In RL I am disabled. My service dog Buster and I have a very close relationship. He is attentive to my needs, and I love him dearly. Buster (American Bulldog) can pick up my cane and on his hind legs, he can return it into my hand. He knows how to retrieve anything that I drop and slip it back into my fingers. When I "space out" for a moment,...

Update on our Poor Girl's Kitchen goings on. I only started this in May but with a lot of luck and work managed to make it into something that might grow. Slow but steady sales, a few custom cakes and an event where we set up a table and sold cookies and brownies. Including one called Mad Spice named after our own Injun Mad. We're getting a permanent place to sell our things, in an old art gallery that's being rebuilt into actor's and photographers studios, going to have a little tea room there...

The theme of SL8B, The Magic of Second Life, got me to thinking of all the reasons I love SL. It's permeated with a kind a magic where dreams take shape, people pursue interests both realistic and fantastic, friends meet and get to know one another despite hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles of physical distance.

When I was new to SL, I wondered how I would fit into this wonderland. As a complete noob in those days, I had no clue about building, texturing, scripting, or any of...

At the tail end of August, an anonymous account joined SLU to post a bombshell of sorts in accusing the Justice League Unlimited of tracking and correlating IP addresses within Second Life — in clear violation of the terms of service — for the purpose of connecting different accounts to one another. A la the RedZone fiasco earlier in the year, the original thread about the JLU spawned a discussion ranging for over ten thousand posts and a second thread that is presently nearly five thousand posts...

I think I know what I'm doing. I'm an amateur developer with over a dozen shareware programs in public use, and through my years of computer usage and out of necessity, I've had to learn a lot more about them outside my normal field of studies.

So, sometimes people come to me for advice...

In my heart, I truly want to help them have a more "user-friendly" experience....