Breaking down the walls of Second Life

A very busy week for Linden Lab, bringing on 551 new sims , nearly double the normal rate.
Amongst the new sims are 76 Gaeta mainland sims and a new Linden Lab Meeting area of 4 sims
This is the first week of the new Land Store which now offers almost instantaneous delivery of regions. Though it was functioning only for a couple of days
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A lot of activity this week ,Microsoft brought on 3 sims for yesterdays Launch of SQLServer 2008, Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008

But Dutch Bank ABN Amro cut back from 15 sims to 12.

Also this week 73 of the Gaeta Sims were named (30 up for auction). Continue reading →

253 new sims in the past week - 56 of these are the Dreamland ACS Opensims reported earlier this week - (there have been another 8 or so Dreamland ACS Sims added this week including the self-referential Anshe sim ).
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I think recent rumours that Anshe was cutting down on estates lands can be put to rest - 56 of the 96 new sims which just went online (within the past 24 hours) are Dreamland ACS opensims - all named with a spanish theme

(these rumours were reported on The SLUniverses Forums)
The regions are : Continue reading →

An interesting week, 76 of the new CSINY sims go off line - I wonder who paid the Tier (if any) on that short lived Grid presence - Corsica Continent is fleshed out further as 36 regions are named and finally the new Gaeta Continent is accessible (Just to the east of Corsica ) Its been visible on the map for several months but overnight LL made it accessible - The 48 regions all have Generic names (Gaeta_5_reg1 etc)

This now brings the total visible number of main grid regions to 18348 ,that is unique names, there are another 133 generic Linden sims with duplicate names bringing the grand total to 18481. The new 48 Gaeta sims are in the new list as two generic names. Continue reading →

Todays Headlines :
CSINY slips in another 4 sims, The Elves leave for far shores and potential naming conflict in the Gorean Region

243 new sims in the past week bringing the total of publicly visible main grid sims to 18249 including another 4 CSINY sims brought online in addition to last weeks 72. Continue reading →

More new Sim activity in the past week

398 new sims with 48 no longer on line , leaving 18068 visible Main Grid sims. 72 of the new sims are CSINY sims brought back online Continue reading →

In the next few weeks I’m going to be launching a second life service but here is a little taster

Currently there are 17709 publically visible Main Grid Sims - In the last week 299 new Sims came online and 84 went off line. Continue reading →

A matched pair from the National LolCatz Archives for 28th Nov 1990

Well Tyche has been a busy little beaver today commemorating Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee’s birthday as well as the swaring in of VP Gerald Ford . Followed off with tribute to Mariner 4 (1 day early …)
“i can has experiance”

“cat Fu PWND!!!”

“insert witty caption here?”

“i can has fried peanut butter and bananas?”

“i is in ur planetz, stealing ur solar system?”