You have to hate it when CNN brings in people who are so obviously not qualified to talk about a subject and just leave the viewer dazed and confused as a result. This interview about net neutrality is my case in point. Net neutrality is only partially about bandwidth prioritization. So let’s try to see [...]
Something isn’t quite right in paradise. Linden Lab has been making a whole series of cuts to staff and programs over the past 6-8 months that are to a large measure a reduction of service and costs associated with the Second Life platform. All the while they are claiming “we are on sound financial footing”. [...]
You would think that a smart executive would know how to call a spade a spade and establish the right message in order to protect their brand from potential disintegration. Take for example the four ring circus between BP Oil, Transocean, Halliburton, and now the US Minerals Management Service. While the folks in Washington are [...]
After 18 months of using MS Office 2007 I can’t even begin to describe how much I loath and detest these Ribbons that Macrosquish has forced on everyone. Its not a matter of them being different but rather the fact that they are completely and utterly useless unless you have never been a poweruse of [...]
So apparently the SEC is now taking the bull by the horns and reviewing cases “as they come in” about new ponzi schemes (see Time’s news article). What strikes me as being so weird about this is that, for all the ‘new direction’ and safety and security of the financial industry that the SEC is [...]
So anyone that knows anything about my work with Rockcliffe University Consortium knows that the entire business model is both virtual and constructed within an environment called “Second Life“. Recently there have been a whole pile of competitors to the Second Life Grid not to mention the numerous other virtual world platforms that are available [...]