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January 2007
Yummy Photos
apollo [thearidians.org] Thu 25th @ 20:25 EST
apollo, aradia, photos, snapshots
My sweet Aradia has been adding some really cool photos to our gallery lately, which I think show off how cute and hot her lovely avatar is. Aradia always pays such wonderful attention to detail and finds the loveliest skins and outfits. She has a great eye for a photo too. I've been adding some photos myself, and one of them even reminded me to talk about how hard it can be to take thematic photos in SL. That's a topic for another post though.
Photos: The Thin Code Line
apollo [thearidians.org] Sun 7th @ 12:13 EST
apollo, photos, site features
As alluded to recently, I have been working on a super secret feature for this website, one that I think will really make it come alive. Work on this new feature has consumed essentially every possible moment of my free time for the entirety of this week up to and including the weekend until about five minutes before this post, but I feel that every moment was well spent.
May I present you with our Photos page. This, as you might have guessed, is an entirely home-rolled image gallery system with most of the expected features present: photo metadata in the form of names and descriptions, tags, and the ability to package up photos into sets. I think it's a cool system and I know it will only encourage me to take more snapshots now that I have somewhere to put them.
The system may change in subtle ways, for example as [Aradia and I] upload more photos and the tag density increases, each tag's percentage distribution number will probably disappear in favour of the more aesthetically pleasing "font size representation" method employed in other tag cloud rendering systems. I may add "infinite share grouping" if the current Photo Set system proves too limiting; sets are greedy and photos are loyal in my world you see.
But enough of this wordy rambling: go enjoy the photos! I will be uploading more soon and I'm sure Aradia will too.
A Real World Interlude
apollo [blog] Fri 5th @ 17:05 EST
apollo, ordinal malaprop, real world, site features, slurl, snowball technology
There is an interconnected set of difficulties associated with returning to work in the real world, which run roughly along these lines:
- I am naturally a "night person" and tend to gravitate to this kind of schedule when I have more than a few consecutive days off [work]
- Returning to work also means returning to something approaching a less vampiric schedule
- The combination of driving to work and working through the workday has a tendency to exacerbate any fatigue in one's system while simultaneously subtracting available hours from one's day
The end result of this situation is therefore variously a diminished availability of time to be exploring new places in Second Life and a diminished reserve of energy with which to focus on SL, which means that honestly, I haven't been in-world too much this week.
I did stop by Ordinal Enterprises in order to purchase the Snowball Technology that was previously highlighted, with the full intention of reviewing said technology, but sadly due to the reasons outlined previously I have not even unboxed the devices or indeed ascertained whether or not any such removal of packaging is necessary or required. I have, however, been working on various site features; they will come into effect during the course of the weekend and should enhance the reader experience greatly.
December 2006
Site Launch
apollo [thearidians.org] Sat 16th @ 20:38 EST
apollo, aradia, site launch
I, Apollo Aridian, Second Life resident, landowner, explorer, dragon and writer, am pleased to welcome you to this portal into in my SL world. Actually technically this is a portal into our SL world, a website for my real life and second life wife and I to write about our SL experiences, but since this is going to be a holiday surprise for Aradia she hasn't written anything here yet because right now she doesn't know that the site exists.
I know what you're thinking: if this is the site launch then why are there several posts before this one? Well, in order to add some meat to the bones of this site launch I have been making notes as events happened in SL and as soon as the site hosting went live I retroactively backdated them to their respective time periods.
This website will be infinitely more interesting once the surprise is revealed to my wonderful Aradia. She has some thoughtful insights and perspectives on the SL world and has a beautiful writing style to express them with. You can read back over the things I've written to get an idea of the way I write, but do please come and visit again to pick up on some Aradia magic.