirl Questi. We got 37500 from the sale. Half of 12500 went to Locks of Love. And myself and Gabby donated 10K to Rosie’s cancer charity. We kept the rest and splitted it, for ourselves to decide what to do with it. We are dizzy in anticipation about what Botgirl will want from us, but it may be educative. I feel a bit like a sexy lab rat, but I guess we surely won’t be bored with what she has in store for us.
• We apparently got the highest bid apart lovely blog superstar Zoe Connolly that went for 50K too.
• I won the bid on my very admired queen of bloggers, ultimate neko and fellow FIC honcho, Vint Falken for a little 17K and I must say this is probably the best spent money in my SL. You should know I am worshipping Vint since I know her, over one year and a half now. I always admired her greatly, and now I totally pwn her for a whooping 24h, I could not be more thrilled! Since her requirement was no sex (bummer) I will make her do a couple of work related things for me, including helping me to promote my new sim Rouge and other related tasks.
• I won the bid on lovely TheDiva Rockin coupled with Kat Glimmer. Gawd only knows what I have in store for them! *grins devilishly*
• I won the bid on my own girlfriend Nadine Nozaki for around 5K (Crap Mariner you cheap bastard!)
• Vint Falken actually won the bid on my own submissive lover Rheta Shan… and offered her to me! <3
• Rheta then won the bid on Zoe Connolly… and offered her to me too! XD
• And Zoe Connolly won the bid on… yes, Botgirl Questi! Making it the most interesting Domme/Sub autority chain in history!
• I lost the bid on Veyron (it went up to more than 30K) but I cut a deal with Jene that I could borrow Vey for a couple of hours, which honestly delights me.

In conclusion, I can only retain the positive aspects. It was ages I didn’t spend quality time with either Rheta, Zoe, Nadine and Vint. Yes, It will eat up dozens of hours of my time, but you know what? I never have enough for my real good friends. Maybe this will help me set my priorities straight and spend some time with the people I truely love and admire.

Thanks to everyone for morally supporting me, commenting on Plurk and my last blog post, and all of those who IMed me inworld, you put a big bright smile on my face. Thanks to Alidar, Jessyka, Gabby, Marx and everyone that were there with me at the auction, seriously, I wouldn’t have had the guts if you weren’t there for me.

And what about me and Gabby’s hard time with our new Mistress Botgirl? Stay tuned for more.

I apologize to my faithful readers (they sure aren’t right now) but a massive server borkage led me to suspend my bloggage because of database corruption issues. I hope it will help that I did a clean upgrade to WordPress 2.6.1 and cleaned the most crappy plugins, upgraded the ones I kept. Flushed Ubernyms since the upgrade requires a bit more job and I’m pretty lazy nowdays, with the job kicking my ass and things moving faster than I imagined.

I’m pursuing Boudoir Rouge, I made a few very interesting shoots, 5 I guess, and I’m working on more to come. I have a tremendous documentation and updating job to do, tons of scripting, more marketing, and so on. Codie is gonna need to get busy with everything soon. I may slack on my regular tasks a bit for a while so bear with me, but I will keep this blog busy because theres a few huge things coming on for you lovelies.

I love you sweethearts, thanks for all the amazing support, all my loved ones. I worship you people like you have no idea.

That was a rough coming back home, I must admit. But what perfect vacations that was. That was so good just sticking my head out of the mud, being with my sweet family and just relaxing for the first time in 2 of the most agitated years of my life. Yes my very amazing SL has something to do with it, but of course you heard me whine enough about the work, the ex, and the rest, so I will spare it.

I feel much rested now, despite the freaking chaotic return home, the job overdose on the return (I had 5 major server crashes in 3 days), I feel much more rested and ready to kick it! Thanks to you all sweeties for the sweet come back home wishes and the moral support over the last year or two. Again, it’s you all that make my life fulfilled.

Much love.

As you people may know I pretty much needed vacations badly. So I’m going to my family. I will be back around the 27th of July, just a bit after my birthday. Please have fun at Rouge while I’m gone. Contact Gabby Panacek as she is in charge of the estate during my absence.

You can send me Twitter direct messages (DM) as I will get them on my mobile. I may also tweet back during my vacation. I may get inworld from time to time but don’t count too much on it!

It is repair time for Codie’s damaged brain. Just want to tell you how much I love you all. Your friendships means everything to me. Much Love.

…Codie is way too busy and tired to blog efficiently lately. I like being calm and rational, alert, and well rested while I post something, unless it is a rant. A long, ferocious tirade that ends on no constructive conclusion.

But this is not one of those posts. You around me all knows how crazy hectic it is for me lately. So many things happening in a short time, in both lives. I will spare you the RL crap apart to say im getting help for my lack of sleep and plan to rest more. And my SL is always more and more amazing as it goes, the love, the people, the fire of creativity burning holes into my soul… I am one fuckin lucky betch to have you all in my life, supporting me in such a caring way it leaves me weeping with bliss. I am humbled, honored, and devoid of words to tell how grateful I am to everyone around me. Thank you all, so much.

I’m rushing to finish the Boudoir Rouge series, about 25 left to do, and started scrambling again with the MachinimaCam codebase. We are in the last days of organizing the art exhibits at SL5B, task made maybe a little bit more heavy on my heart with all the surrounding drama. I will refrain of commenting furthermore until this event is done, not by fear or even by ethics, but because it drained me so fucking much I decided to go with the “Let’s do this and get on with it” attitude. Which is not exactly what I expected by volunteering for what is supposedly a resident ran event. Through all of this I managed to setup the Boudoir Rouge kiosk, and the China Red kiosk on the Asian Culture sim. Despite that little sadness in my heart, I will try and focus on the positive, the art, the people, and making sweet new friends.

In much more exciting new, something BIG is coming on my friends, read more in the next post.

This is a really interesting concept. Simple, clean, efficient way to read all your favorite news in a single mouseover. Alltop aggregates the last 5 entries of all interesting blogs/news outlets for a single subject. In the case that is of interest to me it’s called http://virtual.alltop.com.

A few things makes it different. It comes with all interesting feeds, mostly selected by AllTop.Com staff themselves. Then you can remove the feeds that are no interest to you. With what remains, a simple mouseover lets you overview the news quite nicely. Click it and you get the news directly from the blogger’s mouth.
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of AllTop.Com, and avid Twiteroo, my feed is now on this website. It now replaced my default page on my SL dedicated machine.

Yes, bloggers won round one. Not a huge victory but we got the much needed clarifications. As someone with a lifelong tradition of activism, having gone on several strikes (especially student ones), small victories are big victories when it comes to support our troops. Yes, we may not be happy about the content of those clarifications, but that’s what we asked for, and we got it. We can only congratulate ourselves, we did the impossible: make the Lindens listen to us. Now, forward to the next step in the battle.
As much as I’m a Linden fangirl, I’m also a very active SL socialite. I can see popular support for Linden Lab declining, following a few of their legal decisions in the last year.

I am still not going to comply to that policy until I get a letter from the Lindens. I’m not that much affected by the policy itself. But I still feel much for bloggers that must make their domain name comply.

One of the best roundup about the case IMOHO is by lurvely Cuddlefish Jacek Antonelli, speaking about it here. Many bloggers are rightfully angry about the Linden’s vague threat of banhammer for those who would ultimately not comply. As Jacek stated tho, they cannot substitute to the law.

I think to add to the ambient climate of anger is that since about 2 months, the grid is down not only everyday, but several times a day. We now have 3 waves of peak concurrency a day instead of 1, and the poor asset servers are suffering much strain.
Lindens, I love you guys. But you seriously need to get your game together, get better legal counseling and maybe stabilize this grid we love so much. You may be calling yourself a gaming company, but as Phil said, you guys are building a country. You are no ordinary service provider, despite what some thinks about it.

We create this world. We populate it. We are no ordinary customers, we are residents. More than that, we are citizens. We support you for making this world possible. But remember who makes you grow, and don’t bite the hands that feeds you. That means, us all.

One of the most panicking idea about the new Linden Labs guidelines is that thousands of bloggers may now have to remove infringing contents from their blog. But if you own a Wordpress self-hosted blog (maybe even a Wordpress.Com blog), NO NOT PANIC! Ubernyms is a very slick way of mass rewriting your blog without sweat.

Legal things better left to lawyers as far as I’m concerned, this article is NOT about HOW to make your blog compliant to the new policy. IANAL and I have no idea yet of all the legal implications. This article will focus on the technical aspect of installing Ubernyms and not on the legal aspects. For that you will have to read Linden Lab’s policies throughly, personally I don’t even know how it will affect bloggers. LL ain’t very good at communicating important decisions like that anyways, but that is another subject completely.

NOTE: Ubernyms may not be compatible with all Wordpress plugins. I heard it conflicted with other plugins. I CANNOT offer support for any aspect of it, as I do not develop Ubernyms. Consider this a primer to the matter, no more.

STEP 1 : Installing Ubernyms

This is the most tricky part, since the installation can be different on one host or another. So I cannot explain all of it, but will try to give it a shot.

Basically installation consists of:

1. Download Ubernyms for the right version of Wordpress
2. Put that .ZIP file into your /wp-content/plugins directory and unzip it on the server OR unzip the file locally and put the folder and all of it’s content in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory through FTP
3. Activate the plugin in your Plugins section of your Wordpress blog administration panel
4. INSTALL SignpostMarv Ubernym patch that fixes a bug with the HTML characters and UTF-8/accented characters. Go there and download the ubernyms-2.7.php.txt file and rename it to ubernyms.php. Then upload it via FTP in the Ubernyms plugin directory, and overwrite the old one.

STEP 2 : Configuring Ubernyms

Once installed, Ubernyms is delicious cake. And you must eat it.

1. Go into the Plugins section, and click on Ubernyms Configuration
2. Leave the upper configuration as is, it is usually defaulting a decent configuration
3. What is of utter interest for this case is the Replace Text option. Take a free slot under “Add new acronyms” and select Replace Text.
4. Enter a term in the Text field, and the replacement term in Definition

For example, let’s say that you want to replace the acronym “SL” for “SL ™”, you would have to put “SL” in the Text field and “SL ™” in the Description field (you should use the HTML code for the trademark sign in this case). SignpostMarv issued a patch fixing a problem with this, thanks to him for the leet patchage!

This plugin can replace any expression in your entire blog in a second, not only for replacements, you can link to internal or external URLs, replace acronyms by full length expressions, and so on. It’s the blogger’s best friend, you can take my word on that.

Hope this will calm down some lovely people I know that got very stressed up with their blog infringing on Linden Labs trademarks, thinking it would be required to correct every article posted by hand. This plugin removes much of the job. It still needs to be proven if it is really necessary. <3

My sweet friend Ana Lutetia was working a lot on her new blog lately, so she finally got her own domain name and started the real deal. Congrats to you, Ana.

I would like to add that Ana worked on an insanely good weblinks and SLURL lists pointing to a huge amount of very useful resources. Be sure to scour it and enjoy.

Secondlife URL List: http://analutetia.com/links/

Secondlife SLURL List: http://analutetia.com/slurl-in-world-stores-locations/

Oh no, not again. Sights.

Lovely Roxette Wise tagged me with yet-another-blog-meme, this time about books. Okay since I’m a good sport, let’s do this:

The Book Meme

1. Pick up the nearest book. (of at least 123 pages)
2. Open book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag five people!

(Goes and fetch the closest book…) Oh fuck. Which is a very old edition of Linux Unleashed. From 1995. Ugh. You really asked for it, this promises to be very dull. It came with Slackware 2.2.0 BTW. Yes, I’m that old.

So on page 123…

Notational Conventions Used to Describe Linux Commands

There is a set of accepted notational conventions used to describe, in a concise and consistent way, the correct syntax for any given Linux command. This specifies what options or parameters you must use, what options or parameters you can use or not use, and so on. Sometimes this set of conventions is used to give a complete and exhaustive listing of a command’s syntax, showing every possible command and parameter.

There, that’s even 4 sentences if we count the title.

Now the victims. Ugh. Sorry guys. I’m not tagging anyone this time, this brings too much hate. *grins*